Psychologist

Job overview

The Community Rehabilitation Team offers an enhanced and intensive service to individuals requiring specialist interventions to support and enhance their recovery and rehabilitation   in line with National Guidance and best practice.  Working in the team as a senior member of the MDT you will both deliver clinically and support the team in developing and maintaining  psychologically lead approaches to the client group. You will support the teams individual work   through education, supervision, role modelling, formulation  and consultation.  You will be a key member of the Trusts wider rehabilitation pathway.

Main duties of the job

Carry a clinical caseload,

Be a key part of the MDT

Case formulation and assessment and consultation

Support the teams ongoing development of psychological based interventions

Engage and be active  within  the Trusts Psychology network

Be a key member of the rehabilitation pathway with inpatient colleagues helping to develop effective rehabilitation pathway, clinical models and rehabilitation  approaches.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice

Carry out highly complex psychological assessments; drawing on the research literature, knowledge of both theoretical and therapeutic models and administration and interpretation of a comprehensive range of psychometric assessments, in order to formulate and plan interventions. This includes integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources which may include standard neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observation and interviews with clients, family members and others involved in client’s care.

To formulate client’s presenting difficulties based on sound theoretical and clinical evidence and knowledge and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment based on an appropriate conceptual framework and the up to date current evidence base practice, taking into account current clinical and best practice guidelines. To ensure the formulations are flexible, maintaining a number of provisional hypothesise and updating this as new information comes to light.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options using knowledge of both theoretical and therapeutic models, incorporating highly complex factors including historical, developmental, emotional, social, psychiatric and neurological processes that have contributed to the client’s presentation.

To work autonomously and hold professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment, evaluation and discharge of patients who you are providing specialised psychological therapy to.

To provide specialist psychological opinion, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both within and external to the team) involved in client care. This will involve liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary teams and other professionals, as appropriate.

To evaluate both the progress of on-going psychological treatment during the course of psychological input as well as the outcome of psychological interventions.

To adhere to professional guidelines and being responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the CRT.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.