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Location
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
To provide clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological therapists working across learning disability services to ensure the provision of a high quality therapy and PBS service to people with learning disabilities and complex health needs. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of psychological and therapeutic practice across learning disability services. To provide professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs across the learning disability services. To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of psychologists and therapists working with people with learning disabilities, including those within mainstream adult mental health services. To take lead for workforce planning in and related recruitment and staff professional development activities within but not limited to Learning disability services. To provide consultation around working with people with learning disabilities across services. To contribute significantly to the development of services and future business proposals through the senior leadership team, liaison with CCG, liaison with social care. Contributing to services at a national level e.g. through Benchmarking projects and at local level through Learning disability and Autism development groups/service user groups. Responsible for the highly specialist psychological assessment and care-planning of clients with learning disabilities and highly complex health needs based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources. Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk. Undertakes complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks inherent in the client group. Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of care plans with clients and/or their carers, Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients with complex comorbid physical and mental health difficulties, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required. Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and assessments, formulates care plans and makes decisions about treatment options including supporting other clinical staff to create appropriate therapy care plans and decision making where referral on is appropriate, including liaising with other services to ensure timely handover. Provides highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan. Leads decision-making by planning and mapping processes/interventions with members of the team to determine the most appropriate treatment modality or service for clients including allocation of casework to therapists and care planning via clinical supervision of staff. Meet frequently with service managers to ensure an effective and client-centred pathway for service users to receive intervention from the appropriate level of staff To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of the client group to staff within and outside of the Trust as required. Communicates in a way which recognises difference and ensures that people feel included and their individual communication needs are met. Communicates highly complex, highly sensitive and contentious information to clients who may have complex communication needs during the course of psychological therapy where the atmosphere may be highly emotive, there may be barriers to understanding or the client may react in an antagonistic or hostile manner. Shares information relating to psychological assessment and formulation with clients, carers and families in a responsive, empathic manner, taking into consideration the possible complexities of the familys circumstances and the highly sensitive nature of the information. Communicates effectively with all professionals involved in the clients care including all members of the multidisciplinary team, general practitioners, Social Services, education providers, voluntary agencies, user/carer groups etc., to maximise the quality of service delivered to clients and their families and carers. Analyses highly complex client information, derived from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with the client, family members and others involved in the clients care. Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. Assesses, diagnoses and makes clinical judgements involving a range of highly complex factors in the context of inadequate or unavailable information, equivocal research/evidence or where expert opinion differs (e.g. conflict between medical and psychological models). The post holder may be required to work in locations other than those specified in the job description as required by service need.
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Salary
£70.42k - £81.14k per annum
