Senior Clinical Psychologist (XR08)
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9298-ATH-424 |
Summary
4.PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Clinical: 1. To provide specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with staff members and appropriate others. 2. To formulate, develop and implement plans for psychological interventions to address staff member and team wellbeing, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of presenting needs, and employing evidence-based methods. 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions within and across teams employed individually and in systems, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 4. To evaluate and make decisions about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, systemic and developmental processes that have shaped the individual or group. 5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users. 6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals and stakeholders, contributing directly to staff members mental health and workplace wellbeing. 7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychological understanding of staff members and teams occupational wellbeing needs. 8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. 9. 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. 10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of service users 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 more senior clinical/counselling psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues 2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical/counselling psychology and the service (as agreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Department) up to two sessions per week. 3. 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. 4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of doctoral trainee and graduate/ assistant psychologists. 5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate. 6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working 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 team, specialty and department operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. 2. To advise both the service and the Lead Psychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. 3. To manage the workloads of assistant graduate psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/specialty and Department 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, and to disseminate appropriate material via presentation and publication. 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. 5. To provide appropriate research supervision of doctoral trainees and graduate assistant psychologists.