Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to Acute Services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To work within the MDT, forming part of the leadership team for the ward and ensuring psychologically informed ways of working are embedding across all systems along with skilling up the wider workforce to make psychologically informed interventions everybody's business. To support with and lead the embedding of Trauma Informed Approaches across all systems.