Principal Clinical​/Counselling​/Health Psychologist

Communication and working relationships Maintain effective communication in a highly skilled and sensitive manner and build effective working relationships with a range of health and social care staff across all levels, both within and outside of the organisation. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that any correspondence is of a high standard. Provide excellent, professional communication and patient care representing our service.

To liaise and work collaboratively with colleagues within the department. To be respectful and value the people you work with. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious condition specific information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients, where there may be barriers to acceptance and within highly emotive environments. To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers to ensure co-ordination of work across the wider Clinical Health Psychology service Analytical and Judgement To undertake highly skilled psychological assessments of individuals presenting with complex physical and psychological health conditions.

To develop and revise complex biopsychosocial formulations that integrate psychological, physical health, social, cultural and systemic factors. To analyse highly complex and potentially conflicting information and make clinical judgements where evidence may be incomplete or where service users present with multiple interacting difficulties. To make autonomous decisions regarding treatment options, drawing on a range of evidence-based psychological models and interventions.

To monitor and evaluate progress throughout assessment and intervention, adapting formulations and treatment plans in response to changing needs and outcomes. To undertake risk assessment and risk management, including assessment of psychological distress, self-harm, suicidality, safeguarding concerns and health-related behaviours, and to provide specialist advice to other professionals regarding risk formulation and management. To provide specialist psychological consultation to multidisciplinary teams and support reflective practice to enhance psychologically informed care.

Planning and organisation Under guidance from supervisor or line manager be able to plan and organise daily workload. Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills to meet an ever-changing workload. Be responsive to change and able to work in an environment which has constant interruptions. Help to plan and organise any teaching/training, seminars, workshops under the direction of service lead. Physical skills o Advanced keyboard and IT skills for the maintenance of electronic clinical records, outcome measures, reports and correspondence.

o Ability to use standardised psychological assessment tools and outcome measures accurately. o Ability to travel independently between clinical locations where required. o Ability to maintain concentration for prolonged periods during psychological assessment, formulation, therapy, supervision and report writing. Patient and client care To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for adults with complex physical health conditions and associated psychological difficulties.

To develop and implement individualised programmes of care based upon evidence-based psychological models and interventions. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment planning, intervention and discharge in accordance with professional and organisational policies. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to service users, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues. To work collaboratively with service users to promote self-management, adjustment to health conditions and behaviour change.

To contribute to psychologically informed pathways of care across Clinical Health Psychology services. Policy and service development Implement policies and propose changes to practices, procedures for own area To participate in developments within the services, the wider organisation and community to facilitate the appropriate provision of services. To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit All staff have a responsibility to ensure that the needs of the service are met in a timely and efficient manner.

Encourage and welcome feedback to ensure that we as individuals, and as a collective team, learn and continually improve. To contribute to the development of psychologically informed systems of care across physical health pathways. To contribute to service redesign, pathway development and quality improvement initiatives informed by service user feedback, evaluation and evidence-based practice. Finance, Equipment and Other Resources Everyone has a responsibility to ensure effective and conservative use of…