Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist / Clinical Lead
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £75,853.00 to £86,574.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £75853.00 - £86574.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Twickenham, TW1 3PA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9294-24-0352 |
Summary
Oversee clinical caseload of all clinical staff in NHS Richmond Talking Therapies and ensure safe and clinically effective case management of all patients. Oversee clinical outcomes and adjust delivery of clinical services to ensure that patients needs are met by the least intrusive intervention necessary to alleviate their conditions according to stepped care model of service delivery in line with NHS Talking Therapies guidance. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, and where appropriate, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To diagnose, formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for depression and anxiety for individuals, carers, families and groups, reflecting the current evidence base for the treatment and management of mental health needs, and as outlined by NICE and NHS Talking Therapies manual guidance, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To make highly skilled evaluations and 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 full responsibility and autonomy for providing interventions and/or treating and discharging clients, according to service guidelines and agreed care pathways, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions are communicated with the patient, the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis. To undertake suitable risk assessment and risk management for all clients, ensure that all staff undertake suitable risk assessment and risk management for all clients and that systems are in place to ensure safe working practices. To provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of clients contact with the service. Ensure all psychological wellbeing practitioners (PWPs) and High Intensity Therapists (HITs) adhere to standardised protocols and supervision standards to produce clinically safe triage assessments, enhanced assessments and interventions. Advise the Service Manager and Operational Lead for NHS Talking Therapies on the development of clinically safe practice policies and protocols. Ensure staff adhere to agreed protocols.