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Job overview

This new role is a new and exciting opportunity to develop, alongside experienced pain MDT colleagues, a psychological service for individuals with complex pain needs across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The Trust brings together three main hospital sites - Basildon, Broomfield, Southend and a number of satellite hospital sites including Orsett

Each have their own psychological staff but there is now the opportunity to develop a team across the area continuing to offer evidence based individual work and our extremely successful multidisciplinary pain management programme

You will be an important member of the multidisciplinary pain service who have a long history of providing care within a psychological frame in collaboration with the entire team

This is an opportunity to develop within the role under the supervision of senior experienced colleagues delivering psychological treatments for people with complex pain presentations as part of a multidisciplinary team approach

Your ongoing contribution to service delivery and personal and professional development will be supported by the management team within the pain service and the hospital based psychological therapies service

We are looking for a fully accredited and creative individual with an interest in working within a pain service in secondary care

You will participate in delivering pain management programs and individual psychological interventions

So, if this sounds like the role for you - please apply today

Main duties of the job

You will be providing psychological screening, psychosocial information, assessment and treatment to patients and their families based across four MSE Pain Relief Services, outpatient and inpatient.

You will be assisting in providing consultation on complex psychological issues to the wider multidisciplinary team by involvement in relevant multi-disciplinary forums.

You will provide a coherent approach to Pain Management within the service.

You will provide input with clinical autonomy, under the supervision of senior staff, and to work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of staff/patients from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress