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Job Summary:

To provide a qualified clinical psychology or psychotherapy service to adults with learning disabilities and service providers and carers within the Community.  To provide specialist assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychological services colleagues and other non-professional carers.  To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.  To use research skills for audit, service development and research.  Contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychological services.

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

Key Relationships:

Working with Adults with learning disabilities referred to the Community LD Health Team in Bucks.  Younger people may be worked with only if appropriate, for example, in preparation for transition into adult services.

Working alongside colleagues within health, social care teams and education.

Working under the Learning Disability and Forensic Strategic Business Unit within HPFT

Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Responsibility

• To hold a clinical workload as a member of Psychological Services and the Community LD Health Team.
• To provide specialist assessments of service users referred to the Community LD Health Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of psychological information from a variety of sources.
• To be responsible for formulation and implementation of therapy or treatments based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods of evidence based efficacy across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of therapy or psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups based on formulations and drawing on different explanatory psychological models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about therapy or treatment taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental processes, which have shaped the individual family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, therapy/treatment and discharge of service users.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to colleagues in the team, carers from the public/private and voluntary sector and families.
• To ensure members of team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding care of service users through provision of advice and consultation and dissemination of psychological research and theory. To advise, support and facilitate effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team.
• To undertake risk assessment and management of individual service users to provide advice for other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning assessment, formulation, therapy and treatment plans and to monitor and evaluate progress.
• To act as care co-ordinator, when required, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the service user needs, co-ordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging CPA 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.
• To be responsible for development of a specialist area of psychological interest and service in agreement with professional lead for Psychological Services and according to service priorities, to advise of and participate in service development in this area and be a resource for consultation to colleagues regarding this specialist area.
• To be a core member of the Community LD Health Team.

Teaching, Training & Supervision

• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior member of psychological services and line manager.
• To continue to gain a wider post-qualification experience in psychological services or psychotherapy.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological or psychotherapeutic work, as appropriate.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists and other psychological students.
• To contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology or psychotherapy, as appropriate.
• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Research & Service Evaluation

• To utilise evidence–based literature research to support practice and work.
• Undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff.
• To undertake project management including complex audit and service evaluation with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services.

Leadership and Staff Management Responsibility

• To be involved, as agreed with the professional lead, in the recruitment of psychological services staff when needed.
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Service Development and Improvement

• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To participate, in the development of a high quality responsive and accessible service.
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/organisational matters need addressing.
• Contribute to systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.

Other

• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and service manager(s).
• To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychological services across the service by continuing to develop the skills as a psychological practitioner or psychotherapist, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of psychotherapy and related disciplines.
• To maintain 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 and Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

Additional Information:

• Frequent travel required by car throughout the area covered by Community LD Health Team, as required.
• Flexibility to work in a variety of settings including service user’s homes, residential, day and in-patient services. An awareness and ability to assess and manage risk in these situations.
• Additionally the post holder has to work within the Trust’s manual handling policy, maintain intense concentration in all aspects of service user management, manage emotional consequences of working with distressing conditions and work in environments where there is occasional exposure to unpleasant conditions.