Clinical Direct Responsible for offering comprehensive specialist assessments to adults with learning disabilities, their families and paid carers when the need for psychological assessment is indicated, and using these assessments as the basis for establishing and evaluating therapeutic interventions. This includes carrying out specialist cognitive psychometric assessments as necessary Interpret the results of these assessments to make appropriate psychological formulations, judgements, and recommendations for interventions. This process involves careful consideration, drawing on specialist psychological knowledge of theories and models to make sense of complex facts or situations. Work autonomously in a variety of contexts, including in the community, which may at times involve working with clients with complex needs in their own homes. This includes face-to-face sessions with individual clients and families. Work effectively and reflectively, maintaining sustained attention and concentration for considerable periods of time. Verbally communicate highly complex and sensitive information, often requiring empathy and reassurance, in potentially hostile or highly emotive environments. Be accountable for ones own professional actions and work within the clinical psychology code of practice and ethics, and Trust policies and procedures. Communicate complex information and formulations to a range of people, including families, carers, service users and professionals from psychology and other disciplines, both within the team and outside agencies. Adapt verbal and non-verbal communication to facilitate clients understanding. Liaise appropriately with all agencies involved and keep them informed of relevant information and recommended guidelines necessary to provide high standards of care for clients, within the recommended limits of confidentiality. Provide a clinical service to clients from a range of minority ethnic populations, using an appropriate specialist person-centred approach to care that considers language, religion, cultural beliefs and customs, and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate. Communicate across language and cultural barriers, jointly working with and offering debriefing and/or supervision to interpreters as required. CLINICAL Indirect: Use a broad theoretical knowledge base and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of other staff members, professionals, and paid and unpaid carers through teaching, training, supervision, support and consultation. Offer specialised advice, guidance and support, both formally and informally, to staff in the joint community team for people with learning disabilities, staff teams in statutory and voluntary organisations, and families and carers of people with learning disabilities. Provide a psychological perspective and expertise for service or team activities, including clinical care, team or service dynamics and organisation, in a range of settings, e.g. case discussions and team meetings Responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations. Receive regular clinical management supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines to ensure high-quality work, engage in the Individual Performance Review process and continuing professional development, and work within a clinical governance framework. Administration: Plan and prioritise own clinical workload and work with multidisciplinary colleagues on complex cases in the setting most appropriate to the clients and/or services needs. Record, monitor and report on clinical work, and communicate complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. service users, families, carers, other professionals, and statutory and voluntary organisations) orally, in writing and electronically, as specified by the service. Maintain client records as an autonomous practitioner. Management: Contribute, as a member of relevant working groups, to the development, implementation and evaluation of the team. Implement Trust and local policies. Organise own day-to-day activities, and plan and prioritise own clinical and non-clinical workload Identify, propose and lead changes to work practices and procedures in own area of work, and join working groups leading service-wide and specialist developments as appropriate Human Resources: Supervise the work of assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists where applicable Responsibility for clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists (once appropriate post-qualification experience has been gained and with appropriate training), teaching and training of staff from other disciplines in the wider team and in other statutory and voluntary sector agencies in the wider community. To participate in Trust appraisal and be committed to ongoing continuing professional development, including participation in further specialist training as agreed with supervisor/head of department. Develop and deliver, jointly with other psychologists where appropriate, teaching activities for clinical psychology doctoral training programmes and in-service training programmes within the team and the Trust.
£55,524 – £62,652 per annum and agenda for change
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