Psychologist • Retford Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nPsychologist with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Retford\n\n This post is a 12 month position covering maternity leave. The role will involve providing a comprehensive clinical and forensic psychology service to a named caseload of patients and ward team(s) within the National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women (NHSHSW), as part of an integrated trauma informed care pathway. The post holder will have the opportunity to gain wider post-qualification experience of trauma-informed and gender sensitive psychological provision, as part of an agreed personal development plan. This includes opportunity to develop expertise in the delivery of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, as well as offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to other members of the clinical team. The team currently comprises qualified Clinical and Forensic Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and Clinical Nurse Practitioners. Clinical and Forensic Trainee Placements are also supported within the service. We welcome applications from all practitioner psychologists. We will consider applications from candidates who are close to qualification (within six months). To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, and provide advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to other members of the clinical team. Please refer to the attached Job Description for a more detailed overview of the main duties of the job. About us To provide psychological assessments to patients within the NHSHSW, 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 patients and others involved in the patients care. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessments and interventions with patients on their caseload To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, individual and group, 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. 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. To liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate in a skilled, persuasive and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment formulation and treatment plans of patients, and to monitor progress during the course of their multidisciplinary care. To disseminate knowledge and skills in general aspects of forensic clinical psychology This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with their line manager. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post-holder. "}