Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist
| Posting date: | 22 August 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: | 04 September 2025 |
| Location: | citywide, B13 8JL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9820-25-0723 |
Summary
For full details of responsibilities please see attached job description 1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological assessment, 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. Deliver and present highly complex communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. 3. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems. This is to be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficiency, across the full range of care settings. 4. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams. This would involve adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. 6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychological based standard care plans. 7. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 8. To ensure that all members of the service have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding the need of clients, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. 9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. 10. To act as key worker in services, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging goal planning reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the multi-disciplinary interventions. 11. Specialist psychological assessment to communicate with clients with a wide range of presenting problems, including clients with complex communication difficulties. This requires managing unpredictable clinical situations; intense concentration; sitting for long periods while constantly being exposed to extreme emotional/psychological distress, including issues of sexual abuse or severe mental illness; frequent contact with carers in extremely distressed states; an ability to reflect and contain own emotions and those of others. 12. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team. 13. To facilitate clinical visits to patients homes as necessary.