Service Based Consultant Psychologist

About the role: Provide focused support to deliver against the role primary functions as listed above these will lead all delivery and activity and should be considered the primary role specific responsibilities ahead of all others noted. Provide professional leadership for all psychological professionals within your service, such that the best professional standards are deployed As part of the national Psychology Team and local service team, provide clinical leadership, and support your own services development to deliver psychology, psychosocial therapy and talking therapies within your service and organisational pathways Promote integrated health/care professional working Multidisciplinary Team approach Provide psychological advice, consultation, and supervision to non-psychologist colleagues where psychological and psychosocial interventions form a key aspect of treatment programmes Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic
governance of psychological practice Ensure clinical practice is maintained according to registration requirements, including clinical supervision and CPD To participate within relevant local meetings representing the profession of psychology contributing psychological knowledge and expertise Support the recruitment of psychology staff, ensuring that required standards of governance, qualification, practice, and registration as determined by the HCPC and other relevant professional bodies are met Provide highly developed specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment, formulation, intervention, offering expert opinion with due regard to issues of cultural, racial, religious difference and sexual orientation Lead provision to ensure that interventions provided are trauma informed, evidence based/evidence-informed and delivered in accordance with NICE guidelines and best practice Ensure the highest standard of clinical record keeping by all psychological staff, including electronic
data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with the professional guidance and charity policies and procedures, and utilising organisational case management systems