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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 customer service when representing our service.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues within the department and support team cohesion. To support a culture of respectful and compassion.
• To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to patients, carers, and staff.
• To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across the Trust and within CHP to ensure co-ordination of work in the Clinical Health Psychology service.

Planning and organisation

• Initiate, plan and organise a workload of a complex range of activities.
• Formulate and adjust plans for service delivery in the short term and long term.
• In line with service and Trust plans, continually formulate appropriate service strategy with the Head of Service.
• 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.
• Be adaptable to the needs of the Head of Service and deputise as required, such as during absence.

Analytical and judgement

• 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 highly skilled clinical consultation to other health and social care staff and foster reflective practice in teams. Consultation may be at a policy and individual client level.
• To identify to the Head of Service gaps, need, staff needs and areas for development across Clinical Health Psychology.

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) Standards of Conduct and the DCP Generic Professional Practice Guidelines (2008).
• To reflect and learn from mistakes.
• Be responsible for your dedicated workload.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
• To exercise professional responsibility for other psychologists/therapists.
• Ensure that all work is of a high standard and meets regulatory compliance.
• 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 initiate, lead and oversee developments within the services, the wider organisation and community to facilitate the appropriate provision of services.
• To initiate, plan, organise and deliver regular service evaluation, research, and audit.
• 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.

 Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management

• To line manage and/or supervise the work of service leads and other senior 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 and line management from an experienced Clinical Psychologist.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate training programmes offered by Clinical Health Psychology.
• Work flexibly to ensure the department collectively achieves its goals.
• Provide compassionate leadership, responding sensitively to the needs of internal and external staff and their wellbeing.

 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 initiate, plan and organise service evaluation, research, and audit across the service.