Clinical Psychologist - Jersey - £73k - £80k
| Posting date: | 25 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £73,304.00 to £80,567.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £73304.00 - £80567.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2024 |
| Location: | Jersey, JE2 3RR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | K0011-24-0140 |
Summary
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients admitted to the inpatient service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological 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 clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems including developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal patterns of relating, service, and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations which draw upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. In the context of the multidisciplinary team, to be professionally responsibility for the psychological assessment, care plan development and treatment of clients admitted to the inpatient environment. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex/sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care. To provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team, particularly where there are conflicting opinions about the multiple options available for assessment and intervention.