Clinical / Counselling Health Psychologist, Community Services

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and therapy of people with physical health conditions using highly complex psychological data gained from a wide variety of sources. This will include inpatient and outpatient referrals to the clinical health psychology service at George Eliot Hospital. To ensure the systematic provision of psychological service, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately. To use psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To follow up and to re-assess clients when considered appropriate, using approved statistical methods in order to make valid comparisons. To communicate both orally, and in written reports, the content of these investigations and resulting formulations in order to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues. To formulate and make decisions about 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 and the nature and levels of social care available. To be responsible for devising and implementing plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems based upon appropriate conceptual framework of their problems and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals contributing directly to patients formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of clients. This to include provision of advice and support to facilitate the effective use of psychological treatment by other members of staff where appropriate. To ensure that members of staff within George Eliot Hospital have access to psychologically based framework for understanding through the provision of advice, supervision, consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This will include attendance at MDTs and service development meetings as appropriate. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

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