Senior Clinical Psychologist (Migraine)

<h2>Overview</h2> <p> </p> <p><strong>Post Title: </strong></p> <p> Senior Clinical Psychologist (Migraine)</p> <p><strong>Post Status: </strong></p> <p>Permanent Contract</p> <p><strong>Department </strong></p> <p>Neuro Psychology </p> <p><strong>Location: </strong></p> <p>Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9  </p> <p><strong>Reports to: </strong></p> <p>The Senior Psychologist will report to the Head of Department of Psychology and will operate within a Psychology Department structure as a professional team member.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Salary: </strong></p> <p>Appointment will be made on (€98,503 - <strong>€115,784 LSI</strong>) at a point in line with Government pay policy.  </p> <p><strong>Hours of work:  </strong></p> <p>Part Time - 18.5 hours per week</p> <p><strong>Closing Date: </strong></p> <p><strong>12 Noon on 7/10/2025</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Please note the hospital reserves the right to close the competition early should a substantial number of applications be received.</strong></p> <p> </p> <h1>The Senior Psychologist for Migraine will be a member of the Department of Psychology.</h1> <p> </p> <p>The post-holder will be expected to assist the Principal Clinical Psychologist/Head of Department to develop and manage the psychology services in within the hospital and to provide supervision and development opportunities for all staff and students within the service. </p> <p> </p> <h1>The clinical duties will include providing a psychology service to the Migraine service and patients directed to this service. This involves close working relationship with Neurology and Community support services (MAI).</h1> <h1> </h1> <h1>It is an exciting opportunity to develop this growing specialist area within psychology and to develop psychological services for this vulnerable client group in collaboration with the leading community/patient advocacy service.</h1> <p> </p> <p>The aim of the Psychology role is to help address aspects of a person’s life experiences that may be contributing to their head pain; to help a person understand more about their pain; and develop ways of managing that are additional to or in place of medical management. Migraine and other headache conditions can interfere with several important areas of an individual’s life and can make everyday life and functioning very challenging. This can include helping patients in:</p> <p> </p> <p>Identifying migraine/head pain triggers and supporting with making lifestyle changes.</p> <p> </p> <p>Learning more about the relationship between stress and pain. This includes exploring how thoughts, feelings and behaviour are linked to pain </p> <p> </p> <p>Learning additional ways of coping with migraine and head pain.</p> <p> </p> <p>Learning how to manage and cope with difficult emotions.</p> <p> </p> <p>Participating and facilitating group programmes.</p> <p> </p> <p>Helping to find ways of reconnecting with what and who is important to you in your life.</p> <p> </p> <p>Providing links to helpful resources; How can I find out more.</p> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>To ensure the provision of the highest standard of psychological practice and care to patients of Beaumont Hospital, and to work with the Principal Clinical Psychologist to ensure that clinical risk management practices and clinical audit form the basis of the standards of practice. </li> <p> </p> <li>To provide psychology services to patients of Beaumont Hospital with a special interest in the long-term psychological consequences of Migraine.</li> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>To attend the appropriate team meetings and provide assessments and treatments for the cognitive, behavioural and emotional consequences of pain in collaboration with multi-disciplinary team members and relevant community services.</li> <p> </p> <li>To provide ongoing supervision for the basic and trainee grades of staff, in accordance with guidelines as defined by the Psychology Society of Ireland. S/he may be responsible for the management of other staff as assigned by the Head of Department;</li> <p> </p> <li>To undertake assessment, appropriate therapy interventions and preventative programmes and to liaise and co-ordinate with relevant professional staff in determining treatment options for clients.</li> <p> </p> <li>To provide professional reports and information to other professional staff and such other reports as appropriate.</li> <p> </p> <li>To participate actively in the ongoing training, lecturing, development and continuing education of staff and to establish links with the educational institutions with regard to under and post graduate training as appropriate.</li> <p> </p> <li>To undertake research in psychology and to participate in the specialised research interests of the staff in the department and clinical service and to link with the ongoing research in Beaumont Hospital as relevant.</li> <p> </p> <li>To provide a psychology service in line with Psychology Department service plans