Clinical Psychologist - 8A - Croydon

Eden Brown Synergy; Croydon; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical

1. To work autonomously providing expert psychological advice within the Tier 3 obesity service based on clinical evidence for clinical caseload of patients, with a range of clinical conditions and needs, associated with morbid obesity.
2. To develop and provide a psychological aspect of Tier 3 to the residents within the borough of Croydon as part of the multidisciplinary Tier 3 obesity service, acting as key resource within the team.
3. To deliver group sessions and one-to-one sessions for patients on the pathway both in-person and via MS Teams or other virtual appointment solutions, implementing a range of psychological interventions, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To collaboratively formulate and implement plans for the psychological management of a client's psychological adjustment and mental health problems using a range of approaches, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems and challenges, and employing methods based on evidence of efficacy.
5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
6. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual or group.
7. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by creative and flexible psychologically based care plans.
8. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
9. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
10. To work with other agencies within the borough of Croydon to deliver service to harder-to-reach groups to help address inequalities.
11. To take the lead in providing highly specialist psychological advice to the multidisciplinary team through attendance and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings.
12. To participate in health promotion activities as identified by the Operational & Clinical Lead for Dietetics.
13. To fulfil any other duties delegated by the Operational & Clinical Lead for Dietetics.