Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist (XR10)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	02 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog:	£76,965.00 i £88,682.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£76965.00 - £88682.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	22 Mehefin 2025
Lleoliad:	Leeds, LS9 7TF
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9298-CHI-0386

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Principal duties and areas of responsibility Clinical: To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service 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, develop and implement plans for the formal neuro/psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients 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 patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients who have had brain or CNS damage across settings and agencies serving the client group To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, with particular reference to deliberate self-harm To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care setting) including patients, their carers referring agents and others involved in the network of care To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of patients to staff and agencies outside the Trust Teaching, training, and supervision To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a more senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and the service (as agreed with the Head of Department) up to two sessions per week 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 doctoral trainee and graduate/ assistant psychologists To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate Management, recruitment, policy, and service development As a lead consultant psychologist, to be responsible for systematically appraising needs for services for patients and relatives served by LTHT and the DPP (LTC Team). To identify appropriate developments for these services and to make recommendations to the Head of DPP To initiate and implement service developments and projects within the post-holders areas of responsibility To take a lead role in the planning and development of services for patients seen within the DPP (LTC Team), regularly being a member of planning groups and taking a lead role in specific developments To participate as a senior clinician in the development of high quality, responsive and accessible services for patients their carers and families within the DPP including advising the Head of Department on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing To interpret and set policies and guidelines concerning professional good practice for the provision of services within the post-holders areas of responsibility Professional Leadership, Management and Recruitment To exercise responsibility for managing the clinical resources available to the post-holder in the assessment and treatment of patients To act as authorised signatory for the travel and training expenses for psychology staff for whom the post holder is responsible To be responsible for line-managing designated staff within the service, ensuring good practice and professional development by undertaking regular performance appraisals, ensuring professional development and monitoring and adjusting workload To exercise responsibility for the appropriate and safe use of specialist neuropsychological equipment within the service including where necessary appropriate systems of stock control To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the post-holders areas of responsibility, including maintaining systematic records of appraisals, clinical record keeping standards and the transcribing of minutes and records of appropriate professional meetings To advise and participate in appropriate professional recruitment within the service. Research and Service Evaluation To take the lead as a senior clinician, in planning and implementing systems for the evaluation, monitoring and development of the paediatric psychology services within the post-holders areas of responsibility, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research, to support evidence-based practice in individual work, work with relevant professions and across the service To undertake research and to provide research advice and research supervision to other staff within the Department and, where appropriate, to other staff within the Trust and to disseminate information gained from research by presentation and publication To initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to patients and their families. General To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through a) active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the Head of Department, other Lead Consultant Psychologists and the departmental Supervision Co-ordinator and b) the encouragement and facilitation of the active participation of service users in the design, provision and evaluation of clinical services To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group, mental health and clinical and health psychology in general.