Clinical Responsibilities:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the teams based on the appropriate use, interpretations, and integration of complex data from various 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.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of service users' problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the person's problems, employing methods based on evidence of efficacy across a full range of care settings.
3. To work daily in face-to-face individual, family, and/or group therapy settings with service users presenting with complex and distressing psychological and neuropsychological problems, including issues associated with acquired brain injury, stroke, post-traumatic stress, recovery, and adjustment.
4. To implement a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations based on different explanatory models while maintaining various provisional hypotheses.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists), contributing directly to service users' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plans.
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care for the benefit of all users of the service across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and provide advice to other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
10. To coordinate, where appropriate, the intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, including service users, their carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care.
11. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of service users under their care and monitor progress during both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision:
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice HCPC/NMC, BPS/BABCP & Trust guidelines.
2. To gain wider post-qualification knowledge, skills, and experience through further experience and specialist supervision in specific psychological approaches and/or with particular service user groups supported by case presentations, group supervision, and short courses as part of an agreed personal development plan.
3. To provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate.
4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant psychologists where appropriate.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.
6. To provide advice, consultation, and training to staff (including both psychologists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
7. Clinical Psychologists to attend supervisor training in preparation for becoming a supervisor for the DClinPsy Training Courses.
Management, Recruitment, Policy, and Service Development:
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services 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 organizational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, where appropriate, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of assistant psychologists.
5. To implement the policies and propose changes to working practices/procedures concerning professional good practice for the provision of psychological/therapy services as applicable to the service in order to ensure the highest standards of service to the service user group.
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