Clinical Psychologist

Duties and

• Responsibilities
• Communication and Working Relationship
• Skills
• To communicate in a
• highly skilled and sensitive manner complex and sensitive information
• concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of people with
• learning disabilities under the services care.

To communicate in a highly

• skilled and sensitive manner to people with learning disabilities who may
• present with behaviour that challenges service delivery or who may have
• complex neurological deficits which affect their understanding, communication
• and behaviour
• Analytical and Judgemental Skills
• To undertake highly
• skilled assessments and make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about
• assessment, treatment and discharge, and about the psychological management
• of clients (including management of risk).
• Planning and Organisational Skills
• To plan, organise
• and prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of direct client care,
• support and guidance of carers and professionals, service research and
• developmental activities.

Responsibility

for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy

To provide

• Psychological Therapies to the community team for people with learning
• disabilities, developing specialist psychological formulations and
• assessments of people with learning disabilities, formulating plans for their
• psychological treatments and implementing specialist psychological
• interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.

To provide

• specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other
• professionals, paid and non-paid carers contributing directly to a service
• users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Responsibility for Policy and Service
• Development Implementation
• Policy
• & service:
• To follow policy guidance in own role and to identify and
• comment on proposed policy changes and service developments.

Responsibility for Finance, Equipment

and Other Resources

Careful use of

equipment and resources as provided

Responsibility

for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management

There is a requirement to support learners on a regular basis

which includes the achievement and updating of profession specific training

to the required standard to fulfil this role.

In common with all Clinical Psychologists, the

post holder will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in

accordance to Trust policy and Professional Practice Guidance set out by the

British Psychology Society and the Health Professions Council. The post

• holder will be supported by the senior psychologists within the speciality
• and will be expected to use the expertise of others within the service to
• further develop their clinical skills with this group of people who use
• services.

To supervise the

work of Assistant Psychologists and/or Trainee Clinical Psychologists as

required. To provide supervision and Consultancy to Health and Social Care

colleagues within the area ATT

Responsibility for Information

Resources and Administrative Duties

To maintain

accurate records

To be responsible

• for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail
• traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication.
• Responsibility for Research and
• Development
• To undertake
• service relevant research and development activity agreed with the Learning
• Disability Health and Social Care
• Partnership, and to organise the R&D activities of assistants and/or
• trainees as required

Freedom to Act

The post holder is accountable for their own

professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and

Professional Practice Guidelines.

To work autonomously within

clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the

governance of psychological practice within the Health and Social Care

Partnership for People with Learning Disabilities.

To provide expert and specialist

• clinical psychology intervention, expertise and advice guidance and
• consultation on psychological aspects of clinical care to colleagues, other
• service providers, clients, supporters and families.
• Any Other Specific Tasks Required
• To ensure that
• skills and techniques relevant to clinical work and demands of this post are
• continuously updated.