Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities (DELETE IF NOT APPLICABLE)
Patient Care
- Provide and receive highly complex information (related to mental health and CBT) to individual, groups, and large groups of service users, relatives, carers, members of the public and professionals.
- Develop and maintain close professional therapeutic relationships with Service Users using advanced psychotherapy skills to bring about lasting psychological change.
- Have specialist theoretical and practical clinical knowledge of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Have some experience of indirect work and teaching: to build on this to begin supervising less experienced staff and to provide teaching and consultation.
- To gather a range of facts and contexts, relevant to the Service Users clinical care. To analysis and weigh the relative importance of the factors to form an understanding of the Service Users difficulties and relate these to the range of psychological and other treatment options available. To form a judgement between the relative utilities of the treatment options and the Service Users preferences. (b) In an interactive dialogue communicate the options to the Service User updating the treatment frame in response to additional information provided by the Service User during the course of this dialogue.
- To collate and analyse clinical data from your own Service Users and those under the care of your supervisees, within the overall framework of the required data output of the service, to analyse this data with the intention of: (a) identifying and minimising risk, (b) optimising clinical effectiveness, (c) optimising service efficiency. To then, in conjunction with your Clinical Supervisor, devise a plan that addresses these components within the immediate context of where you deliver your service, the skills and aptitudes of your trainees and the broader operational framework of the service and have the skill to implement the agreed plan in an iterative manner.
- Contribute to the clinical governance framework of the Service by identifying and acting on areas of concern and supporting senior clinicians who are taking the lead in designated areas of responsibility.
Clinical
As appropriate teaching, training and supervising less experienced staff and members of other disciplines, on psychological theory and practice as required.
Co-ordinate the activities of yourself and your supervisee(s) to balance the conflicting: needs of Service Users, demands of the different areas of service provision, your own continuing professional development, and service provision. This will involve sudden changes in plans to respond to clinical emergencies on a frequent but not regular basis.
Contribute to the clinical governance framework of the service.
- Assess Service Users, prepare a psychotherapy care plan and deliver specialist therapy to individuals and to groups of service users. Support other clinicians in the delivery of individual and group CBT.
- Hold your own caseload and respond to Service User crises as appropriate.
Administration
- Using computer data entry systems, record clinical input and outcome data. Collate this information and communicate it to the responsible clinician/service head.
- Contribute to the monitoring, review and audit of the work in the service.
Management
- As appropriate to stage of development to supervise assistants, trainees and staff form other disciplines in both SPS and the PCNs.
Human Resources
- As appropriate providing specialist teaching and training in CBT.
Performance and Quality
- To make an active contribution to pursue the aims, objectives and overall strategy of the service thereby contributing to the development of clinical services provided within the Psychological therapies service.
Financial and Physical Resources
Observe personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in course of work.
- Frequent exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances arising from therapeutic contact with Service Users (including relatives and carers) requiring emotional engagement with the material discussed, emotional self-regulation by the therapist and the delivery of a therapeutic response within professional boundaries. To provide emotional support as appropriate to professional colleagues
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Education/
Qualification/
Training
- Clinical /Counselling Psychologist: Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.OR Postgraduate Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
- Or a CBT Qualification from High Intensity IAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma) or similar for accreditation with BABCP.
- Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Formal qualification in CBT.
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Experience
- Experience of working with patients from moderate to complex mental health conditions.
- Any experience providing teaching, training or supervision in CBT
- Experience of delivering CBT to adults in a secondary care setting.
- Experience delivering therapy through an interpreter.
- Experience providing group treatments.
- Experience working within a diverse cultural setting.
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Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of generic and specialist psychological assessments and range of therapeutic interventions required for people with mental health problems.
- Knowledge pertinent to effective risk assessment and management.
- Knowledge of CBT including the standard CBT treatment models for common mental disorders, and treatment outcomes and methods.
Knowledge of adapting standard models using individualised formulations.
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Other
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills relevant to a wide range of audiences.
- Ability to engage patients with different language and cultural needs.
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