Patient/customer care (both direct and indirect) 1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the psychology service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the persons care. The main clinical speciality for this post is severe asthma. 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. 5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. 6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, e.g. during attendance at asthma or upper airway MDT ward rounds. 7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the psychology service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. 8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. 9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. 10. To develop, deliver and facilitate psych-education talks including groups. Communication 1. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. 2. To liaise closely with multi-professional colleagues within the appropriate services and teams. 3. To liaise closely with respiratory physicians and clinical specialist professionals e.g. speech and language therapist for the management of patients. People management 1. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from the lead psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. 2. To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of psychology and the amount and nature of such experience to be agreed with professional and operational leads. 3. To develop skills in professional teaching, training and supervision, in line with experience, as required, and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate. 4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists, as appropriate, and to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists, as appropriate. 5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychology. 6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. 7. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and therapy team lead. Policy and Service Development 1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of professional, organisational and operational policies and services, as appropriate, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. 2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. 3. To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of Directorate policies and procedures, as appropriate. 4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists or other therapy staff, as appropriate. 5. As negotiated and within time constraints, the post holder will be expected to attend relevant clinical meetings within and outside the service, as appropriate. 6. The post holder will be required to attend the regular clinical and professional meetings of the psychology service and other directorate meetings, as appropriate e.g. business, therapy team, and directorate governance and safety meetings. 7. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional and clinical supervision, appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of psychology and related disciplines. 8. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. 9. To have an individual responsibility for adherence to Trust policies, procedures and completion of mandatory training. Research and development 1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. 2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, as required. 3. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the psychology and therapy team, or Rehab and Therapies Directorate, as required. 4. To familiarise themselves with, and to comply with, the Trusts requirements on research governance. 5. To provide advice and support where appropriate to medical, nursing or allied health professionals engaging in research related to the psychological care of patients and their families. 6. To provide specialist advice and training to teaching programmes that support the multi-disciplinary teams CPD and learning regarding the psychological care of patients, as appropriate. Information management 1. To maintain daily statistical records in Epic (EPR), and assist in formulating statistical reports 2. The post holder will engage in relevant computer and IT training as required and complete Information Governance mandatory training. 3. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording e.g. electronic document management system and electronic patient record, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, Health and Care Professions Council, and Trust policies and procedures. 4. To abide by the Trusts Core behaviours for staff and all other Trust policies, codes and practices including standing financial instructions, research governance, clinical governance, patient and public involvement, codes and practices, and health and safety.