Job responsibilities
To
provide a qualified specialist clinical or counselling psychology service to
patients who are seen within the designated clinical speciality/area, across
all sites and sectors of care by:
a) Providing specialist psychological
assessments and therapy
b) Offering advice and consultation on
patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist
colleagues and to other non-professional carers
c) Developing, supporting and
maintaining effective working relationships with other disciplines within the
service areas, including attending Team meetings
d) Using research skills for audit,
policy and service development and leading on research projects within the
area served by the team/service
e) Proposing and implementing policy
changes within the specialist area served
f) Line managing Early Career and
Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologists in the discrete clinical
speciality that the post covers and making a contribution to the general
management, governance and supervision of the clinical/counselling psychology
service as agreed
g) Working autonomously in the delivery
of these duties within professional guidelines, the evidence-based literature
and the overall framework of the Team, Department of Clinical & Health
Psychology and Trust policies and procedures.
3. JOB DIMENSIONS
National
KSF profile
Develop and maintain communication
with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations
Develop oneself and contribute to
the development of others
Monitor and maintain health, safety
and security of self and others
Contribute to the improvement of
services
Contribute to improving quality
Promote equality and value
diversity.
Health
and wellbeing:
Plan, develop and implement
approaches to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on
health and wellbeing
Assess complex health and wellbeing
needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet those needs
Contribute to protecting people at
risk
Assess physiological and
psychological functioning when there are complex and/or undifferentiated
abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop, monitor and review related
treatment plans
Plan, deliver and evaluate
interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and/or serious
illness.
General:
Plan, deliver and review
interventions to enable people to learn and develop
Test and review new concepts,
models, methods, practices, products and equipment
Prioritise and manage the ongoing
work of services and/or projects
Plan, allocate and supervise the
work of a team.
6. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our
values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this
as a strength as well as a responsibility.
They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as
important to how we work. Our five
values are:
Patient-centred
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
All
our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.
7. WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE
TRUSTS (WYAAT)
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of
Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across
West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible
care for our patients.
By
bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West
Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving
forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT
is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care
Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The
Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and
wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that
ambition.
8. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS
1. To ensure the development,
maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of
practice through (a) active participation in internal and external CPD
training and development programmes and (b) the encouragement and
facilitation of the active participation of service users in the design,
provision and evaluation of clinical services.
2. To ensure the development and
articulation 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 clinical
supervision* and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current
developments in the field of clinical or counselling psychology and related
disciplines.
3. 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 of the HCPC, British
Psychological Society (BPS) and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To contribute to the development and
articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing
to develop 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 or
counselling psychology and related disciplines.
5. To maintain up to date knowledge of
legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the
specific client group, mental health, clinical/counselling psychology and
health psychology in general.
*
Please note that all post holders of clinical psychology posts receive
clinical supervision. This is not to be confused with management supervision
in AFC terms
9. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Professional
knowledge:
Skills in the use of complex
methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
Well-developed skills in the
ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly
technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their
families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside
the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to
other professional and non-professional groups
Doctoral level knowledge of
research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis
as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Evidence of continuing professional
development as recommended by the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Understanding
of the Department and Organisation
Knowledge and understanding of the
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) values and behaviours
Knowledge and understanding of the
structure of the Clinical and Health Psychology Department (the Department)
Knowledge and understanding of the
Department operational policies
Knowledge and understanding of
Trust policies and procedures
Knowledge and understanding of the
structure of the LTHT and of the designated clinical speciality/area and
Clinical Support Unit (CSU).
9. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF
RESPONSIBILITY
Clinical
1. To provide specialist psychological
assessments of patients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate
use, interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of
sources including neuropsychological and psychological tests, self-report
measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and
semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved
in the patients care.
2. To formulate, develop and implement
plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients
psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the
patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy,
across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a
range of 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.
4. 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.
5. To exercise autonomous professional
responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose
problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide highly specialised
psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals
contributing directly to patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment
plans.
7. To ensure that all relevant
professionals have access to a psychologically based framework for
understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of
advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and
theory.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk
management for individual patients and to provide general advice to other
professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management with
particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
9. To act as care co-ordinator, where
appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care
plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care
setting) including patients, their carers, referring agents and others
involved in the network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and
sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and
treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor and evaluate
progress during the course of care.
