Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
* To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to the locality team 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 client's care.
* To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
* To use psychological formulations to develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, and to use these plans to inform and lead the work of non-psychology members of the team.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
* 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 in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
* To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Physical effort - ability to exert moderate physical effort during a session. Ability to sit for extended periods.
* Doctorate level training in clinical / counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS and HCPC.
* Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
* Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist.
* Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist at post-qualification and specialist level.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of adult mental health care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient setting.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups (including people with psychosis and people with complex PTSD), across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
* Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, psychological aspects of physical health difficulties, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychological medicine.
* Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health.
Desirable criteria
* Undertaken relevant post-doctoral training in working with clients with complex psychological needs.
* Undertaken further training in specialised area: EMDR, CBT, CBTp, CBTpd, CAT, DBT, neuropsychology, SFT, systemic therapy.
* Evidence of further training in leadership and management.
* Experience of delivering supervision to non-psychology MDT staff.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illness within a secondary care setting.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* High-level knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment of adults.
* High-level knowledge and skills in working with carers.
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
* High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
* You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
* This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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