Job responsibilities
JOB
DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Accountable to: Consultant
Clinical Psychologist
Responsible for: Assistant Psychologists and Doctoral Trainees
Location: The
Grange, Spixworth Road, Norwich
JOB SUMMARY
To
ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical
psychology service to clients of the team.
To supervise and support the assessment and therapy provided by other
psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide
psychologically-based care and treatment. To work autonomously within
professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic
governance of psychological practice within the service/team. To utilise
research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research. To
propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.
KEY RESULT AREAS
Clinical:
To provide specialist
psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the
appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex
psychological 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 clients, family members and others involved in
the clients care.
To formulate and implement
plans for the formal psychological
treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems including
developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal
patterns of relating, service, and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based
upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems and employing
methods of proven efficacy.
To be responsible for
implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting, and
refining psychological formulations which draw upon different explanatory
models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
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.
To provide specialist
psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients
formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
To ensure that all members
of the team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding
and care of clients of the service,
through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of
psychological research and theory.
To undertake risk assessment
and risk management for individual clients
and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological
aspects of risk assessment and management.
To communicate in a skilled
and sensitive manner, highly complex/sensitive information concerning the
assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plans of clients under their
care.
To provide expertise,
advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of
psychological care by all members of the team,
particularly where there are conflicting opinions about the multiple options
available for assessment and intervention.
To provide formal and
informal clinical advice and support to trainee clinical psychologists
developing their specialist
expertise.
Teaching,
training, and supervision
To
receive regular clinical professional supervision from the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
To support core and
specialist clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring
that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to contribute
effectively to good psychological
care and to take part in the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
To provide advice,
consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team
for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve
clients functioning.
To provide advice,
consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
To provide professional
management and clinical supervision of assistant and senior assistant clinical psychologists working in the service.
Management,
recruitment, policy, and service development
To participate in the
development of a high quality,
responsive and accessible service including advising both service and
professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological
and/or organisational matters need addressing.
To advise the management
team regarding the psychological resources available to the wider team, whether in the form of additional
staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and
treatment of patients.
To participate in the
systematic governance of psychological
practice within the service/team.
To participate as
appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a
member of interview panels for assistant psychologists.
Research
and service evaluation
To support the evaluation,
monitoring and development of the teams operational policies, through the
deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of
psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
To utilise theory,
evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other
team members.
To undertake appropriate
research and provide research advice to other
staff undertaking research including doctoral trainee clinical
psychologists and assistant and psychologists undertaking research as
appropriate.
To initiate project
management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues
within and across the service to help develop
and improve services to clients
and their families.
General
To ensure the development,
maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of
practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.
To ensure the development
and dissemination 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 professional supervision
and appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement
with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related
disciplines.
To maintain and promulgate
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 British Psychological Society/HCPC.
To
be noted:
This is not an exhaustive
list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake
other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist
This
job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service
requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the postholder