Clinical Psychologist

Roles and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities of the role Corresponding Key Activities performed by the role

Managerial

Ensuring and participating in providing coverage to the various service areas or populations and settings

Collaborating with senior clinical psychologists in the provision of consultative services internally and externally

Technical

Providing highly specialist one-to-one clinical psychological consultations within areas of specialization

Providing Psychological interventions for individuals, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses

Coordinating the assessment and formulation of risk management plans for clients within their case load and contribute to the formulation of risk management plans for other clients within the service

Participating in decision making for and evaluating treatment options, 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

Promoting high quality psychological services to patients and carers, via direct clinical work and indirectly by collaboration with other team members

Providing psychological services (as an autonomous/independent practitioner) to service-users, carers and team colleagues

Providing advice to multi-disciplinary teams on the psychological aspects of the needs assessment and care planning process

Developing psychosocial formulations for those service-users with the most highly complex problems so as to inform and guide intervention strategies

Exercising professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and or referral of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based intervention plans

Providing casework for people experiencing severe psychological difficulties. To prioritize workload to ensure that skills are used to address the more severe and complex psychological presentations within this area of work

Desired candidate profile

Quality & Safety

Promoting and maintaining quality in all services and ensure continuous quality improvement measures are in place. Conduct method evaluation/development as per standard policies and procedures

Complying with all safety, health and quality control programs and procedures as applicable

Complying with applicable precautions for environmental safety, infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection

Maintaining the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded

Practicing within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures

Ensuring that SOP (standard operation procedures) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections

Being responsible for documenting all intervention in appropriate format

Comply and support clinical audit processes within the service and report on these as agreed.

Communicating in a professional and courteous manner with patients, family and other medical personnel as necessary to obtain information for laboratory records, explain procedures, clarify orders and communicate status

Interacting courteously with doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers when answering questions or providing other information

Education

Participating in training and education sessions for department staff, doctors and nurses.

Participating in department programs/committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings

Participating in the orientation and training of new employees

Ensuring appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures

Maintaining professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or on-line education units