Clinical Neuropsychologist

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Clinical Psychologist to join our team at Iris Care Group. As a Clinical Psychologist, you will be responsible for delivering psychological input across our hospital, working alongside a comprehensive multidisciplinary team to provide effective, evidence-based care pathways.

Main Duties

• Deliver psychological assessments using a wide variety of methods, including psychometric assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client's care.
• Analyse, interpret, and integrate complex assessment information, often with contradictory data.
• Formulate plans for formal psychological therapy, based on provisional hypotheses derived from psychological theory and evidence-based practice.
• Implement a range of specialised psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups.
• Adjust and refine psychological formulations and therapy options based on continual re-assessment of clients during therapy, monitoring, and evaluating progress during the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care, to maximise the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
• Be available to multi-disciplinary team colleagues for the provision of psychological advice on clinical practice.
• Communicate effectively with the client, their family, and all others involved in the network of care, including professionals from other agencies.

Policy, Service Development, and Governance

• Contribute to the development of multi-disciplinary policies and procedures.
• Suggest changes to the team's working practices to improve service quality.
• Make suggestions to service management on aspects of the service related to the team, where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• Contribute to clinical governance, escalate patient safety concerns, and adhere to internal and external ethics and safeguarding processes as appropriate.

Management and Recruitment

• Exercise delegated responsibility for managing assistant psychologists, within the framework of the team's policies and procedures.
• Act as a panel member in the short-listing and interviewing of assistant psychologists within the team, and other staff, as appropriate.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision

• Receive clinical, professional, and managerial supervision and undertake appropriate Continuing Professional Development.
• Provide clinical supervision for designated assistant psychologists within the team and provide clinical supervision for multi-disciplinary staff within the team, as appropriate.
• Develop and provide pre- and post-graduate teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.
• Develop and provide basic training to other disciplines across a range of settings and agencies, where appropriate.

Research and Service Evaluation

• Plan and carry out audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service, to help develop service provision.
• Maintain specialised skills in the critical appraisal of relevant research literature, for the purposes of adhering to, and developing, evidence-based practice.
• Undertake appropriate research within the team.
• Provide research advice to other staff undertaking research within the team.

Financial and Physical Resources

• Exercise a personal duty of care in respect of Iris Care Group.

Information Resources

• Make appropriate notes of clinical sessions and accurately record and analyse observational data, psychological test results, and research findings.
• Use the computer as necessary for clinical work, including literature searches, word processing, developing and maintaining training packs, information leaflets, inputting data, emailing, report writing, and other tasks for the efficient running of the service.
• Maintain and promote the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, report writing, and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance.
• Provide the post-holder's line manager with an adequate data set of personal clinical activity and timesheet or other work record.

General

• Develop and maintain the highest standards of own professional practice.
• Contribute to the development of best practice in psychology by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national, and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
• Comply with all Iris Care Group policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the post-holder's line manager.

Requirements

We are particularly interested in hearing from people who are keen to develop their careers in clinical psychology, where additional support will be provided on the developmental pathway. There are opportunities to access specialist training in neuropsychology. You may already hold approved clinician status. Applicants without such status can be supported and encouraged to work towards portfolio submission to support an application to register as an approved clinician if that is an area of development interest.