Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized healthcare provider in Sunderland seeks a Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist responsible for conducting thorough psychological assessments and implementing treatment plans for clients. The successful candidate will collaborate with other professionals and manage a range of psychological interventions while addressing complex mental health issues. The role demands strong communication skills and experience in a clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in assessing and treating complex psychological issues.
• Ability to formulate and implement effective treatment plans.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary team settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments and treatment plans.
• Manage psychological interventions across various care settings.
• Offer guidance and consultation to other professionals.

Skills

Expertise in psychological assessments

Ability to manage diverse psychological interventions

Strong communication skills

Risk assessment and management

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological 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/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. 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 models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 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, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To ensure that all members of the service have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-disciplinary and multidisciplinary care. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment service. Will be required to tolerate and manage frequent verbal abuse and occasional physical aggression. Will be required to deal with the intense emotional atmosphere surrounding therapy contacts which may be highly distressing on a daily basis, and to work with frequent intense concentration for much of the clinical sessions of assessment and therapy. To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to the service, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of patients. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychology as appropriate. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.