Principal Psychologist - Llanelli
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | Llanelli, SA15 2DP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0462-24-0034 |
Summary
MAIN PURPOSE To provide strategic, professional leadership to the multi/inter disciplinary team within the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Brainkind, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic response to service need. To interpret professional policies, ensuring that the services operate at the highest level of quality and current best practice. Research and development will be a major responsibility as will taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service system as a whole. To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with neuropsychological clinical practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to clinical neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and other clinicians within BIRT. To provide clinical leadership and direction for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Brainkind service across a designated service, including the clinical leadership of the multi/inter disciplinary team and support worker staff within designated service and other related BIRT services in the region. MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES To ensure the development of high quality, innovative, and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice within BIRT. To support the Service Manager/Registered Manager/Regional Manager in all aspects of managing the service. To function as a member of the Clinical Executive of consultant clinicians within Brainkind. To externally represent and promote Brainkinds approach to psychology. To work with the service and regional managers to strategically promote appropriate referrals to the service, with development of clinical governance in line with Brainkind policies and directives. Clinical / Professional Practice To provide a high level of expertise for specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to (insert service location) and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care. To complete preadmission assessments, developing highly specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individuals rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals. To be competent to support development of neurobehavioural rehabilitation within the Service, supported by the clinical director and clinical leadership team. To coordinate Service Users care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/ clinical lead. To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurorehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice. You will take the lead in very complex cases, over see the care plans and neurobehavioural rehabilitation guidelines, providing support to other psychologists and the rest of the multi/inter disciplinary team. To lead on supporting the multi/inter disciplinary team in developing personal goals with service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team. To support the multi/inter disciplinary team in the process of developing person centred, holistic goals based around personal values and social participation. To be responsible for providing a highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families particularly for complex cases. You will contribute highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff, particularly in complex cases. To understand and communicate the BIRT whole team, holistic, neurobehavioural approach, to the clinical team, rehabilitation support workers. To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required. To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team. To consult with and provide specialist neuropsychological guidance to carers and families of service users within BIRT. To lead the Clinical Team and ensure that the Rehabilitation Support workers understand and implement the neurobehavioral rehabilitation approach. To do this by leading team meetings, ensuring staff have tutorials, group work, SMART goals and that other materials are available for supporting the clinical model within the service. To support colleagues in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy to working within the BIRT Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation Model, and to encourage specialist learning and research within these professions. To proactively liaise effectively with referrers and purchasers of BIRT services, to develop commissioning links with NHS and other providers via linking in with relevant regional and other structures where possible. To develop service delivery in conjunction with managers and clinicians, that meets CQCs and clinical governances standards of excellence. Leadership To be responsible for promoting and implementing agreed developments in brain injury rehabilitation service provision on behalf of Brainkind. To be responsible for ensuring that the policies and procedures of Brainkind, the profession and the service are properly implemented by the neuropsychological practitioners. To take a leading role, in collaboration with other senior staff, in the planning and development of services for people with acquired brain injury. To communicate through a variety of methods (written, virtual, verbal) to a high standard, in a timely and appropriate manner, in line with confidentiality policies to ensure to delivery of a high-quality service. Evidence, Research and Development To take a leading role in the evaluation of BIRT Services by initiating, designing and implementing service-related research and evaluation projects with approval via the relevant processes. To provide leadership and management with regard to the selection and design of complex audit projects, guiding and supporting colleagues to develop service provision. To develop a high profile at a local and national level through engaging in relevant professional activities. To be responsible for maintaining a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with Brainkind, professional and national standards for Health Care records. To keep abreast of developments in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, particularly in the field of neurorehabilitation. To participate fully in supporting the activities of the Psychology profession within Brainkind, including attending relevant meetings.