Job responsibilities
Key Result Areas
CLINICAL
1 To provide specialist psychological assessments of individuals supported by the Hesley Group based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, which require accurate administration and timing, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with individuals, support staff, family members and others involved in their care.
2 To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological therapy and/or management of an individuals mental health problems, based upon anappropriate conceptual framework of the individuals problems, and employingmethods based upon evidence of efficacy. Negotiating the implementation of such plans and sharing of complex, sensitive, confidential, and at times contentious information.
3 To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4 To be involved with and help coordinate the implementation of Positive Behaviour Support plans across the service and help those people we support enjoy the best quality of life possible, helping people achieve their full potential.
5 To evaluate and make decisions about therapy 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.
6 To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to individuals formulation, and interventionplan.
7 To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all individuals of the service.
8 To undertake clinical risk assessment and risk management for individuals and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9 To communicate and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in the course of psychological therapy.
MANAGEMENT, RECRUITMENT, POLICY, SERVICE DEVELOPMENT, PLANNING, ORGANISATION, FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES:
1 To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of thecompanysoperational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2 To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3To suggest changes to the teams working practices in order to improve service quality.
4 To provide clinical supervision, as appropriate, to assistant and graduatepsychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
5 To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists.
6 To organise own diary to meet requirements of the job.
7 To attend regular Therapeutic Services departmental meetings.
TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
1 To receive regular clinical professional supervision appropriate to the development of highly specialist skills from a clinical psychologist in accordance with good professional practice guidelines.
2 To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical psychology.
3 To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision, including formal supervision training and to provide supervision too the MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
4 To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the individual group, where appropriate.
5 To contribute to training of other disciplines across a range of settings and agencies, where appropriate.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION
1 To utilise routinely theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2 To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, including electronic data entry, and analysis.
3 To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Responsibilities for information Resources:
1 To access knowledge through internet searches to keep up to date with clinical and professional development.
2 For the preparation and presentation of materials for effective teaching and training (e.g. power point, graphic representations) to record and analyse data for research and audit (e.g. databases, spreadsheets).
Communications and Working Relationships:
1 To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care.
2 To communicate highly complex theoretical information and formulations in a way that is clear and understandable to individuals and professionals.
3 To communicate controversial information in a sensitive manner and responding appropriately to challenges from those with opposing views.
4 To be effective in communicating psychological principles to managers, staff groups, individuals and carers in a manner that facilitates growth, development and consensus in situations where views can be divergent.
5 To communicate therapeutically with individuals with particular difficulties (e.g. limited verbal abilities, impaired memory, etc.) as relevant to the specialty.
6 To utilise the highest level of interpersonal skills when intervening therapeutically with individuals with severely challenging behaviour and/or mental illness.
7 To ensure high levels of formal and informal communication with relatives and professionals.
8 To manage frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotive disclosures including highly emotive conflict situations that are presented by individuals.
9 To relate effectively to professional colleagues and to build and maintain effective working relationships within all levels of the organisation.
