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Principle Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 12 July 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: | 01 August 2024 |
| Location: | Torquay , TQ2 7AA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9369-24-0523 |
Summary
Job Purpose A principal purpose of this job is to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of women, who present with severe and complex mental health needs during the perinatal period, and their babies and families. This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility: 1. Working with the Professional Lead and Service Manager/s to ensure the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service in the specialist field of practice. 2. Providing clinical leadership and supervision for less experienced staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the service. 3. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients and professionals. 4. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within professional andTrust guidelines. 5. Contributing to service development and evaluation by undertaking and supporting others to undertake audit and research activities within the service. 6. Observing, and abiding by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully registered with the Health Care Professions Council or appropriate designated Professional Body as a condition of employment. 7. The post holder with receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated Professional Body. Duties and Responsibilities Communication and Working Relationships Patients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with patients who may have specific difficulties in understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed. Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional Perinatal Mental Health service on a day to day basis. To contribute to liaison with a wide range of professionals and agencies. Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health and social care staff in a range of settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under the services care. To provide support and guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice. Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across the Trust. To foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation. Planning and Organisation The psychology service: To plan and organise own work balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and service research and development activities. To contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within the Perinatal Mental Health teams to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities. The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy supervision and consultation within the Perinatal Mental Health teams. To contribute to planning, development and marketing of the Perinatal Mental Health service. Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis To provide specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychology/Therapy expertise and advice including complex assessment of specialist conditions. To provide assessments, develop specialist psychological formulations, formulate plans for psychological treatment and implement specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. Proficiency in both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable. To support the Professional Lead, Strategic Lead, Head of Profession, and Perinatal Service Managers, by undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within the team. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the management of risk. To provide expert psychological assessments of clients, develop specialist psychological formulations, formulate plans for psychological treatment and implement specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. To maintain accurate and up to date clinical records To demonstrate awareness of diversity issues. To be able to provide the above in community settings as appropriate. Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, clients, supporters and families. Policy, Service, Research, Innovation and Improvement The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines. Policy & service: To contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures for the provision of psychology and therapy services within the Perinatal Mental Health service and other services within the Trust. R & D: To support the R&D activities of the Perinatal Mental Health Teams, and other services within the Trust. Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources To be responsible for the safe keeping of equipment under own use. Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and Management Leadership and supervision: To lead and professionally supervise less experienced psychology/therapy staff, trainees and volunteers. To provide trainee placement opportunities to trainees in line with professional guidelines. To contribute to the provision of clinical supervision for Perinatal Mental Health team practitioners. To contribute to the provision of supervision for other staff within other teams in the Trust. Information Resources and Administrative Duties To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust Practice Standards. To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication. Responsibility for Research and Development To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work within the Perinatal Mental Health service. To conduct project work including specific areas of audit, research or service evaluation As a clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation. To participate in service audits and relevant research projects. Freedom to Act The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines To work autonomously within clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. To interpret professional and Trust guidelines, and implement policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and General Manager. To provide expert and specialist clinical/counselling psychology/therapy expertise and advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families. Any Other Specific Tasks Required To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by psychologists/psychotherapists/therapists working in the Perinatal Mental Health Teams is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership. To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.