Clinical Psychologist Band 7/8a Preceptorship

NHS Jobs; Runcorn, Widnes; Sur place; GBP 43 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NHS Jobs is seeking a Clinical Psychologist for a Band 7/8a Preceptorship. The role involves specialist psychological assessments, formulation and delivery of evidence-based interventions, risk assessment, and care planning across multidisciplinary teams in the NHS.

You will provide autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge, coordinate enhanced CPA care where appropriate, and advise on psychological aspects of risk and care planning within a comprehensive

Description du poste

Clinical Psychologist Band 7/8a Preceptorship

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales,direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients,family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/ormanagement of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptualframework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory modelsand maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses where appropriate. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmentalprocesses that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard careplans. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment ofclients whose problems are managed by psychologically based enhanced care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionalscontributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understandingand care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving theclient group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provideadvice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and riskmanagement. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning andreviewing of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agentsand others involved in the network of care. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment,formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress duringthe course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.