Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The
principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health &
wellbeing of people with a history of childhood sexual abuse
This
will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of
responsibility:
1.
Carry out consults in specialist area of work with
professionals wishing to make referrals, to determine suitability
2.
Undertake independent specialist assessments of individuals
and their needs, leading to advice and guidance for individuals and referrers
as well as assessment of suitability for specialist interventions and
contribute to the development and review of risk management plans with
professional colleagues.
3.
Design and provide a groupwork model of Psychological
Therapy to people with a history of childhood sexual abuse including any
individual work that may be a part of that model.
4.
Provide clinical supervision where appropriate in highly
specialist area
5.
Provide specialist advice and information to
service users, their family members and carers
6.
Provide information and provide
training to colleagues within DPT in relation to the model of therapy
and the suitability of service users to take part in a model of trauma therapy
for people with a history of childhood sexual abuse
7.
To work within professional guidelines
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 the
Psychology and Therapy service 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
psychological therapy expertise and advice to people with a history of childhood
sexual abuse within PPT.
- To provide
psychological therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and
assessments of clients, offering
specialist assessments of individuals and their needs, leading to advice and
guidance for individuals and referrers as well as assessment of suitability
for specialist interventions, formulating
plans
for their psychological treatment and implementing psychological
interventions for people with a history of childhood sexual abuse as individuals
and in groups.
- Undertake risk assessments and
develop a formulation of risk which will contribute to the development of
risk management plans with professional colleagues as appropriate. Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of
individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to
formulate the most appropriate clinical plan, with professional colleagues as
appropriate.
- To provide
specialist clinical therapies expertise and advice.
Planning and
Organisational Skills
- The
service: To plan and prioritise
own workload, balancing the demands of
individual care, support and guidance of carers and professionals
and service research and development activities.
- To
contribute to the planning and organising of the delivery of
psychological trauma therapies within Devon Partnership NHS Trust and to contribute to the development and
improvement of provision of
psychological therapy for people with a history of childhood sexual
abuse within services to best meet
the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The
multidisciplinary service: To
provide trauma therapy model Psychological Therapies knowledge to the
multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and
wellbeing services.
Responsibility
for Patient/Client 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 therapy and implement specialist psychological
interventions for women as individuals and groups, and to demonstrate
awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation
& guidance: To
provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation on psychological
therapy aspects of individual care to people with a history of childhood
sexual abuse to colleagues and other
service providers.
Responsibility for
Policy and Service Development Implementation
- The
post holder is responsible for their own professional actions, acting
within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines,
working within clearly defined occupational procedures utilise theory, evidence-based literature
and research to support evidence based practice in individual work within
the PPT and local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific
areas of audit, research or service evaluation as appropriate
- As a clinician to be responsible for
collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building
practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Responsibility for
Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- Careful use of
equipment.
Responsibility
for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management
Leadership
& supervision:
1. To clinically
supervise the work of less experienced psychological therapy practitioners,
trainees and assistants as required.
2. To provide training as required and continuing
professional development in therapies
/ treatments for people with a history of childhood sexual abuse.
Responsibility for
Information Resources and Administrative Duties
- To
maintain accurate and timely 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.
Responsibility for
Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based
literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual
work within the PPT and local mental health services.
- To support project work including
specific areas of audit, research or service evaluation
- As a clinician to be responsible
for collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to
building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
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 the code of conduct and professional guidelines
and ensure governance is embedded within PPT. Implement policies in
conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and General Manager.
- To
provide specialist expertise and guidance and consultation on psychological
aspects of patient care to other service providers, clients, supporters and
families
Any Other Specific
Tasks Required
- To contribute to ensuring all clinical care and treatment provided by
Psychological therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To contribute to ensuring that all Psychological therapists
continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical
work.
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