Principal Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,972.00 to £68,525.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Norwich, NR4 7UY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9234-24-0569 |
Summary
To be responsible for providing a highly specialist systematic and autonomous clinical psychology service, within the specialist area, in accordance with objectives agreed with service and professional managers. The post will require independent management of caseload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. To provide a clinical service to other specialties, as agreed with the Service Manager for Clinical Psychology. To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly 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 patients care to reach a psychological formulation of the clients difficulties. The post will require manipulation of highly specialist equipment for neuropsychological and psychometric assessments of ability and performance. Assessments will also require the systematic observation, recording, analysis and interpretation of complex visual material. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and management for clients in the service and their families with accompanying psychological difficulties, including clients with highly complex clinical presentations and histories. Treatment to be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based methods. To be responsible for implementing a range of complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups (where appropriate) within and across settings employed individually and systemically, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To provide specialist assessments of clients presenting with cognitive impairment due to a variety of causes or organic conditions, including pre-assessment counselling and neuropsychological and functional screening assessments, and to be able to adjust psychological interventions accordingly or to refer on to more appropriate services. 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 assess and evaluate information from the child, adult, family and significant others, multi-disciplinary medical team and external agencies relating to medical condition, developmental status and incorporate this information into a clinical formulation. Post will require intensive concentration during all patient and family contact, ranging from relatively brief contact to assessments lasting several hours. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of complex clients whose problems are primarily psychological and to autonomously manage an out-patient caseload in line with the service thresholds and priorities. To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision, debrief and advice about psychological issues at a high level of professional expertise to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, through attendance at regular psychosocial meetings, multidisciplinary team meetings and ward rounds, and across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate. To evaluate the impact of staff support methods and to advise management within the units on staff support needs and policies. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. Please see the attached job description for full details.