Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communication and working relationships

·         Maintain effective communication in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, and build effective working relationships with a range of health and social care staff across all levels, both within and outside of the organisation

·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that any correspondence is of a high standard

·        Provide excellent, professional communication and care when representing our service

·       To liaise and work collaboratively with colleagues within the department. To be respectful and value the people you work with

·       To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious condition specific information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients, where there may be barriers to acceptance and within highly emotive environments

·       To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers to ensure co-ordination of work in the Clinical Health Psychology service

 Planning and organisation

·        Under guidance from supervisor or line manager be able to plan and organise daily workload

·        Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills to meet an ever-changing workload

·         Be responsive to change and able to work in an environment which has constant interruptions

·         Help to plan and organise any teaching/training, seminars, workshops under the direction of service lead

 Analytical and judgement

·        To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care

·       To make skilled and complex assessments, formulations and decisions about treatment options considering a range of options which draw on both theoretical and therapeutic models

·       To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management

·       To provide clinical consultation to other health and social care staff and foster reflective practice in teams

 Responsibility and Accountability

·        Act with integrity and professionalism, ensuring that you are demonstrating responsible behaviours at all times, in accordance with our Trust values

·        To be accountable for own professional actions and to fully observe the BPS (2009) Code of Conduct/BABCP guidelines and the DCP Generic Professional Practice Guidelines (2008). To reflect and learn from our mistakes

·        Be responsible for your dedicated workload

·        To make highly skilled assessments and decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models

·       To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s health problem, employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Psychological interventions may be for individuals, carers, families and groups

·       To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management

·       To provide psychological consultation to staff working with this client group within health, education and social services, both at a policy and individual client level

·      To  exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients

·       To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan

·       Ensure that all work is of a high standard and meets regulatory compliance

·       To provide clinical consultation to other health and social care staff

·       To observe the requirements of government legislation, local and national policies and associated initiatives

 Responsibility for Patients and Client Care

·        To make highly skilled assessments, formulations and decisions about treatment options and individualised programs of care considering both theoretical and therapeutic models

·        To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management

 Policy and service responsibility

·       To participate in developments within the services, the wider organisation and community to facilitate the appropriate provision of services

·       To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit

·         All staff have a responsibility to ensure that the needs of the service are met in a timely and efficient manner

·       Encourage and welcome feedback to ensure that we as individuals, and as a collective team, learn and continually improve

Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources

·        Everyone has a responsibility to ensure effective and conservative use of resources

·        Maintain paperless filing wherever possible (excluding where any statutory duty may exist). Do not print/ photocopy unless necessary

·        Ensure conservative use of stationery, not using equipment to excess

·        Ensure that any stationery or resource needs are reported to the appropriate person for future orders

 Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management

·        To assist in assessing and evaluating trainees’ skills and competences

·        Where applicable and qualified to do so to supervise the work of less experienced members of the Clinical Health Psychology team

·        To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychological care

·        To receive supervision from an experienced Clinician in the Clinical Health Psychology Team

·        To provide teaching to the local Clinical Psychology/ IAPT training courses as appropriate

·        Work flexibly to ensure the department collectively achieves its goals

·        Work with colleagues, seeking or offering support as required

·        To develop leadership skills through the organisation training

 Information Technology and administrative duties

·       To ensure information governance is adhered to in all aspects of your work

·     To  ensure you are adhering to GDPR regulations/Data Protection Act 2018

·      To be proficient in use of trust IT systems

·       To keep up to date with patient related admin (e.g. patient records and letters) and be able to co-ordinate and communicate well with the admin team

 Responsibility for Research and Development

·         To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit