Principal Practitioner Psychologist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £64,455.00 i £74,896.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L22AH |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9350-25-0928 |
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Clinical1. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Transcend Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, forensic history, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, psychodynamic, adult attachment and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and other involved in the clients care. 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients complex mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficiency, across the full range of care settings. 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialised psychological interventions for individuals and groups, within and across teams, 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, legal obligations and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family or group. 5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients who problems are managed bypsychologically based standard care plans. 6. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals which contributes directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 7. To provide directly and indirectly, a psychologically grounded framework of understanding to guide care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. 8. To ensure that comprehensive risk assessments on all patients within the service are carried out in line with Local Division policy. To contribute to multi-disciplinary diagnostic assessment of complex cases, and to share advice and recommendations.9. To communicate and record 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 multidisciplinary care. 10. To revise and manage the referral process and waiting list. 11. To clinically lead on assessment, intervention, evaluation and risk assessment. 12. To line manage psychological professions within the Transcend service, as appropriate Teaching, Training and Supervision1. To deliver regular clinical and professional supervision to psychologycolleagues.2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to psychological/nursing needs as agreed with the Divisional Lead for Psychological Professions.3. To apply and continue to develop skills in the area of professional postgraduate teaching, training supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.4. To provide professional clinical supervision of student and trainee staff and to line manage psychological professions within the Transcend service, as appropriate.5. To contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching of clinicalpsychological/nursing service staff, as appropriate, including thedevelopment of reflective practice interventions, enhanced by PhD. Study outcomes.6. To provide advice consultation and training to MDT staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate Management, Recruitment and Service Development1. To line manage psychological services staff working within the Transcend service.2. To develop and apply professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit to enhance development, evaluation and monitoring of themultidisciplinary teams operational policies and services.3. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological/nursing and/or organisational matters need addressing.4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of new staff. Research and Service Evaluation1. 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 appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.3. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop serviceprovision.4. To contribute to the dissemination of any work undertaken by promoting the evidence base and by publishing the work in accredited journal and speaking at relevant conferences/workshops