Responsibilities
* To provide highly skilled and sensitive communication with clients who may have difficulties understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.
* To work closely with multidisciplinary team colleagues on a day to day basis.
* To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, conveying complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
* To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across the Psychology and Psychological Therapies service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
* To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and service research and development activities.
* To contribute to the planning and organising of the psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
* To provide psychology / therapy knowledge to the multiprofessional planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services.
* To provide specialist psychological therapy expertise and advice, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
* To support the Professional Head, General Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within the team.
* To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the management of risk.
* To formulate plans for psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
* To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
* To support proposed changes for policy and for service development.
* To be careful in the use of equipment and to be responsible for supervision, leadership and management as required, including supervising assistants/trainees and providing supervision & consultancy to health and social care colleagues.
* To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust Practice Standards, and to be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to internal email traffic.
* To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and local mental health services; to support project work including specific areas of audit, research or service evaluation; as a clinician to collect clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
* To work autonomously within clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty; interpret professional and Trust guidelines, and implement policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and General Manager.
* To provide specialist Psychological therapy expertise and advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
* To ensure that all clinical care and treatment provided by psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership and that all relevant staff groups continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
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