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Clinical Associates in Psychology:

• are accountable professionals delivering psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and research within their scope of practice.
• use applied service research and evaluation to inform interventions.
• may work with and communicate with patients in their own home, in the community or hospital, or in any settings where their needs are supported and managed.
• may work with individuals and groups with complex and long-term needs.
• act as a psychological resource providing support, guidance and supervision using psychological models to the wider health or social care teams
• provide training to others to inform psychological interventions
• use psychological measurement tools to evaluate psychological treatments and improve the quality of clinical practice
• complement the work of Clinical Psychologists
• often deliver treatment interventions developed with a Clinical Psychologist who will review their practice through supervision.
• provide a range of psychological treatments working within their scope of practice, whilst the supervising Clinical Psychologist retains overall clinical responsibility for their work.
• undertake research
• report to a Clinical Psychologist in terms of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention

In their daily work, an employee in this occupation may interact with:

• a range of healthcare professionals in a variety of services
• nurses, social workers, allied health professionals (AHPs) and medical colleagues as part of a multidisciplinary team
• the psychology team, alongside assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists, while reporting to a Clinical Psychologist regarding psychological assessment, formulation and intervention

Clinical Associates in Psychology are responsible for:

• planning, delivering and evaluating psychological interventions which may include more long-term and complex presentations.
• working with individuals or groups with long-term and complex needs.
• acting as a psychological resource to the wider health or social care teams including residential settings.
• managing their own caseload while undertaking their own clinical programmes of work, within their scope of practice.
• seeing patients in their own homes or in the community.
• performing assessments as well as planning and evaluating their own psychological interventions.
• conducting risk management assessments and evaluations.
• their own learning and development using reflection and feedback to analyse their own capabilities.
• ensuring that resources are managed effectively.
• participating in the delivery of audit and service improvement projects.
• engaging in their own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to maintain and update their psychological scope of practice.
• meeting their clinical psychology supervisor on a weekly basis in accordance with British Psychological Society (BPS) standards for accredited practice.