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Location
Wakefield, West Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Key Responsibilities Clinical Work To provide a lead role in the psychological management of patients with spinal injuries and contribute positively to the development of the service. The postholder will manage their own caseload and will lead development of the service related to the psychological care of spinal injuries patients and promote multi-agency support for patients and families outside the Trust. To be responsible for providing highly developed and specialist psychological assessment and formulation, integrating and interpreting highly complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observation and semi structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care. To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals with spinal injuries, as well as interventions for carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options, responsible for working with highly complex presentations, 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. To identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviour. To manage situations where there may be a conflict of opinion over decisions made in the patients best interests, taking the psychological impact on the patient into account. To carry individual accountability for all clinical decisions and exercise responsibility and autonomy for the treatment and discharge of patients, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and treatment, communicating with the referral agent, members of the multidisciplinary team and others involved with the patients care. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals within the spinal injuries service, contributing directly to the service users (and their family) formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. To consult with and provide highly specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of the patient and also with other Allied Health Professionals who are directly involved with the care of individuals. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to spinal injuries To provide input to other services within the department as require. Teaching-Training-Supervision-Consultation To ensure, facilitate and co-ordinate the efficient use of supervisory and training resources for the development of psychological practitioners within the specialist service. To provide clinical training placements for Trainee Clinical Psychologists from appropriate courses, undertaking clinical supervision, teaching on placement, organising and monitoring workload and assessing clinical competence. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. To continue to develop psychological expertise through Continuing Professional Development. Policy and Service Development To exercise responsibility for the systematic development of psychological practice within spinal injuries. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisational matters need addressing. To be responsible for promoting and implementing agreed developments in spinal injuries psychology service provision. To be responsible for ensuring that the policies and procedures of the Trust, profession and the service are properly implemented by the psychological practitioners within Spinal injuries Professional Leadership and Management To provide professional leadership, management, clinical consultancy, personal support and practice guidance to the other psychological practitioners working in the Spinal Injuries Service. To lead in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible clinical psychology service for patients, carers and families within the spinal injuries service, including advising management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To be responsible for line-management of qualified psychologists and psychology support staff (e.g. assistants) within the Clinical Psychology Service, ensuring good practice and professional development by undertaking regular performance appraisals, ensuring professionals development and monitoring and adjusting workload To take responsibility and exercise autonomous judgement with regard to own professional practice. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the Clinical psychology spinal injury service, including maintaining records of appraisals, as well as high quality, systematic clinical record keeping. To liaise with departments in relevant services, including social services and voluntary services to ensure continuity of patient care. To be responsible for the completion of relevant service-level documentation such as service specifications and annual reports (under the guidance of the head of service). To provide line management to colleagues within the Spinal Injuries Psychology Evaluation-Research-Development To take a leading role in the evaluation of the Clinical psychology service in spinal injuries by initiating, designing, implementing and overseeing service related audit, research and evaluation projects ensuring the incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care. To remain informed of and critically evaluate current research to support evidence-based practice in own professional work and to contribute this perspective in the multi-disciplinary team. To undertake appropriate research and audit and provide research advice to other staff as requested
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£58.97k - £68.53k per annum
