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Location
Billericay, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
We offer aCPD package of up to £6,000to be used in the first three years of employment following successful completion of the probationary period and linked to the appraisal process as agreed with your line manager. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service through the provisional advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competences and experience contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competences. To provide post qualification training and clinical professional supervision to other qualified applied psychologists attached to the Learning Disability Service and other Psychology services in EPUT, where appropriate. To provide the advice consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the MDT for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning where appropriate. To organise, co-ordinate and provide agreed post qualification teaching where appropriate. To continue to develop skills in the area of professional pre and post graduate training under clinical supervision To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. In common with all Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, to receive regular clinical professional supervision from an appropriately experienced/more senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. Develop, initiate and analyse audits and surveys relevant to the service. To establish and maintain good relationships with service users, carers, voluntary sector colleagues and external statutory and non-statutory agencies To assist the Associate Clinical Director for psychological services (with responsibility for specialist services), in ensuring the provision of an evidence-based service to service users which complies with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant quality, governance and local and national guidelines. Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of detailed responsibilities.
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Salary
£58.97k - £68.53k per annum
