Senior Clinical Psychologist

at  Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Scope and Authority To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways. To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues. To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate.
To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit, and to advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service. Key knowledge and skills: Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in the specific client group served by the team/service. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust. Main responsibilities: To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake complex specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children young people, families and carer’s accessing the service, including comprehensive risk assessment/management and care planning.
Provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the service. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service area. To be responsible for contributing psychological knowledge and expertise to service development through participation, where practical, in regional multidisciplinary meetings and special interest groups, working parties etc that may impact on the functioning of the whole care group

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