Job responsibilities
2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY
To
provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to adult patients, across all
sites and sectors of care by:
a) Providing highly specialist
psychological assessment and therapy,
b) Offering advice and consultation on
patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist
colleagues and to other non-professional carers,
c) Using research skills for audit,
policy and service development and leading on research projects within the
area served by the team/service
d) Working autonomously in the execution
of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework
of the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.
PRINCIPAL
DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist psychological
assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and
integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological
and neuropsychological 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 psychological treatment and/or management of a patients
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 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 patients whose
problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological
advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing
directly to patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly
to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit
of people under the medical services, across settings and agencies serving
the patient group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk
management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions
on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk 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 and to monitor progress during
the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching,
training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical
professional supervision from a more senior clinical psychologist and, where
appropriate, other senior professional colleagues
2. To gain additional highly specialist
experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and the service (as
agreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Department) up to two sessions
per week.
3. To develop skills in the area of
professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide
supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
4. To provide professional and clinical
supervision of doctoral trainee and graduate/ assistant psychologists.
5. To contribute to the pre- and
post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling
psychology, as appropriate.
6. To provide advice, consultation and
training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies
and settings, where appropriate.
Management,
recruitment, policy and service development
1. To contribute to the development,
evaluation and monitoring of the team, specialty and department operational
policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in
research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both the service and the
Lead Psychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or
organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant
graduate psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, within
the framework of the team/specialty and Department policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in
the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research
and service evaluation
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based
literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work
and work with other team members.
2. To undertake, as a major component of
the post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff
undertaking research, and to disseminate appropriate material via
presentation and publication.
3. To lead on research projects within
the area served by the team/service.
4. To undertake project management,
including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the
service to help develop service provision.
5. To provide appropriate research
supervision of doctoral trainees and graduate assistant psychologists.
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 evaluated through these values.
6. 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.
7. INFECTION CONTROL
The
jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal
Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and
after contact with patients and their environment.
8. HEALTH AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT
All
staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and
improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service
users. This includes complying at all
times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health
and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer
working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident
Reporting system
9. EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
The
jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure
equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the
individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient
or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender,
ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
10. TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The
jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for
his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional
Development remains a priority. The
jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
11. COMMUNICATION & WORKING
RELATIONSHIPS
The
jobholder will liaise with Consultants and other medical, nursing or allied
health professional staff across the organisation. They will also liaise with
the Lead Clinical Psychologist, other Clinical Psychologists working in the
department, members of the psychology team and members of other disciplines
and agencies responsible for a patients care.
