Clinical/Counselling/Practitioner Psychologist
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £50,952.00 to £57,349.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50952.00 - £57349.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Sleaford, NG34 8GG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9274-24-0397 |
Summary
To manage a caseload of patients within the Sleaford Integrated Community Mental Health Team. To meet appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided. The standards of practice will include meeting the standards defined by the HCPC British Psychological Society (including the Division of Clinical Psychology or equivalent) and Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust. To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patients mental health and the presenting problem(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual framework of the patients problems, via the employment of methods based uponevidence based practice and efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for patients, carers, families and groups. Adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon arange of theoretical perspectives and different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological. To provide consultation and advice to relevant significant others (such as partners and carers) in order to improve the psychological health of clients of the service. To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with mental health difficulties. To keep adequate clinical records in accordance with the Division of Clinical Psychology guidance or equivalent, and local trust policies and procedures. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patient and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, in line with local trust policies and procedures. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care. For full details of duties please refer to Job Description and Person Specification