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In addition, the role requires maintaining high standards of professional training, offering supervision to clinical psychology trainees, and leading clinical research efforts. The postholder will also engage in continuous professional development, remain updated on best practices, and evaluate operational policies to enhance the quality of psychological care provided within the team.
This post is for a CS12 psychologist to lead the psychological provision with the aid of an assistant psychologist within our adult inpatient mental health ward. Psychology is valued with Inpatient Services and has an established and important presence there. This role would include clinical work as well as supervision and delegated line management of the psychology staff based on Orchard House.
The Inpatient Psychology service provides staff support, debriefing and team formulation sessions as well as individual and group work with service users. The post holder will also be expected to be active in supporting service development to help ensure efficient and therapeutic practice across the inpatient environment, good communication, service user involvement, and recovery-orientated and positive risk formulation approaches. An interest in working within complex healthcare systems would be an advantage, as would demonstrable experience of offering training, team formulation, supervision and consultation. For an informal discussion please contact Olivia Card
You would work alongside a full multidisciplinary inpatient team, including psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, art therapy and HCA specialities. You will lead the assistant psychologist at Orchard House Inpatient unity and be supported and receive specialist supervision from the lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Adult Mental Health employed within the care group.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients admitted to the inpatient service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological 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 clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems including developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal patterns of relating, service, and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations which draw upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
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To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
To provide core clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to be responsible for the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to clinical psychologists attached to the team.
To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning.
To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology as appropriate.
To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
To provide professional management and clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and assistant and senior assistant clinical psychologists working in the service sector to which the postholder is attached.
To take the psychology lead, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the teams operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research including doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and assistant and senior assistant clinical psychologists undertaking research as appropriate.
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