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Location
Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk | United Kingdom
Job description
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities To deliver NICE recommended psychological therapies informed by individual need and which utilise the appropriate range of cognitive behavioural theoretical and therapeutic models. To continually monitor and evaluate the psychological interventions provided, employing service specific outcome measures as required, reformulating and adjusting hypotheses and interventions as new information becomes available and liaising effectively with other professionals involved. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within NCEDS. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to patients / clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients /clients under their care To provide specialist professional contributions to relevant multi-agency clinical meetings. To undertake risk assessment and risk management when working directly with clients and to provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, relating to the client and to others. To produce reports on patients/ clients, in a timely manner, that conveys the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To ensure that these reports are put in all appropriate medical notes both in the base and network To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients within the service and, where appropriate, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. Working closely with acute colleagues adhering to MEED guidance and working closely with our third sector partners, Eating Matters.
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Salary
£43.74k - £50.06k per annum
