Clinical Psychologist or Senior Clinical Psychologist

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	10 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	£47,810.00 i £54,710.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£47810.00 - £54710.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	31 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	Leeds, LS9 7TF
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9298-ATH-421

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JOB PURPOSE To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to patients referred for outpatient clinical neuropsychological assessment and treatment To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy and also to offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall frameworks of the policies and procedures of the Department and Trust. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and to lead on research projects within the area served by the team/service. 3. JOB DIMENSIONS Core Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations Develop own skills and knowledge and provide information to others to help their development Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others Contribute to the improvement of services Maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do so Support equality and value diversity Health and wellbeing Plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects of health and wellbeing Assess health and wellbeing needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet specific needs Contribute to protecting people at risk Assess physiological and psychological functioning when there are complex and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop, monitor and review related treatment plans Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and/or serious illness Information & Knowledge: Gather, analyse, interpret and present extensive and/or complex data and information General: Enable people to learn and develop Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment Supervise peoples work 6. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Patient-centered Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values 7. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS 1. 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 Lead Psychologist and Department Supervision Co-ordinator, and (b) the encouragement and active participation of service users in the design, provision and evaluation of clinical services. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the specific client group, mental health, clinical psychology, health psychology and neuropsychology in general. 8. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING Professional knowledge Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. Understanding of the department and organisation Knowledge and understanding of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals values and behaviours. Knowledge and understanding of the structure of the Clinical and Health Psychology Department. Knowledge and understanding of the Department operational policies Knowledge and understanding of Trust policies and procedures Knowledge and Understanding of the structure of the LTHT Neurology and Neurosurgery Services. 9. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Clinical: 1. 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. 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological and 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. 6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 7. 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. 8. 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 with particular reference to deliberate self-harm. 9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute health care setting) including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. 10. 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. Teaching, training, and supervision 1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues2. 2. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other multidisciplinary staffs psychological work, as appropriate. 3. 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. 4. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate. 5. 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 1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the Departments operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. 2. To advise the Consultant Psychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. 3. To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists within the framework of the Departments policies and procedures. 4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists. Research and service evaluation 1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. 2. To undertake, as a major component of the post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. 3. To lead on research projects within the area served by the team/service. 4. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.