Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Purpose:

·         To provide a highly specialist psychology service to children and families at the BAU including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

·         To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

·         To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in psychological assessment and treatment including particular therapeutic models such as CBT and behavioural interventions.

·         To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1       Clinical and Client Care

·         To provide highly specialist psychological assessments (including neuropsychological assessments), formulations and interventions for young people in the BAU including psychosis, eating disorders, personality disorders, learning disabilities, neurodevelopmental disorders etc., at levels expected of a psychologist who has achieved the equivalent of a post graduate diploma-worth of post-qualification specialist development.

·         To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.

·         To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

KR 2       Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

·         To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

·         To contribute to the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

·         To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

·         To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.

KR 3       Policy and service development

·         To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

·         To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4       Care or management of resources

·         To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.

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KR 5       Management and supervision

·         To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists with support from a more senior psychologist.

·         To supervise trainee applied psychologists within own area of specialism.

KR 6       Teaching and Training

·         To undertake occasional teaching and training of pre and post- qualification psychologists and specialised training to other professions as appropriate.

·         To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the BAU and the wider inpatient CAMHS service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.

KR 7       Record-keeping and Information Governance

·         To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

·         To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 8       Research and development

·         To initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits.

·         To initiate and carry out appropriate research

·         To provide expertise in a specialist research area which will contribute to inpatient CAMHS.

KR 9       Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

·         To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines.

·         To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC ‘Standards for Continuing Professional Development’.

KR10      General

·         To travel to home visits, community placements, psychology meetings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

·         To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.