Main duties and responsibilities:
· Be responsible to undertake line management supervision, appraisals, sickness & absence reviews, produce performance management frameworks for the allocated Assistant Psychologists
· To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients 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 patient’s, family members and others involved in the patient’s care.
· To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and 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, staff, 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 patient’s whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
· To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
· To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
· To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care
· To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists
· To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as required
· To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate
· 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
· To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing
· As negotiated and within time constraints, the post holder will be expected to attend relevant clinical meetings for individual patients
· The post holder will be required to attend and contribute to professional meetings
· To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members
· To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision
· To familiarise themselves with, and to comply with requirements on research governance
· The post holder will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data and provide this to the Head of Therapies when necessary
The salary for the Registered Psychologist is negotiable and can be discussed at the interview stage.
