Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Bristol

Job overview

Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in Bristol Early Intervention Team, providing specialist psychological interventions, supervision and training.

The post holder will be an integral member of the Early Intervention team as well as being supported by psychology colleagues in the Complex Psychological Interventions team (CPI)

Main duties of the job

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and carers within the Bristol Early Intervention for Psychosis (EIP) Service.
• To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients’ formulation and psychological management to other non-psychologist colleagues.
• To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by the various teams in the area and where appropriate outside of the area.
• To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, CAPs and less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals.
• To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the Early Intervention team.
• To develop and deliver training in psychological therapies for multidisciplinary staff.
• To provide a lead role for the CPI within EIP team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CLINICAL

• To provide a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical/counselling psychology service.

• To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessment, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with clients and their carers (as appropriate to the role).

• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients’ mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

• To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within the EIP service employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

• To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service.

• To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of those teams.

• To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by teams.

• To be involved in the development and delivery of training within the Trust.

• To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.

• To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.

• To support the full implementation of CPA or equivalent including acting as care-coordinator as appropriate to the needs of the service.

• To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.

MANAGEMENT

• May include some management responsibilities for Band 7 clinical psychologist within the EIP team.

• Delegated caseload supervision.

• Represent the service at specialist meetings as requested.

• The co-ordination of small scale projects as requested.

PROFESSIONAL

• To fully adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the HCP. To fully observe the BPS (1996) Code of Conduct and the DCP Guidelines for the Professional Practice of Clinical Psychology (1995).

• To be aware of, adhere to, and where appropriate, contribute to the formulation and review of Trust, Area, Clinical Psychology policies and procedures. Copies of Trust Policies can be accessed via the staff intranet or from your manager.

• To participate in local psychological therapy and psychology meetings and trust wide meetings as appropriate.

• To maintain and develop high standards of clinical psychology practice by engaging in continuing professional development and co-operative working/networking with other clinical psychologists.

• To participate in an annual performance appraisal.

• To participate in clinical supervision.