Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Job Exeter area,England UK,Healthcare

Duties and Responsibilities

The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing ofpeople within the post holders specialist field of practice. To support the overall ward teams and their leadership to deliver high quality services in line with national professional guidance, NICE recommendations and other national policy documents, as part ofan overall acute care pathway.

This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:

Contributing a psychological perspective to the leadership, organisation and operation of Adult in-patient services

To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service in specialist field of practice in in-patient wards, as a key component of integrated mental health and wellbeing services across

Devon Partnership NHS Trust. This will include the provision of supervision to the MDT ward teams,psychological formulation of patients, and direct and indirect psychology and psychological therapy clinical input to the Adult In-patient Services.

Providing clinical leadership and supervision for less experienced staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology service.

Carrying a specialist caseload of clients,and providing adviceand consultancy to patient sand professionals.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within professional and Trust guidelines as lead specialist.

The post holder with receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policyand to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated Professional Body.

Observe, and abideby all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully registered with the Health Professions Council as a condition of employment

Duties and Responsibilities

Communication and Working Relationship Skills7

Clients, family and carers:
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating and whomay be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.
Multidisciplinary team colleagues:
To work closelywith colleagues in the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing services on a day to day basis
Health & social care staff:
To communicate with a widerange of health &social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner,complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plansof clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
Senior managers & professional staff:
To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers acrossthe Trust. To foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

To provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology expertise and advice.
Toprovide psychological therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers,families and groups. Proficiency in in both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable.
To support the Professional Head,General Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work withinthe team/s.
To provide complex assessment, including neuropsychological assessments, of specialist conditions

Planning and Organisational Skills

The psychology service:
To planand organise own work withinthe service setting and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within the commissioned integrated mental health and wellbeing service to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
The multidisciplinary service:
To provide psychology/therapy supervision to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health andwellbeing services

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy

Assessment & intervention:
Toprovide expert psychological therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
Consultation & guidance:
To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families
To ensure that psychological…


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Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist