Job responsibilities
Relationships/Communications
- establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication. These will include, but are not limited to:
Internal Relationships
- cPTSD Pathway colleagues
- Other Complex Emotional Needs pathways (Personality Disorder & Mood Anxiety and Personality) staff
- Core Team Clinicians
- Senior Management
- Trust Services
External Relationships
- Haringey Council
- Housing Associations
- Primary Care
- Voluntary/Community Sector Organisations
- Other NHS Trusts
- Charities
- Placements Training Institutions
Key Responsibilities
- Managing and supervising the work of clinical staff within the pathway including the provision of reflective practice
- maintaining the smooth running of the programme for service users under the pathway
- direct provision of therapies supported by NICE guidelines (including EMDR, CBT, and other appropriate models and model-informed treatments) to individuals or groups with a highly complex mental health issue
- specialist assessment in line with a core discipline
- providing advice and consultation on service users psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues individually and in group
- supervising and supporting the psychological assessment, therapies and interventions provided by other psychological therapists, clinical members of the team and trainee psychological therapists
- developing and delivering expert cPTSD training and pre- and post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to prequalification and qualified psychological therapists and other MDT professionals
- supporting the implementation of systems for the evaluation, monitoring and development of services.
- involvement in research, policy and service development
Communication
Communicate complex and potentially contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with service users who may be extremely hostile or highly emotional requiring the highest level of communication skills.
Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Manage potentially complex staff issues or work planning/scheduling.
Work effectively as one member of the tripartite management structure within the South East Locality Team. This involves close working with the Team Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist to ensure the smooth running of the South East Locality Team and the provision and management of psychological therapies within the team.
Patient/Customer Care (both direct and indirect)
Responsible for the smooth running of the cPTSD Pathway, which involves responsibility for the screening, assessment, treatment and discharge of service users within the pathway.
Responsible for the screening, assessment and treatment planning of service users in cPTSD pathway requiring psychological support for complex, non-psychotic psychological difficulties.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
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.
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.
Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
Ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
Provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
Resource Management
Exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of patients.
Financial responsibility
Contribute to decision making around how psychological pathway budget is used
Responsibility for Human Resources
Use a broad theoretical knowledge base and specialist clinical skills to train and support qualified psychological therapists, other clinical and MDT staff including Assistant Psychologists, AMHWs and community nurses, honoraries and trainees through teaching, supervision and consultation.
Provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning.
Maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision. To develop and maintaining knowledge of local resources and develop working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
Responsibility for Administration
Work alongside administration managers to contribute to the smooth delivery of admin provision to the pathway/team
Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services
- send and receive email, including attachments.
- competently use a word processing package
- use a database package.
- use computers to write reports and record data, including the use of statistical packages as part of psychological testing, research and assessment when needed. To be able to use research databases and advanced tools for analysis at both quantitative and qualitative levels
Policy / Service Development
Participate, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the teams operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.
Service Development
Participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
Exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
Participate, as appropriate, in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees, qualified clinical psychologists and other clinical staff.
Research And Development
Maintain professional standards of CPD/development and contribute to the learning of others
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.
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 professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
Maintain and promote 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.
Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
General
All staff are responsible for the continual compliance with CQC standards and outcomes.
The postholder must be aware of, and work in line with, the Trusts Safeguarding Adults and Children procedures.
Personal Development
All staff are required to be appraised by their line managers at least once a year at a personal development review meeting where progress made over the last year is discussed and agreed. Focus on the following years departmental and personal objectives will be identified, discussed and agreed. Where necessary, help and support will be provided and development opportunities agreed in line with service provision and the knowledge and skills competency framework.
