The position requires the psychologist to perform functional assessments, develop Positive Behaviour Support plans, and provide psychological guidance to other professionals. In addition, the successful candidate will take on autonomous responsibilities for client assessment and treatment, contribute to a psychologically informed care framework, and manage risk assessments. The role demands effective communication skills to convey complex information regarding assessment and treatment plans sensitively, ensuring that the needs of clients are met across various care settings.
The aim of this role is to provide a psychology service to adults with a Learning Disability as a part of the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team. This will include providing psychological assessment, formulation and interventions directly and indirectly to service users, their families and wider systems. The post holder will also provide teaching, training, consultation and supervision to the wider team to facilitate a psychologically informed approach to service users and contribute to the ongoing training and development strategy. The post holder will supervise trainee and assistant psychologists and may supervise the psychological aspects of MDT work. The post holder will engage in audit, policy and service development and research.
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for people referred to the service, including assessing people's eligibility for a learning disability service. The psychologist will be expected to deliver services 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 clients, family members, the MDT and others involved in the client's care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological, mental health or behavioural problems, including autistic spectrum disorders, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To carry out Functional Assessments and formulate Positive Behaviour Support plans in addition to carrying out systemic work with care homes and families.
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1. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for people referred to the service, including assessing peoples eligibility for a learning disability service. The psychologist will be expected to deliver services 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 clients, family members, the MDT and others involved in the clients care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological, mental health or behavioural problems, including autistic spectrum disorders, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To carry out Functional Assessments and formulate Positive Behaviour Support plans in addition to carrying out systemic work with care homes and families.
4. 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 drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
5. 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, family or group.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
7. To provide highly specialist psychological advice guidance, and consultation to other Professionals, contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of their admission
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