Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity to recruit to a band 8a Clinical Psychologist within our u14 CAMHS service at Mary Chapman House in Norwich. This is full time maternity cover role. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to join us and help us continue to ensure that we provide an excellent service for children who are in care, adopted or under SGO, and their carers and families.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• Provide specialist psychological assessments for individuals, carers, and families using:

• Neuropsychological and psychometric tools

• Self-report measures and rating scales

• Structured observations and interviews

• Formulate and implement psychological treatment and management plans using appropriate conceptual frameworks.

• Deliver a range of psychological interventions to patients, carers, and families.

• Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options, considering:

• Therapeutic models

• Historical and developmental factors

• Assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users

• Ensuring appropriate care plans and communication with referral agents

• Provide specialist psychological expertise to support the clinical team in delivering effective care.

• Ensure the clinical team has access to psychologically informed frameworks through:

• Advice and consultation

• Dissemination of psychological theory and research

• Conduct risk assessments and provide expert advice on psychological aspects of risk management.

• Communicate assessment findings, formulations, and treatment plans in a skilled and sensitive manner.

• Monitor and evaluate progress of individuals on caseload as well as as a team

• Where appropriate, and when supported by another senior clinician, to offer psychological support to staff following critical incidents.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical Provision of specialist clinical psychology assessment of individuals , carers and families  referred to the Service, using and interpreting complex psychological data from a variety of  sources, e.g. neuropsychological and psychometric assessments, self-report measures, rating  scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews, offence  analysis. Formulation and implementation of formal psychological treatment and/or management plans,  based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user’s problems.  Responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for patients and, where  appropriate, carers and families. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about  treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex  factors concerning historical and developmental processes. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and  discharge of people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care  plans under the care of this post holder. To ensure appropriate assessment, formulation and  Page | 3 Generic 2016 interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a  regular basis. To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge, advice, guidance and  consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all  members of the Service clinical team. To ensure that all members of the Service clinical team have access to psychologically based  frameworks for the understanding and care of service users within the service, through the  provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge,  research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and management for individual service users and to provide  specialist clinical psychology advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk  assessment and management. To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information regarding the assessment,  formulation and treatment plans of service users. To monitor and evaluate progress during the  course of uni and multi-disciplinary care. To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge and advice on staff support and  critical incident stress management for staff within the Service following critical incidents. To  also provide the same (where appropriate and as directed by the Consultant Clinical  Psychologist) within NSFT and for external agencies. To discharge statutory social care functions as delegated under Section 75 agreement with  Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils for Service Users and Carers on behalf of the  organisation. To provide appropriate health and social care interventions according to service users recovery  goals. To assess health and social care needs as part of an integrated team, and implement /  commission packages of care where appropriate.