Devon Partnership NHS Trust rQSZNtRl
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 understanding 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 and 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 Trust. To foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
- The psychology service: To plan and organise own work within the service setting and to contribute to the development and improvement of the provision of psychological services within the Perinatal Mental Health teams 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 the perinatal mental health service
Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis
- To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise and advice.
- To provide assessments; to develop specialist psychological formulations and plans for psychological treatment; and to implement specialist psychological interventions for individuals, couples, families and groups. Experience of both individual and couple/family/group approaches is required.
- To support the Professional Lead, Perinatal Service Managers, Practice and Strategic
- Development Leads and Head of Profession 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 provide expert psychological assessments; develop specialist psychological formulations and plans for psychological treatment and implement specialist psychological interventions for individuals, couples, families and groups. To make skilled evaluations about the management of risk. To demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of client 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 policy changes and service development within the Perinatal Mental Health Team, the Psychological and Psychological Therapy Service and the Trust.
- R & D: To support the R&D activities of the Perinatal Mental Health Teams and the Psychology and Psychological Therapy Service.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- To be responsible for the safe keeping of equipment under own use.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants, trainees and/or volunteers as required.
- 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 Perinatal Mental Health Service and Psychology and Psychological Therapies service.
- 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. To participate in service audits and relevant research projects.
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 clinical/counselling psychology/psychological therapy expertise and advice/guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of client care to clients, colleagues, other service providers, supporters and families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership.
- To ensure continuous updating of skills and techniques relevant to the clinical work.
The principal purpose of this job is to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of women using the Perinatal Mental Health Service, their babies and their families.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:
1.Providing a Clinical Psychology service to peopleusing the Perinatal Mental Health service,as a key component of services provided by Devon Partnership Trust
2.Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to clients, family members, carers and professionals.
3.Providing clinical supervision for trainees and volunteers employed by, or attached to, the Perinatal Mental Health Teams, and to the Psychology Service, as required.
4.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.
5.Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within professional andTrust guidelines.
6.Receiving regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society.
7.Observing, and abiding by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice. The post holder will be fully registered with the appropriate recognized professional body.
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 understanding 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 and 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 Trust. To foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
- The psychology service: To plan and organise own work within the service setting and to contribute to the development and improvement of the provision of psychological services within the Perinatal Mental Health teams 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 the perinatal mental health service
Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis
- To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise and advice.
- To provide assessments; to develop specialist psychological formulations and plans for psychological treatment; and to implement specialist psychological interventions for individuals, couples, families and groups. Experience of both individual and couple/family/group approaches is required.
- To support the Professional Lead, Perinatal Service Managers, Practice and Strategic
- Development Leads and Head of Profession 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 provide expert psychological assessments; develop specialist psychological formulations and plans for psychological treatment and implement specialist psychological interventions for individuals, couples, families and groups. To make skilled evaluations about the management of risk. To demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of client 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 policy changes and service development within the Perinatal Mental Health Team, the Psychological and Psychological Therapy Service and the Trust.
- R & D: To support the R&D activities of the Perinatal Mental Health Teams and the Psychology and Psychological Therapy Service.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- To be responsible for the safe keeping of equipment under own use.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants, trainees and/or volunteers as required.
- 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 Perinatal Mental Health Service and Psychology and Psychological Therapies service.
- 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. To participate in service audits and relevant research projects.
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 clinical/counselling psychology/psychological therapy expertise and advice/guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of client care to clients, colleagues, other service providers, supporters and families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership.
- To ensure continuous updating of skills and techniques relevant to the clinical work.
The principal purpose of this job is to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of women using the Perinatal Mental Health Service, their babies and their families.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:
1.Providing a Clinical Psychology service to peopleusing the Perinatal Mental Health service,as a key component of services provided by Devon Partnership Trust
2.Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to clients, family members, carers and professionals.
3.Providing clinical supervision for trainees and volunteers employed by, or attached to, the Perinatal Mental Health Teams, and to the Psychology Service, as required.
4.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.
5.Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within professional andTrust guidelines.
6.Receiving regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society.
7.Observing, and abiding by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice. The post holder will be fully registered with the appropriate recognized professional body.
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