Clinical Psychologist

at  Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Main duties continued: The post-holder will also provide advice and consultation regarding service users psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to others involved in the persons care. They will be working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the scope of the services policies and procedures.The post provides opportunities to utilise and develop skills in clinical audit; policy and service development; and clinical research within the areas served by the team/service.The post holder will be required to work in clinic and community settings including service users own homes (where appropriate and clinically indicated).Detailed main responsibilities: 1. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, within the areas of agreed responsibility, for adults whose presentations are suggestive of a possible autistic spectrum condition, as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment process.2. To offer supervision and advice to other clinical staff within the Adult Autism Assessment Service.3.
Assessments will involve the interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews, and guided clinical inquiry methods with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care. 4. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility, within professional guidelines, for the assessment, therapeutic treatment and discharge of adults and their families/carers. 5.
The post-holder will exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within their work. 6. The post-holder will be responsible for adhering to relevant Trust policies and standards and will be accountable for professional and clinical actions.7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to less experienced psychologists and other professions, on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.8.
To support other staff with risk assessment and risk management as a senior clinician within the Adult Autism Assessment Service. 9. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have impacted on the individuals current presentation.10. To manage and prioritise own caseload in relation to service users whose problems are within the remit of the service and to keep the service manager informed of case-load, waiting times and other issues that affect the service.11.
Through supervision to support other clinicians with caseload management, prioritisation.12. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during the course of their treatment within the service.13. To communicate highly complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner in situations with service users who may be extremely hostile or highly emotional requiring the highest level of communication skills.14. To be involved in referral screening processes, duty calls, MDT service meetings and other service functions as required.*Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the further full details on this role.

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