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Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Harrow Older Adults Inpatient Ward

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	23 Ionawr 2025
Cyflog:	£51,883.00 i £58,544.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£51883.00 - £58544.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	06 Chwefror 2025
Lleoliad:	Harrow, HA35QX
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9333-25-0141

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Clinical: To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health 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 for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, 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 both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group 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 according to Trust Policy To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care 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 uni- and multi-disciplinary care To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the clients of diverse community backgrounds. Teaching, training, and supervision To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service as agreed with the professional psychology manager To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. Management, recruitment, policy and service development To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service valuation and audit To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists Research and service evaluation 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 undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision To familiarise themselves with, and to comply with, the Trusts requirements on research governance. To be noted: This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information, clinical governance including research governance