Clinical Psychologist – Bath Centre for Pain Services: Sponsorship Available

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Do you value enabling people to live well in the presence of the challenges life presents them?

The Bath Centre for Pain Services (BCPS) provides treatment for people of all ages (children to older adults) from across the UK and internationally, with all types of complex chronic pain. We offer a range of therapeutic interventions to enable people to lead a satisfying & good life in the presence of their ongoing pain, often providing people with life changing experiences.

We are a truly interdisciplinary team. Our treatment model is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which gives a foundation for creativity and innovation in therapy delivery.

This post will suit a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist or someone with experience wanting to develop ACT skills. You will benefit from a full induction where you will learn about chronic pain & Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

To be happy in this post you will be a person who enjoys working in a team committed to high impact, evidence based treatment, likes a varied day, enjoy a clinical challenge and welcome working alongside supportive and skilled colleagues.

Quote from Band 7 Clinical Psychologist

“When I started at BCPS I felt welcomed and supported by everyone in the highly experienced interdisciplinary team. The clinical work is varied and interesting, and there is ample opportunity for developing clinical skills while working with people across the age range in such a collaborative environment”.

Main duties of the job

Our Service users are a diverse population apart from their shared experience of chronic pain. We are working towards being a fully inclusive & diverse clinical team and actively encourage applicants from all groups.

We have a band 7 Clinical Psychology post which has a breadth of clinical work rarely found. While all our service users have chronic pain most people treated have additional physical and mental health needs and we treat people of all ages.

Our well established National Specialist Service has been relocated to a new building specifically designed for us, giving us a lovely place to work. We are the only Chronic Pain Service in the UK able to treat people of all ages with highly complex chronic pain associated disability who requires care to be able to participate in treatment.

The whole BCPS team are committed to research and regularly publish and present at scientific meetings. We have a education programme that including study days for professional and hosting ‘Pain Forum’ – a quarterly open lecture. There are weekly Clinical Development meetings for the team, Clinical Supervision and Psychology meetings. An annual training week is also provided for the Team with external trainers working with us to develop clinical skill further.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology appropriate for HCPC registration

Desirable

  • Further training in Research/ACT/Family or systemic therapy or behavioural therapies
  • Experience working in chronic pain services

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in NHS
  • Experience working with people across the lifespan including children

Desirable

  • Line management experience
  • Service development experience
  • Experience data collection, lit searching and data analysis
  • Experience providing therapy to children/young people and families

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 16 November 2026

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