Educational Psychologist à Grande-Bretagne

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 client's care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's 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 and groups, within and across Cheshire and Merseyside 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 care.
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 treating 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 multi- disciplinary 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 sit in a constrained position for client therapy and extended assessment sessions.

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. This will include writing reports of a potentially distressing nature e.g., safeguarding adults.

Policy and Service Development
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.

Professional Leadership and Management
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 provide line management to psychological professions.

To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service

To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees, and qualified clinical psychologists.

Clinical Supervision, Teaching and Training

To provide clinical placements for trainee psychologists and psychological therapists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.

To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to recently qualified psychologists attached to the service.
To provide specialist advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the service for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients' functioning.

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.

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
In common with all Clinical Psychologists, receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines.

Receive specific specialist clinical supervision in psychological approaches in trauma focused /-related mental health issues and presentations.

Development of the team's operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring corporation psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high- quality care.

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To undertake a personal research and development programme and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research as a major job responsibility.

To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.

Information Technology
To use IT skills as required including updating client records.

General
To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.

GENERIC RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ALL STAFF
All post holders will agree to
Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust.

Role model the values of the Trust - Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support- in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders.

Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.

Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: 'The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.'

Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.

Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.
Value the contribution of the patient/ service user voice.

Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professional body.

Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications with staff, service users and other stakeholders.
take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.

Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.

Adhere to all organisational policies.

Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment.

Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees.

Attend a one day Just and Learning & Civility and Respect training workshop.

Be an ambassador for Just & Learning and Civility & Respect following the training.

Positively advocate the just and learning culture within your team.
Be a confident supporter and implementer of the Trust CARES Values including Civility & Respect within your team.

Support their team/ services to create a positive environment for Just and

Learning Culture.

Participate in Just and Learning Culture events.
Bring Just and Learning Culture updates/ information to the attention of team members and other MCT colleagues they work with.

Support and encourage the sharing of concerns about the safety and quality of care with senior leaders with the aim of improving safety and quality.

Actively participate in creating an open culture within your team so that concerns and difficulties can be discussed safely and respectfully.

Speaking up in the event that they are exposed to incivility between colleagues in the workplace #iwillspeakup.

Listening and understanding others who have concerns and taking a collaborative approach to work towards a solution to improve civility and respect.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist

Desirable criteria

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Post-qualification specialist training in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g., cognitive analytic psychotherapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, CFT, EMDR etc.
• Post-qualification specialist training in perinatal, maternal or parent-infant mental health

Knowledge / Experience

Essential criteria

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of attachment theory
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a variety of settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Specialist experience in the area of complex trauma- related mental health
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment
• Experience of planning and delivering ongoing training and CPD to clinical staff at steps two and three within a stepped care model
• Experience of planning and providing supervision of clinical staff at steps two and three within a stepped care model
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
• Expertise and knowledge across the spectrum of a perinatal and maternal mental health service
• Experience of working in Primary Care Services
• Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
• understanding of the national NHSE LTP for perinatal mental health

Desirable criteria

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings
• formal post-qualification supervision training
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Knowledge of models of leadership and experience of applying these in practice
• Knowledge and understand of maternal and perinatal mental health.
• Knowledge of perinatal trauma and loss

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly emotional situations.
• Able to lead a service and make decisions and judgments about the best possible way forward in a complex work environment where the evidence base is evolving
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership with a service sector.
• Ability to contain and work within organisational stress
• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological approaches and interest in models of service delivery and ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi- disciplinary team working.
• IT literate

Desirable criteria

• Line management experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 176.2KB)
• OH Risk ID (PDF, 392.6KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
• Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)
• Your Recruitment Journey (PDF, 291.0KB)