As a lead specialist, you will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of your own specialist caseload of clients with a variety of complex problems, including mental ill-health, behaviours that challenge, personality difficulties, autism spectrum disorders, and neurological problems. This role particularly includes working with their families and paid carers in a wide range of independent sector provision.
Your responsibilities include providing, developing, and managing highly specialist psychological interventions to clients and communicating psychological formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues. You will also be responsible for planning, organizing, auditing, and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of a specialist psychology service within the multidisciplinary CLDT.
As the postholder, you are expected to develop specialist responsibilities and provide leadership from a psychological perspective on a specific area of expertise that balances your experience, interests, and the needs of the service. You will provide professional support, guidance, and clinical supervision to other clinical psychology staff (clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, and undergraduate placement students) in the CLDT and in other parts of the service as required by their level of experience.
You will be responsible for planning, delivering, and providing clinical supervision for a specialist clinical training placement for trainees on the postgraduate Doctoral Courses in Clinical Psychology from the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. Additionally, you will provide specialist consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other non-psychology staff within the CLDT on psychological understanding, interventions, and evaluations.
Your role also includes developing and delivering teaching on psychological work and care for trainee clinical psychologists and qualified members of clinical psychology and other professions in Livewell Southwest. You will initiate and maintain research and development projects relevant to furthering both clinical knowledge and service evaluation and delivery. You are expected to work within the Guidelines for Professional Practice of the Health & Care Professions Council and the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology, adhering to the policies and procedures of Livewell Southwest.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
1. Clinical Skills
2. Policy and Service Development
3. Human Resources
4. Research and Development
5. Information Technology
To possess and practice a high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and life-threatening behaviour can be expected. You will manage an appropriate caseload while negotiating and managing waiting lists for assessment and treatment, ensuring steady movement of clients through the stages of referral, assessment, treatment, and discharge.
To conduct and supervise research and audits, collaborating with the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter in setting up and conducting Doctoral level long-term research projects on learning disability issues, and providing teaching. You will be responsible for maintaining appropriate service statistics and records of work within the requirements of policies covering the CLDT.
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