Job responsibilities
JOB
PURPOSE
To provide a qualified clinical
psychology service to patients referred for outpatient clinical
neuropsychological assessment and treatment
To provide specialist psychological
assessment and therapy and also to offer advice and consultation on clients
psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other,
non-professional carers
To work autonomously within
professional guidelines and the overall frameworks of the policies and
procedures of the Department and Trust.
To utilise research skills for
audit, policy and service development and to lead on research projects within
the area served by the team/service.
3. JOB DIMENSIONS
Core
Develop and maintain communication
with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations
Develop own skills and knowledge
and provide information to others to help their development
Monitor and maintain health, safety
and security of self and others
Contribute to the improvement of
services
Maintain quality in own work and
encourage others to do so
Support equality and value
diversity
Health
and wellbeing
Plan, develop and implement
approaches to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects of
health and wellbeing
Assess health and wellbeing needs
and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet specific 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
Information
& Knowledge:
Gather, analyse, interpret and
present extensive and/or complex data and information
General:
Enable people to learn and develop
Test and review new concepts,
models, methods, practices, products and equipment
Supervise peoples work
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-centered
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
All
our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values
7. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS
1. To contribute to the development and
maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice through (a)
active participation in internal and external CPD training and development
programmes in consultation with the Lead
Psychologist and Department Supervision Co-ordinator, and (b) the
encouragement and active participation of service users in the design,
provision and evaluation of clinical services.
2. 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
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 British Psychological
Society and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To maintain up to date knowledge of
legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the
specific client group, mental health, clinical psychology, health psychology
and neuropsychology in general.
8. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Professional
knowledge
Skills
in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and
management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Well-developed
skills in the ability to communicate
effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or
clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a
wide range of lay and professional persons 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.
Understanding
of the department and organisation
Knowledge
and understanding of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals values and behaviours.
Knowledge
and understanding of the structure of the Clinical and Health Psychology
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 Neurology and Neurosurgery
Services.
9. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF
RESPONSIBILITY
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist psychological
assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use,
interpretation and integration of complex 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 clients care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for
the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients
psychological and mental health
problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients
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 specialist psychological
advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing
directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly
to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit
of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the
client group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk
management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions
on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management with
particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
9. To act as care coordinator, where
appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care
plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute health care setting)
including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the
network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and
sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and
treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during
the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching,
training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical
professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where
appropriate, other senior professional colleagues2.
2. To develop skills in the area of
professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide
supervision to other multidisciplinary staffs psychological work, as
appropriate.
3. To provide professional and clinical
supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to
contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical
psychologists.
4. To contribute to the pre- and
post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as
appropriate.
5. To provide advice, consultation and
training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies
and settings, where appropriate.
Management,
recruitment, policy and service development
1. To contribute to the development,
evaluation and monitoring of the Departments operational policies and
services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service
evaluation and audit.
2. To advise the Consultant Psychologist
on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational
matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant
and graduate psychologists within the framework of the Departments policies
and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in
the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research
and service evaluation
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based
literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work
and work with other team members.
2. To undertake, as a major component of
the post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff
undertaking research.
3. To lead on research projects within
the area served by the team/service.
4. To undertake project management,
including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the
service to help develop service provision.
