Practitioner Psychologist
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £48,105.00 to £69,225.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £48105.00 - £69225.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 August 2025 |
| Location: | Barnsley, S70 2NZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0061-VN5319 |
Summary
1. Provide specialist psychological assessment of service users referred for treatment of addiction, linking together the complex domains of substance use, social challenges and physical and mental health problems. 2. Collaboratively formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of service users psychological problems, based on a multi-factorial understanding and current evidence-based best practice. 3. Undertake a range of evidence-based psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and their context. Providing ongoing evaluation of outcomes of the intervention. 4. Exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on own case load. 5. Work in own scope of practice and refer on to specialist services if required. 6. Provide a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-professional assessment, using formulation to communicate a psychological understanding of client needs to other involved services to enhance care. 7. Undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi-professional team. 8. Take the lead role in developing and overseeing the delivery of evidence-based psychological and psychosocial interventions in the service, ensuring MDT colleagues have the training, competencies and supervision to deliver these to the required standard. 9. Support the MDT to deliver trauma-informed care. This may involve formal training followed by ongoing regular consultation and support to apply this to the everyday work of the team. 10. Teach and support in a psychology lead approach to other professionals and trainees in collaboration with other clinicians and trainers. 11. If appropriate to service Clinically supervise, appraise and participate in the management of Assistant Psychologists in line with the guidance from professional and regulatory bodies (eg HCPC, BPS DCP and DCoP, ACP-UK) 12. Offer training and placements to Psychology training programmes around working with substance use. 13. Offer clinical supervison and specialist advice to operational and clinical team members. in line with the guidance from professional and regulatory bodies (eg HCPC, BPS DCP and DCoP, ACP-UK), to non-psychologist colleagues around the competent delivery of evidence -based psychosocial interventions to people using substances, and their families / concerned significant others. 14. Evaluate the delivery and impact of psychosocial interventions in the service. 15. Work with the central Clinical Department and operational colleagues in leading the development of a psychological approach to substance misuse treatment throughout the organisation. 16. Work alongside the team to ensure all standards required by the Care Quality Commission CQC are met and maintained. 17. Undertake continuing professional development including participating in clinical supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required from an appropriately experienced psychological professional, in line with the guidance from professional and regulatory bodies (eg HCPC, BPS DCP and DCoP, ACP-UK). 18. Develop therapy-specific competencies and participate in CPD and supervision to maintain registration with the relevant professional bodies. 19. Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies & procedures and guidelines both internal and external. This includes Humankinds clinical governance framework. 20. Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional expertise. 21. To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed and inventive.