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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of individuals accessing the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
  2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of an individuals psychological needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their needs, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
  3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
  4. To evaluate, monitor progress and make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors..
  5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, triage, treatment, signposting or referral and discharge of individuals whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
  6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based enhanced care plan.
  7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to an individuals formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
  8. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of individuals, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
  9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individuals and to provide both general and specialist advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
  10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of individuals where there may be conflicting views, high emotion and significant barriers to understanding and change, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care.
  11. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care.
  12. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the service user’s needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the service user, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.Teaching, training and supervision:
      1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
      2. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists if required, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
      3. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to qualified clinical psychologists and other colleagues.
      4. To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to others for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve service users functioning.
      5. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychologists and/or other staff as appropriate.
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      7. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
      8. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.Management, recruitment, policy and To participate as a senior clinician 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.
  1. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment ofindividuals.
  2. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
  3. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels, for colleagues for the team.
  4. To act up for line manager as appropriate.
  5. The post holder will be expected to make full use of IT packages available within the work area, for example, microsoft office, email, internet, clinical systems and statistical packages. Reasonable adjustments will be made for employees who require this.
  6. To listen to feedback from users of the service and collaborate with services across Cheshire and Merseyside to ensure that these are coordinated and meet the needs of people accessing them.Service Governance:
  1. To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team’s 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.
  2. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
  3. To undertake appropriate research as agreed with Operational and Professional managers and provide research advice to team colleagues undertaking research.
  4. To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to individuals and their families.
  5. To support the monitoring of service key performance indicators and reporting of these, including data for research and other projects.
  6. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through participation in internal and external and external CPD training and development programmes. .Provide evidence of CPD undertaken.
  7. To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the team and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a 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.

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