Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the 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 structures observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To develop psychological formulations 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 develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential Criteria
1. Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
2. Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
3. Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
Desirable Criteria
1. Relevant post-doctoral training.
2. Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS).
Experience
Essential Criteria
1. Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment, across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
2. Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course, and the range of clinical severity, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
3. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the delivery of psychological care and treatment.
4. Experience of teaching, training, and clinical supervision.
5. Experience of working in a physical health care, and in a hospital setting.
Desirable Criteria
1. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
2. Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
3. Experience of working within gastroenterology services.
Skills & Abilities
Essential Criteria
1. Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
2. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
3. Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning. Planning and organising skills for caseload management. Skills in self-management, including time management.
4. Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
5. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance.
6. Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
7. Advanced IT and keyboard skills.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential Criteria
1. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
2. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
3. High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
4. Expert knowledge of clinical health psychology.
Desirable Criteria
1. Specialist knowledge of working with this client group.
2. Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this service user group.
3. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group and the setting, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
Other
Essential Criteria
1. Positive approach to older people, and working with diversity and difference.
2. Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
3. Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
4. Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
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