Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the
psychological health & wellbeing of people within the post holders
specialist field of practice.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the
following areas of responsibility:
1.
Providing a Psychological Therapy
service to people as a key component
of services provided by Devon
Partnership Trust
2.
Providing local clinical leadership,
co-ordination and supervision for
trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology and
Psychological Therapies service, under the general direction and supervision of
the Professional Lead
Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and
providing advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and
professionals.
3.
The post holder will be supported by
senior colleagues within their specialist field. The post holder will be
expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to
further develop their clinical skills with this client group.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines
and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological
practice within the service / local team.
4. The post holder
will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to
Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by their
professional association. They will observe
and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including
the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully
registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a condition of
employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication
and Working Relationships
- Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled
and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in
understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or
highly emotionally disturbed.
- Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in
the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a
day to day basis.
- Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of
health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a
highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of
psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
- Senior managers & professional
staff: To
maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff
and managers across the Psychology and Therapy service and in DPT to foster a
positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and
to enable effective negotiation.
Planning
and Organisation
- The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the
demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and
service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the
psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to
the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within
services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy
knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of
mental health and wellbeing services.
- Responsibility
for Judgement and Analysis
- To
provide specialist Psychological therapy expertise and advice.
- To
provide psychological therapies/other therapies, developing specialist
psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for
their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological
interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
- To support the Professional Head, General
Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by
undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the
resulting work within the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment
and Therapy
- Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations
and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the
management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and
implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers,
families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and
consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other
service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Policy,
Service, Research, Innovation and Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional
actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional
Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes for
policy and for service development.
Responsibility
for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and
Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants
&/or trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to
health and social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with
professional guidelines
Information
Resources and Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust
Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to generate,
monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much
of its internal communication.
Responsibility
for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research
to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and
local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific areas of audit,
research or service evaluation
- As a
clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data
that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom
to Act
- The post holder is accountable for
their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures
and Professional Practice Guidelines
- To work autonomously within
clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation
of professional and Trust guidelines,
and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and
General Manager.
- To provide specialist Psychological
therapy expertise and advice
guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to
colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Any
Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by
psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously
update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
Review of this
Job Description
This job
description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity
and will be amended in the light of changing service needs. This job
description is to be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on an annual
basis.
General Information
Equality &
Diversity
Devon Partnership
NHS Trust is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and so
we welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age,
disability, sex, race, religion or sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, marriage/civil
partnership or transgender status. The Trust expects all staff to behave in a
way which recognises and respects this diversity in line with the appropriate
standards.
Recovery
It is a
requirement of all employees to have an understanding of the broad principles
of the Recovery Approach and to incorporate them into every aspect of their
work in support of the Trusts aim to provide services that support peoples
recovery through being holistic and promoting social inclusion, self
management, personal autonomy and independence.
Risk Management
/ Health and Safety
Employees must be
aware of the responsibilities placed on them under the Health & Safety at
Work Act 1974, ensure that agreed safety procedures are carried out and
maintain a safe environment for employees, patients and visitors.
Records
Management
The post holder
has responsibility for the timely and accurate creation, maintenance and
storage of records in accordance with Trust policy, including email documents
and with regard to the Data Protection Act, The Freedom of Information Act and
any other relevant statutory requirements.
