Senior Clinical Psychology Assistant Practitioner

5 months ago


Pontefract, United Kingdom South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust Full time

JOB SUMMARY This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments. To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and / or research projects, teaching and project work. KEY RESULT AREAS: Clinical: 1. To be required to work on a frequent basis with people who have complex difficulties often associated with personality disorder, mental health difficulties and learning disability. 2.

To work in a highly emotive atmosphere with service users that can be hostile and engage in risky behaviours. 3. To be able to work with highly sensitive, complex, and contentious information. 4.

To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups or clinical projects. 7. To work with other staff to assess community patients and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews. 8.

To assist in the development of a psychological based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place. 6. Where required to attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and CPA meetings. 7.

To respect diversity. To treat everyone with dignity and respect and act in ways that acknowledge and recognise peoples expressed beliefs, preferences and choices. IT responsibilities (clinical) 1. To use highly developed IT skills.

2. To access knowledge through Internet searches (e.g. Psych.Lit, Medline) to keep up to date with clinical and professional development 3. For the preparation and presentation of materials of effective teaching and training (e.g.

power point, graphic representations) to record and analyse data for research and audit (e.g. databases, spreadsheets, statistical analysis packages e.g. SPPS). 4.

To create graphs or charts to collate or summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes. 5. To assist in producing visual or material or user-friendly information for interventions with clients. Teaching, training and supervision 1.

To receive regular clinical supervision from a HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist in accordance with professional practice guidelines. 2. To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed. 3.

To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties. 4. To contribute to the training and support of other staff, working within the Service in psychological care. Management, recruitment and service development 1.

To assist in the referral and assessment process in the team by collating relevant information in the form of reviews to include key information on risk, previous interventions, and diagnoses and support clinical decision making. 2. To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects with the service as required. 3.

To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed. Research and service evaluation 1. To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects. 2.

To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes. 3. To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists in evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. Trust Values: The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time.

The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values: Honest, open, transparent Respectful Person first and in the centre Improve and be outstanding Relevant today, ready for tomorrow Families and carers matter For full job description, please see the attachedin supporting information.



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