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CBT Therapist, Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist HIV PrEP
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Gorffennaf 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | £58,972.00 i £68,525.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 31 Gorffennaf 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Walsall, WS1 1AT |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9407-24-0380 |
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Key Responsibilities Clinical Provide a specialist clinical service to individuals engaging in risky sexual behaviour and others at risk of contracting HIV. To act as lead psychological practitioner, and autonomously manage a caseload of clients with highly complex and changing needs. Develop trusting and empathic relationships with clients and be able to communicate highly emotive information with clarity and sensitivity. Assess and interpret highly complex clinical situations and information from a variety of sources including, formal psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales and semi structured interviews with clients and where appropriate, partners. Carry out specialist bespoke psychological assessments where appropriate including in complex circumstances such as sensory impairments, cultural diversity and mental health involvement. Communicate findings to the client, and other health and social care where appropriate. Develop formulations and use psychological models and frameworks to compare and inform highly specialised psychological interventions, based on evidence of efficacy, for individuals at risk of contracting HIV, to help steer them towards HIV PrEP and maintain adherence. Negotiate the implementation of such plans with clients who may show some resistance and monitor the progress of interventions. Compare, evaluate and make decisions about diverse treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual. Provides highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients formulation and intervention plan. Participate in the multi-disciplinary team and work collaboratively and in an integrated manner with other health professionals e.g. nurses, pharmacists, outreach workers and other NHS and social services staff. To undertake highly specialist risk assessment and management for individual clients and to provide expert advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. Responsible for providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professional groups outside the HIV PrEP service as appropriate. To act as an expert resource for the development of a new psychological service, drawing on substantial experience and theoretical knowledge of HIV to help set strategic priorities. To provide formal and informal training and supervision and assist in the performance management for more junior staff. Contribute to the training, support, and informal supervision of peers. Responsible for own Continuing Professional Development, gaining additional highly specialist experience, theoretical knowledge and skills relevant to the service and psychotherapy. Participate in Professional Development Reviews and peer support. 2. Leadership To work as an integral / core member of the HIV PrEP Service. Provide clinical and professional leadership to support colleagues with regards to improving client services in HIV PrEP and actively support the strategic planning of services and implementation of strategic development, Ieading projects and initiatives as appropriate. Establish and maintain robust partnership working with service-user groups, utilising user views and experience to improve the local service. Develop patient and public participation in service delivery and development. Work across organisational boundaries and develop and maintain effective communication with other health care professionals / agencies where appropriate to include promotion and publicity of the service. To effectively develop and participate in self-management and education programmes for people at risk of contracting HIV. Contribute to the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Clinical Governance Agenda and National Policy though development and evaluation of best practice guidelines, standards and care pathways. Initiate and inform service evaluation, reviews and developments. Identify, assess and manage organisational risk in line with Trust policy and procedures. 3 . Management, Policy and Service Development Work collaboratively within the NHS and multi-agency groups to advance good working relationships with local health, social care staff and service users to ensure integration of initiatives and services. Advise both service and professional management on developments to the HIV PrEP Service in consultation with other staff and in line with local and national guidance documents e.g. NICE Guidelines and an in depth and up to date knowledge of the area. To take a lead role in developing psychological services to people at risk of contracting HIV in conjunction with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist. To be accountable to the Service lead and Head of Clinical Health Psychology for clinical governance e.g. issues of quality, clinical effectiveness and clinical risk. To contribute towards marketing and raising the profile and role of the Psychology service in HIV PrEP to the target groups of clients. To ensure effective promotion and publicity of the HIV PrEP Service to meet the needs of Walsalls diverse communities. To participate in the operational and strategic development of the HIV PrEP Service and the Multi-Disciplinary Team. To participate in any potential service review and redesign in line with internal review processes or commissioning intentions Responsible for maintaining satisfactory records of service operation in accordance with agreed protocols, regular auditing service data and ensuring security of confidential data. 4. Teaching, Training and Supervision Receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practise guidelines and as expected for all Psychotherapists and Clinical Psychologists.. Provide regular supervision for qualified Psychologists, Counsellors, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and other health professionals where appropriate (e.g. Specialist Nurses). Responsible for providing highly specialist education and training in psychological aspects of care to empower and enable other health and social care staff to achieve the highest standards of psychosocial care. Take appropriate care of trust equipment and resources used in the course of work. Develop further theoretical knowledge and expertise in relation to the speciality, keeping up to date with current practices and identifying personal training needs and those of the team. 5. Research and Development Undertake and lead service related audit and evaluation within HIV PrEP with colleagues to help develop service provision. Consider theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence based practise in individual work and work with other team members. Examine and study new ways of working or transferring existing practical and theoretical models of work from one context to another. Participate in the Clinical Health Psychology Service clinical governance activities leading on service level projects. 6. Information Technology Skilled at use of information technology systems to support service-related work e.g. word processing and use of databases. Uses information technology systems to support formal and informal research activities: developing databases, collecting, collating and entering data and statistical analysis. To be responsible for timely inputting and management of data to Trust data systems (e.g. Lilly system). 7. Freedom To Act Works as an autonomous practitioner accountable for own professional practice in respect of assessment, therapy and discharge of clients within defined caseload. Works within the Professional Codes of Conduct of the Health and Care Professions Council and the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). Professionally accountable to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Patient & Public Involvement Provide support and information to clients with empathy and reassurance. In collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, demonstrate the active involvement of users of the service to gain their input to service development to ensure continuous improvements in patient care. General Areas Other Duties The information supplied above is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and duties of the role. The post holder may be required from time to time to carry out other reasonable requests and duties as required, consistent with the responsibilities of their Banding and development as agreed between employee and manager. Confidentiality and Data Protection All employees who have access to personal data in relation to patients or employees will be aware of their responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998 and will abide by the eight principles of that Act. Any breach of the Act could result in disciplinary action being taken and criminal charges being brought against the individual who has breached the Act.