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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Key Result Areas

1.   Clinical

Responsible for:

a.       Provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.

b.       Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.

c.        Implementing a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting, and refining psychological formulations as required and to monitor and evaluate progress of interventions.

d.       Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.

e.       Exercising autonomous professional responsibility within the context of multidisciplinary team working, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users.

f.       Consulting, advising, and/or supervising colleagues from other disciplines on the psychological formulation and management of patients with mental health problems, particularly in areas of specialist knowledge.

g.        Contributing directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.

h.       Implementing case management including working within the framework of the Care Programme Approach, fulfilling the role of care co-ordinator as appropriate; initiating planning and review of care plans involving service users, carers, and others involved in the care package, in this process.

i.       Assessing, monitoring, and managing clinical risk to minimise this risk to patients, other people, and oneself, and providing advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

j.         Communicating orally and in writing, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users, to referrers and others involved in the service user’s care on a need-to-know basis.

k.       Developing and maintaining links and liaison with officers and staff of Social Services, General Practitioners, and other primary Health Care Workers.

l.       Attending clinical meetings, case reviews, and case conferences as appropriate.

m.       Maintaining/managing waiting lists for referrals to psychological services within the teams where the post holder is based as required

n.       Carrying out other clinical duties as may be agreed with the Chief Psychologist and Lead Psychologists.