Job responsibilities
JOB
PURPOSE
To
provide a qualified, specialist, clinical psychology/ neuropsychology service
to patients who are seen within neuropsychology services, across all sites
and sectors of care by:
Providing specialist psychological
and neuropsychological assessments and therapy.
Offering advice and consultation on
patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist
colleagues and to other non-professional carers
Developing, supporting and
maintaining effective working relationships with other disciplines within the
service areas, including attending Team meetings.
Using research skills for audit,
policy and service development and leading on research projects within the
area served by the team/service
Proposing and implementing policy
changes within the specialist area served
Making a contribution to the general
management, governance and supervision of the clinical neuropsychology
service as agreed.
Working autonomously in the delivery
of these duties within professional guidelines, the evidence-based literature
and the overall framework of the Team, Department of Clinical & Health
Psychology and Trust policies and procedures.
3. JOB DIMENSIONS
National
KSF profile
Core:
Develop and maintain communication
with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations
Develop oneself and contribute to
the development of others
Monitor and maintain health, safety
and security of self and others
Contribute to the improvement of
services
Contribute to improving quality
Promote equality and value
diversity
Health
and Wellbeing
Plan, develop and implement
approaches to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on
health and wellbeing
Assess complex health and wellbeing
needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet those needs
Contribute to protecting people at
risk
Assess physiological,
neuropsychological and psychological functioning when there are complex
and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop,
monitor and review related treatment plans
Plan, deliver and evaluate
interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and/or serious
illness
General
Plan, deliver and review
interventions to enable people to learnand develop
Test and review new concepts,
models, methods, practices, products and equipment
Prioritise and manage the ongoing
work of services and/or projects
Plan, allocate and supervise the
work of a team
6. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our
values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this
as a strength as well as a responsibility.
They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as
important to how we work. Our five
values are:
Patient-centred
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
All
our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluatedthrough these values.
7. WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE
TRUSTS (WYAAT)
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of
Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across
West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible
care for our patients.
By
bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West
Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving
forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT
is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care
Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The
Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and
wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that
ambition.
8. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS
1. To ensure the development,
maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of
practice through (a) active participation in internal and external CPD
training and development programmes and (b) the encouragement and
facilitation of the active participation of service users in the design,
provision and evaluation of clinical services.
2. To ensure the development and
articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and
contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and
reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular clinical
supervision* and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current
developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
3. To maintain the highest standards of
clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report
writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in
accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC, British
Psychological Society (BPS) and Trust policies and procedures
4. To contribute to the development and
articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing
to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner,
taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining
an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical
psychology and neuropsychology and related disciplines
5. To maintain up to date knowledge of
legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the
specific client group, mental health, clinical psychology, clinical
neuropsychology and health psychology in general.
*
Please note that all post holders of clinical psychology posts receive
clinical supervision. This is not to be confused with management supervision
in AFC terms
9. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Professional
knowledge:
Skills in the use of complex
methods of neuropsychological and psychological assessment, intervention and
management
Well-developed skills in the
ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly
technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their
families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside
the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to
other professional and non-professional groups.
Doctoral level knowledge of
research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis
as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and neuropsychology
Evidence of continuing professional
development as recommended by the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Understanding
of the Department and Organisation
Knowledge and understanding of the
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) values and behaviours
Knowledge and understanding of the
structure of the Clinical and Health Psychology Department
Knowledge and understanding of the
Department operational policies
Knowledge and understanding of
Trust policies and procedures
Knowledge and understanding of the
structure of the LTHT Adult Pain services.
10. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF
RESPONSIBILITY
1. To provide specialist
neuropsychological and psychological assessments of patients referred to the
service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of
highly complex data from a variety of sources including neuropsychological
and psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and
indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with
patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.
2. To formulate, develop and implement
plans for the formal neuropsychological and psychological treatment and/or
management of a patients neuropsychological and psychological problems,
based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and
employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of
care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a
range of neuropsychological and psychological interventions for individuals,
carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually
and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing
upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional
hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about
treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models
and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes
that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional
responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose
problems are managed by neuropsychologically and psychologically based
standard care plans.
6. To provide highly specialised
neuropsychological and psychological advice, guidance and consultation to
other professionals contributing directly to patients formulation, diagnosis
and treatment plans.
7. To ensure that all relevant
professionals have access to a neuropsychologically / psychologically based
framework for understanding and care of patients in the service, through the
provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of neuropsychological/
psychological research and theory.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk
management for individual patients and to provide general advice to other
professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management with
particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
9. To act as care co-ordinator, where
appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care
plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care
setting) including patients, their carers, referring agents and others
involved in the network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and
sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and
treatment plans of patients under their care.
