Clinical​/Counselling​/Health Psychologist in Chronic Pain

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The closing date is 15 March 2026

To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to the Chronic Pain Service, working alongside the multidisciplinary teams to address the psychological needs of these patient groups. To manage and hold clinical responsibility for a specialist caseload and provide highly specialist assessment and interventions focusing on identifying and treating psychological issues associated with these health challenges.

To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training as appropriate to parents/carers and colleagues within the Service and to work effectively within the multi‑disciplinary health team. To provide clinical and/or research supervision to less experienced psychologists. To contribute to service evaluation, audit, research and policy development. To promote psychological thinking in collaboration with MDT colleagues and ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

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WORCESTERSHIRE ACUTE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST

JOB DESCRIPTION

Pay Band: 7

Hours: 30 hours (0.8 WTE)

Contract:
Permanent

Location / Department:
Pain and Anaesthetics

Reports to:
Principal Psychologist

Key Working Relationships:
Patients and their families/carers, MDT colleagues, partner agencies including VSO, charities and social care

Job Purpose:

• Working under the overall leadership of the Principal Psychologist to provide high quality, specialist applied psychology alongside the chronic pain team at the hospital.
• Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to clients with complex psychological difficulties resulting from their physical health difficulties.
• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
• To promote at all times a positive image of people with psychological difficulties resulting from their physical health difficulties.
• To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
• Under the guidance and supervision of the Principal Psychologist and Lead Consultant Psychologist and in line with service context to:
• Exercise supervisory responsibility for other psychological therapists (e.g. Trainee Applied Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Counsellors).
• Support multi‑disciplinary training and development.
• Support service audit and development.
• Support and encourage service evaluation and research.
• Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change.

Key Duties:

Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact

Working under the overall leadership of Trust Lead Consultant Psychologist to provide specialist psychological assessment of…