Job Purpose To improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with Learning disabilities and to provide psychological services to people who use services and staff in your area. This will be achieved in this post by: 1. Ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service to people with Learning Disabilities in Devon as a key component of Health and Social Care Partnership services. 2. Providing clinical leadership, coordination and supervision for staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology service. 3. Taking a leadership role in the delivery and development of psychological therapies for people with Learning Disabilities. 4. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing therapy, advice and consultancy to patients and professionals.
Responsibilities
* Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. Receiving regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the Health Professions Council/British Psychological Society.
* Contributing to the management of psychology services in the locality. Duties and Responsibilities Communication and Working Relationship Skills: The post holder will be responsible for overcoming a variety of barriers to communication when working with people who receive services who may be fearful of others, who may be experiencing high levels of emotional distress, unable to articulate their difficulties or who think within a very different frame of reference, requiring imaginative and sensitive approaches towards engagement. To communicate with a wide range of health and social care staff in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans for people who are under the services care.
* Providing support and guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques and fostering reflective practice. Dealing effectively with highly distressing service user and family situations (e.g. family breakdown, abuse, verbal aggression, challenging behaviour) and supporting other staff in their responses to such situations (through supervision, debriefing).
* Conducting specialist psychological, psychometric and neuropsychological assessments, preparing reports, and communicating complex, sensitive and distressing information to people who receive services and their families and carers. Making highly skilled evaluations and decisions regarding intervention and psychological management of patients, including risk management.
* Planning and organising the work of psychology within the Multidisciplinary Team and contributing to the development and improvement of the provision of psychological services for people with learning disabilities to best meet the organisation’s strategy and priorities.
* Leading and supervising psychology staff, trainees and volunteers, providing clinical placement for Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and delivering specialist advice and consultation to other service members on psychological aspects of learning disability and mental health.
* Maintaining accurate clinical records, compiling reports, and carrying out clinical audit and other administrative duties relating to clinical work.
* Carrying out research activities, contributing research knowledge and expertise to the service, and identifying and implementing service developments to enhance treatment opportunities for service users and carers.
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