Specialist Applied Psychologist
| Posting date: | 11 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,723.00 to £84,752.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £70723.00 - £84752.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Location: | Guernsey, GY4 6UU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | K0005-25-0140 |
Summary
Clinical 1. Individual therapy in complex cases. 2. Supervision of therapy undertaken by Psychology Assistants, Social Workers andTherapeutic Support Workers and Supervision of Psychological practitioners. 3. To undertake a lead role in providing specialist psychological assessments of clientsreferred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integrationof complex data from a variety of sources including psychological andneuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirectstructured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family membersand others involved in the clients care. 4. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/ormanagement of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriateconceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based uponevidence of efficacy. 5. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions forindividuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individuallyand in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upondifferent explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 6. To evaluate, monitor progress and make highly skilled evaluations and decisions abouttreatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models andhighly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that haveshaped the individual, family or group. 7. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to otherprofessionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatmentplans. 8. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically basedframework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provisionof advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research andtheory. 9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and toprovide both general and specialist advice to other professions on psychologicalaspects of risk assessment and risk management. 10. To act as lead professional, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a carepackage appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involvedwith care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicatingeffectively with the client, the family and all others involved in the network of care,and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions. 11. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex informationconcerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under theircare where there may be conflicting views, high emotion and significant barriers tounderstanding and change, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the courseof both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. 12. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriateprovision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team. Training 1. To participate with other psychologists in the development, delivery and evaluationof specialist training across HSC in respect of relevant specialty related skills. 2. To participate in clinical supervision and appraisal. 3. To continue to develop expertise in the area of training and clinical supervision. 4. To seek the advice of the Lead Clinical Psychologist within the team regardingprofessional development needs/plans. Service Development 1. To observe codes of practice of the British Psychological Society (BPS) which relate toprofessional practice, ethics, record keeping, team working and all other guidelinesrelevant to clinical psychologists. 2. To work within appropriate competences and experience and professional selfgovernance. 3. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from appropriatelyexperienced Clinical Psychologists and if appropriate other senior colleagues anaccordance with BPS practice guidelines. 4. To ensure articulation of best practice in psychology by exercising skills of a reflexiveand reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular supervision and appraisal. 5. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highestprofessional standards of practice through active upkeep of CPD training programmesas annually identified and as relevant to service provided. 6. To maintain active engagement with professional colleagues and developments in thegeneral field of Clinical Psychology through participation in service wide psychologyprograms where relevant. 7. To ensure the highest standards of record keeping be they manual or electronic inaccordance with BPS and HSC policies and procedures, and to promote and ensurehighest standards of report writing