Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established team within community mental health. Psychology is highly valued by the team and is seen as a core component of service provision.

The post holder/s will mainly focus on the provision of specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist Psychological Service to clients with moderate to severe mental health problems in clusters 5 – 17 + 0.
• Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists, and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care.
• Utilize research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.
• Propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
• Engage in service development initiatives, provide teaching/training, and consultation across the Trust.

Tasks

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of 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 client’s care.
• Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy including CBT, across the full range of care settings.
• Be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• 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.
• Provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses, and treatment plans.