Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

NHS Jobs; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to provide highly specialist psychological assessments and formulations across a range of settings, using ecological models and standardized measures. The role emphasizes comprehensive assessment and collaborative care.

You will deliver treatment plans, oversee risk assessment, and provide expert consultation to multidisciplinary teams, supporting service users and families within the Recovery Approach framework.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and formulations across a range of settings using ecological models and standardized measures.
• Lead treatment planning and risk assessment, delivering expert psychological input and consultation to multidisciplinary teams.

Job description

Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Provide well developed, highly specialist psychological assessments,based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration ofcomplex data from a variety of sources (including psychological tests,measures/rating scales including Recovery measures and Quality ofLife measures, direct and indirect observation and semi-structuredinterviews with clients, family members and involved others.) Touse the ecological model of formulation to understand with theperson their symptoms and behaviours in relation to theirexperiences and wider social context. Formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/ormanagement of mental health problems across a range of caresettings at population, systemic and individual levels, based upon atheoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare highlycomplex information in order to design specialist programmes oftreatment for individuals, groups and families, care systems andpopulations tailored to individual need. To provide well developed, highly specialist expertise andpsychological advice, guidance and consultation to othermultidisciplinary professionals contributing directly to service usersformulation, diagnosis and service planning. Ensure thatmultidisciplinary colleagues have access to a psychologically basedframework for understanding the care of service users including theRecovery Approach. To undertake well developed, highly specialist risk assessment andmanagement and to provide highly specialist advice on psychologicalaspects of risk assessment and management holding in mind therelevant legal frameworks. To be responsible for providing and receiving highly complex,sensitive, distressing and emotional information in relation to healthissues where there are often barriers to acceptance. To spend sustained amounts of time with service users who may beaggressive and hostile, who may have poor communication skills andself-care and special physical and/or mental needs. To be mindful of the needs of individuals and families from a widerange of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgroundsand, with service users and colleagues, co-produce innovative waysof communicating and working across language and cultural barriers.