Senior Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

• Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex mental health or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.

• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.

• To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health or learning disabilities.

• To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.

• In line with the banding of the post and its service context to:

• Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists
• Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development
• Provide leadership in service audit and development
• provide leadership in service evaluation and research
• Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change

Main Duties/Responsibilities

• Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact

• Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.

• Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.

• Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

• Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.

• Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.

• Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.

• Provides highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.

• Facilitates decision-making by planning and mapping processes/interventions with members of the team to determine the most appropriate treatment modality or service for clients.

• To liaise with other professionals working within NHS, Social Inclusion and Health and the voluntary sector on matters relating to client care that have implications for the service.

2.0 Supervisory/Professional Responsibility

2.1. Clinical supervision of Trainee Applied Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.

2.2. Clinical supervision of Band 7 Applied Psychologists working within immediate area, under the guidance of Consultant Applied Psychologist

2.3. Will hold responsibility and accountability for their own actions, ensuring appropriate support and supervision is sought when required.

2.4. To keep abreast of current developments in this field through reading, attendance at appropriate training courses, and a range of other CPD activities, and to ensure that a log is kept of this in line with HCPC requirements.

2.5. To contribute, as appropriate, to the teaching offered on the local Applied Psychology training courses.

3.0 Multi-Disciplinary Training and Development

3.1. Provides highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other direct care staff in MDT

3.2. Provides clinical supervision to other direct care staff in MDT

3.3. Devises and delivers training to other staff in MDT

4.0 Service and Organisational Development

4.1. Planning and mapping interventions with members of the MDT to determine best treatments for groups of clients

4.2. Takes an active role in MDT delivery of CQUIN and QIP projects, NICE benchmarking and compliance requirements as required within MDT

5.0 Service Redesign and Cultural Change

5.1. Bring an understanding of psychological change processes to own role within MDT

5.2. Bring an understanding of psychological change processes to help MDT to cope with changes, in consultation with Consultant Applied Psychologist

6.0 Service Evaluation and Research

6.1. Take an active role in clinical audits as required within MDT

6.2. Undertake service evaluation and research in MDT

6.3. Develop proposals for research and service evaluation within MDT

6.4. Engaging multiple stakeholders in project work including service users and/or carers

6.5. Developing and implementing outcome monitoring within MDT

6.6. Supervise Applied Psychology trainee service evaluation and/or research

• To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality OA service.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• HCPC registration
• Qualification in clinical or counselling psychology
• Evidence of CPD
• Evidence of MDT working and liaison with older agencies

Desirable

• Experience of working woth older people
• Experience of community working
• BPS member

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brookland Health Centre

Brooklands Parade

Wolverhampton

WV1 2ND

Employer's website

https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)