Principal Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 10 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,972.00 to £68,525.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 October 2024 |
| Location: | Southport, PR8 6PN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9409-24-1039 |
Summary
KEY DUTIES Patient / Client Care To apply a combination of specialist clinical skills derived from experience and further learning via CPD across the clinical spectrum of assessment, intervention, and evaluation. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the NWSIC based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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 offer clinical services and direct clinical contact in a variety of settings in both inpatients and outpatients, both in person and virtually. To formulate and implement complex plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions (therapy) for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, whilst adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account their physical health presentation, both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans. To provide specialist, highly complex psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To communicate highly complex and highly emotive information to adults, their families, and carers. To ensure that all member of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients and provide advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both unidisciplinary and multidisciplinary care. To provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team. SUPERVISION, CONSULTATION, TEACHING AND TRAINING To co-ordinate, in conjunction with the relevant manager, the effective supervision of psychological practice within the designated service. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competences, and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. To provide post qualification training, clinical and professional supervision to other qualified applied psychologists attached to the team, where appropriate. To provide clinical supervision to Clinical and other Practitioner Psychologists within the Clinical Psychology Department. To provide advice, consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other members of the MDT for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning. To organise, co-ordinate and provide agreed post qualification teaching. To continue to develop skills in the area of professional pre and post graduate training under clinical supervision. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. In common with all Clinical Psychologists, to receive regular clinical and professional supervision from an appropriately experienced/ more senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT To participate as a senior clinician in the development of high quality, responsive and accessible services including advising both operational and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To exercise responsibility for co-ordinating psychological resources available to the team in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of service users. To exercise in collaboration with the relevant manager, responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the nominated service or team. To initiate and implement, in conjunction with relevant managers, service developments and projects within the sector/service. To be responsible for developing policies and procedures related to psychological care pathways within the service. To take a deputised clinical and professional lead as senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the teams operational policies, through the deployment of professional skill and research, service evaluation and audit, and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality multi-disciplinary care. FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES To be an authorised signatory for expense sheets and psychological resources, as agreed with the nominated manager. HUMAN RESOURCES To take on as appropriate to a Deputy Clinical Lead role, management/supervisory responsibilities of psychology staff. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistants, trainees and qualified clinical psychologists/ psychological practitioners and other staff within the designated service area. INFORMATION RESOURCES To provide monthly clinical activity data and contribute to discussions about service wide activity. To provide appropriate statistical returns as required. To report on KPIs to operational leads and commissioning bodies. RESEARCH & AUDIT To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. To initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve service provision.