Clinical Psychologist

Job responsibilities

Job title: Clinical Psychologist

Directorate: Operations

Reports to: Lead Clinical Psychologist

Grade: Band 7 equivalent

Purpose of the job:

To provide a high-quality specialist Clinical Psychology service within a neurorehabilitation setting, including neuropsychological assessment, psychological formulation and psychological therapy for clients. This will include individual and group interventions and may require joint working with family members and carers.

To be a Clinical Psychology resource and promote psychological theory and practice in relation to acquired brain injury (ABI) within the interdisciplinary team at Shaftesbury Icanho and to the wider professional community as required.

Main duties:

To undertake specialist neuropsychological assessments with clients. This will involve the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources, including clinical interviews and standardised neuropsychological tests.

To use the information from assessment to produce psychological formulations to help clients and the interdisciplinary team to make sense of the clients presentation.

To formulate and implement individual psychological intervention.

To facilitate psychologically-informed therapy groups. In some cases this will mean co-facilitation with other members of the clinical team.

To undertake risk assessment and management for individual clients and provide advice to other disciplines on psychological aspects of risk assessment management.

To provide psychologically-informed training and education to the clinical team.

To participate in team meetings to promote psychological theory within the clinical team.

To develop skills to provide specialist psychological consultation and reflective practice, in order to support the team to provide the appropriate level of psychological intervention to clients (i.e. psychological support levels 1 and 2).

To participate in interdisciplinary and multi-agency meetings concerning the delivery and development of the clinical service for clients.

To ensure a high standard of communication with carers, families, mental health services and other organisations pertinent to the delivery of the Icanho service.

To assist in the development of an ethos and clinical practice which is robust to external and internal scrutiny, and to promote evidence-based practice. To contribute to the undertaking of service evaluation and audit work within the psychology department and the wider service as agreed with the Lead Clinical Psychologist and Service Managers.

To support research in an appropriate capacity, including liaison with local universities.

To participate in, and deliver presentations, workshops, teaching and training internally to clients/carers and the Icanho interdisciplinary team and externally as appropriate.

To be responsible for, and be able to, evidence own personal and continuous professional development by undertaking relevant training, attending meetings and conferences. This will be in line with your personal development plan (in line with BPS guidelines) agreed with the Lead Clinical Psychologist and in line with the strategic development for the service.

To ensure that Clinical Psychology reports are written in a timely manner that reflects highly specialist knowledge and skill, and to maintain the highest standard of clinical record keeping.

To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.

To establish a high level of competence in utilisation of: computer-based tools of analysis, spreadsheets, databases and statistical packages contributing to accuracy of data collection, outcome measures and audit/research.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of relevant development and research in the field of brain injury rehabilitation, to inform evidence-based practice.

To receive regular management and clinical supervision which complies with Shaftesbury policy and procedures, and HCPC and BPS requirements.

To exercise responsibility and professional judgement for the appropriate and safe use of specialist psychological equipment and appropriate systems of stock control.

To comply with all Shaftesbury Health and Safety policies in order to ensure that a safe working environment is maintained for clients, carers, staff and visitors.

To be aware of current legislation e.g. POVA, (Safeguarding), Mental Capacity Act and the Disability Discrimination Act and their relevance to practice.

To adhere to all clinical governance policies and procedures.

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