For full details please see attached job description. To undertake and advise other psychologists in highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments of complex cases, assessing cognition, personality, beliefs, attitudes, behaviour, emotional function, and other relevant psychological characteristics and dimensions and factors relevant to the development, maintenance and understanding of the clients neuropsychological difficulties as appropriate. To develop highly complex formulations and implement plans for the formal neuropsychological treatment and/or management of a clients highly complex psychological problems, including family breakdown, serious mental illness, vulnerable adults and aggressive and violent behaviour, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, using advanced and practical knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices across the full range of care settings, where frequent and intense concentration is required. To develop and implement highly complex plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of the clients presenting problems, that are based upon highly specialist and advanced knowledge and an appropriate conceptual framework, that employ psychological procedures and practices having an evidence base for their efficacy and/or an established theoretical basis for their use.
To propose and implement policy or service changes and developments, particularly those that enhance the availability and accessibility of psychologically informed clinical practice or that otherwise improve the efficacy, efficiency or quality of the service offered by the MDT. In this respect designs, implements and evaluates clinical, governance and service initiatives and co-ordinates the work of others involved as appropriate