Job Description & Person Specification for Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Practitioner (HCPC registered)
The Service:
The Apricot Centre is an Ofsted Registered Wellbeing Service for Children and Families and a sustainable diverse farm, working in an integrative manner to 'cultivate sustainability in land, lives and livelihoods'.
The Wellbeing Service provides an Adoption Support Service to looked after and adopted children, their carers and their families, informed by theories of attachment, trauma and child development
Job Purpose:
To provide high quality initial assessments, multidisciplinary assessments, and bespoke therapeutic packages.
Job Description:
To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulation and psychologically informed therapeutic interventions.
To evaluate and make decisions about therapy options.
To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals
To undertake risk assessment and risk management.
To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment to children, their carers, families, commissioners and the MDT.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and to work with other team members
Specific Responsibilities:
To work by agreed contract (predefined costed interventions) to deliver:
* specialist psychological assessments (ie. WISCV cognitive assessments)
* 1:1 therapies with children, adolescents or adults
* therapeutic parenting work
* family interventions
* to hold and participate in multi professional meetings and therapeutic reviews
* to write professional reports using the ACWS report templates and GSuite
* To work with the Service Manager and ACWS Coordinators to ensure that services are delivered professionally and within our external and internal contracts.
* to regularly keep up to date with service guidance through case supervision, updates, and peer support
* to attend Practitioner Case Support meetings, suggested 8 per year
* to work within the code of ethics of your registered practice.
* to maintain a safe and healthy working environment for the young people - including working closely with ACWS safeguarding and child protection policies.
* to maintain the highest standards of record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC, BPS and service policies and procedures.
* to safely store and archive all therapeutic records in a confidential environment according to the ACWS information policies. This involves recording on our CRM system.
* to work closely with GDPR processes developed within ACWS to gain explicit consent from our service users.
* to ensure your professional qualifications, registrations, enhanced DBS, professional insurance, and your safeguarding and other training is current and always up to date.
Terms and Conditions/Requirements:
* The Practitioner to hold a self-employed status and to always hold a valid professional liability cover whilst working for the ACWS
* To have attended Level 3 Safeguarding Training within the last 3 years
* To be familiar with and work in accordance with ACWS' policies and procedures
* To complete all work as pre-agreed according to the time frames and conditions of the intervention, unless there are exceptional circumstance as agreed formally with the service manager or coordinator.
* To work according to the pre-agreed rates and times agreed within each individual contract/intervention, and to raise with managers before the onset of work if the conditions are not satisfactory.
* To invoice monthly (unless otherwise agreed) for work undertaken.
* To hold a disclosure at enhanced level from the Criminal Records Bureau
* To record and respond immediately to any safeguarding concerns.
Personal skills and attributes:
A willingness to grow and develop both professionally and personally
A willingness to engage in creative dialogues around your clients and wider team involvement.
A willingness to learn new IT skills and procedural systems.
Person Specification:
Qualifications
Degree level or Postgrad or Equivalent qualification in an accredited Therapeutic approach
Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist.
Evidence of continuing professional development
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by HCPC
Significant experience of undertaking specialist and multidisciplinary assessments with formulations
Significant experience and evidence of therapeutic work with young people, carers, and parents with complex presentations, including safeguarding
Experience and confidence in attending multidisciplinary meetings.
Experience of facilitation and/or therapeutic work with groups
Experience of working in a health, social care and/or community setting
Demonstrate extensive and specialist knowledge and experience of working with adoption support services and adopted/looked after children
Knowledge/ Experience of working within a social enterprise and or third sector
Excellent standard of written communication and report writing
Excellent standard of verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Excellent standard of empathic skills and self awareness
Ability to reflect, recognise impact upon others and receive feedback. A willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change.
Able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of issues related to equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
Ability to manage own workload, including prioritising key tasks and setting clear targets for intervention
Ability to work independently and flexibly to delivery high quality, safe and effective therapeutic services
Good IT skills in particular the use of cloud based systems such as Google Workplace and CRM or similar recording systems
Job Type: Freelance
Pay: £80.00-£100.00 per hour
Benefits:
* Flexitime
* On-site parking
Licence/Certification:
* HCPC registration (required)
Work Location: In person