Homerton University Hospital Jobs – Highly Specialist Psychologist in Sheffield, UK

Overview

Position Title:Highly Specialist Psychologist

Company:Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust

Location:Sheffield, UK

Job Description:

The Pain Service is an award winning psychology/therapy led interdisciplinary team providing high quality pain management services to people in Hackney living with persistent pain. The ME/CFS Service was set up in 2018 to work with patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)

Responsibilities:

• This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical, health or counselling psychologist with experience of working with clients with long term health conditions, to join a dynamic team of psychologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurse specialist, pharmacist and consultant working across both services.
• With support from psychology, the teams work in a psychologically informed way and the multi-disciplinary teams are trained to use an acceptance and commitment framework to support our patients to live well even in the presence of pain and ME/CFS. Psychological therapy is both highly valued and well-established within the teams and the successful applicant would work as a member of a team of psychologists who are skilled in a range of approaches including ACT, CBT, mindfulness and compassion focused approaches.

Requirements:

• Approachable team player, this is a small team who support each other to get the job done, we’re looking for an individual who fits with this culture
• An ability to work independently and manage time effectively while working to deadlines
• Strong skills in network design and documentation
• Experienced configuring and managing switches, routers, wireless, firewalls, IPS, NAC, NMS devices across physical, virtual and cloud estates
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to lead technical teams and mentor junior engineers
• Flexible approach to working hours with some projects requiring out of hours work to minimise disruption in a 24/7 healthcare environment, participation in an on call team rota