Practitioner Psychologist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Ionawr 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £47,810.00 i £54,710.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Dawlish, EX7 0ND |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9369-26-0004 |
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Communication and working relationship skills Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed. Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a day to day basis. Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice. Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across Secure services and in DPT to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation. Analytical and Judgemental Skills To provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology/psychological therapy expertise and advice. To provide psychological therapies/other therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. To support the Professional Lead, General Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads as by undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within the team Planning and Organisational Skills The service:To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and service research and development activities. To contribute to the planning and organising of the psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities. The multidisciplinary service:To provide psychology/therapy knowledge to the multiprofessional planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services. Responsibility for patient care, treatment and therapy Assessment & intervention:To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues. Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines. Policy & service: To support proposed changes for policy and for service development. Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Devon Partnership NHS Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines. To interpret and develop policies and procedures for the provision of psychology services. Provide clinical leadership in the continual development and provision of excellence across the service. Carry out duties in relation to local, regional and national initiatives in developing services. Work alongside other clinicians in the team and within other appropriate agencies, as well as with service users, families and carers, to initiate and implement service developments. Responsible for identifying and proposing strategic service improvements. Contribute to operational planning and advise senior colleagues on those aspects of the service that may need addressing at a strategic level. Involvement in the development of local systems and process that ensure the implementation of Trust policies. Contribute to clinical governance arrangements in order to ensure the quality of the service provided; this will include ensuring performance targets are met to provide high quality care. Hold responsibility for implementing clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal and for facilitating the highest performance of the team, with responsibility for systematic governance of the clinical practice of the team and implementation of the organisations clinical governance agenda. Responsibility for Human Resources Ensure care is provided in the most cost-effective and high quality manner and identify unmet needs. Responsible for the safe use and security of any equipment used in accordance with all relevant Trust policies and procedures Exercise responsibility for managing resources available to the service, both in terms of staff and materials employed in assessment and treatment through the care pathway Authorise staff travel expenses, and payments for equipment and other resources within the designated service. Responsibility for information resources and admin duties To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust Practice Standards. To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication. Freedom to Act The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines To work autonomously within clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation of professional and Trustguidelines, and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and General Manager. To provide specialist psychological expertise and adviceguidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families. Other specific Tasks Required To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.