Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Neuro-Rehab
We are looking to appoint a highly motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to our forward-thinking and dedicated MDT, which comprises occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, clinical neuropsychologists, rehab assistants, and nurses. This is a new post and an exciting opportunity following new investment and expansion of the team. You will be part of a dynamic team, committed to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working. We provide rehab to adults with a broad range of neurological conditions. You will join a small, supportive team of psychologists in the Adult Community Physical Health Directorate with a shared interest in improving outcomes for patients with long-term conditions. There will be regular opportunities for collegiate support and access to CPD and training opportunities. The postholder will receive specialist neuropsychology supervision. Furthermore, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to receive training in offering reflective practice since staff support is one of the directorate's high priorities.
Main duties of the job
Under supervision of senior practitioner psychologists, the post holder will work collaboratively with hospital and community multidisciplinary teams to provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of Neuro-rehabilitation Service clients and other people referred to the 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 clients' care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients' problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
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.
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.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
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.
To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care.
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager).
To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training, and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work as appropriate.
To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant clinical psychologists.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of neuropsychology, as accredited by the BPS.
* HPC registration.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
* At least 18 months experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a wide variety of neurological deficits across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and inpatient.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
Skills and Knowledge
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional special needs, etc).
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and group therapy.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Head of Psychological Therapies, ACPH Directorate
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