Communication & Working Relationships Clients family and others To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with service users with a mental health, learning disability, challenging behaviour and/or personality disorder who may have specific difficulties in understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed. Multidisciplinary team colleagues To work closely, collaboratively and supportively with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated psychological consultation and intervention service on a day to day basis. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice. Senior managers & professional staff To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers in the secure directorate to foster a positive approach to the inpatient service and to enable effective negotiation. Planning & Organisation The psychology service To plan and organise the work of the psychology provision in the inpatient service and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within the commissioned service to DPT, to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities. The multi-disciplinary service To provide psychology leadership to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of Support to Succeed.The directorate To work as part of the psychology management structure and contribute to the planning and implementation of service developments. Responsibility for Patient Care, Treatment and Therapy Assessment & intervention To provide expert psychological assessment (including risk assessment) and group / individual and support interventions, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of service users, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues. Consultation & guidance To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of people with complex presentations and offending behaviour, other service providers, and relevant other agencies (e.g. Approved Premises). Policy, Service, Research & Development Responsibility The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines. Supervision and line management structures are in place to support the implementation of Trust policy and professional practice guidelines. Policy & service To interpret and contribute to the development of policies and procedures for the provision of psychological consultation and intervention service in inpatient and DPT. R and D / audit To contribute to and support the organisation of the Rand D activities of the psychology service, and to undertake a research programme as agreed. To ensure all psychology staff participate in appropriate audit and evaluation of outcomes of the psychology service. Responsibility for Finance, Equipment & Other Resources The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Devon Partnership NHS Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines. To interpret and develop policies and procedures for the provision of psychology services. Provide clinical leadership in the continual development and provision of excellence across the service. Carry out duties in relation to local, regional and national initiatives in developing services. Work alongside other clinicians in the team and within other appropriate agencies, as well as with service users, families and carers, to initiate and implement service developments. Responsible for identifying and proposing strategic service improvements. Contribute to operational planning and advise senior colleagues on those aspects of the service that may need addressing at a strategic level. Involvement in the development of local systems and process that ensure the implementation of Trust policies. Contribute to clinical governance arrangements in order to ensure the quality of the service provided; this will include ensuring performance targets are met to provide high quality care. Hold responsibility for implementing clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal and for facilitating the highest performance of the team, with responsibility for systematic governance of the clinical practice of the team and implementation of the organisations clinical governance agenda. Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership & Management Management Responsible for line management of allocated staff as part of the psychology department structure. Leadership & supervision To provide leadership as a qualified psychologist and to professionally supervise psychology staff, trainees, assistants and volunteers as required. To ensure high quality consultation, individual / group intervention and joint working within the Support to Succeed service. To provide psychology leadership in the integrated multi-professional service. Information Resources & Administrative Duties To maintain accurate records in accordance with local and professional guidance. To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication. Any Other Specific Tasks Required To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by psychologists is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership. To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.