Principal Clinical / Counselling / Health Psychologist

• To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical culture and developmental and physical health processes that have shaped the individual or system. • To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals and agencies outside the Trust when necessary, contributing directly to the patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. • To ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team to have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding the issues for the patients under our care, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This may include the provision of clinical supervision and reflective practice as appropriate. • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide general advice to other professional on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. • To provide clinical supervision to qualified psychologist, trainee clinical/counselling psychologists on placement, assistant psychologists, volunteers and other colleagues, including doctoral and PhD research supervision as required. For further details of the role please see the attached job description. Job description Job responsibilities • To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical culture and developmental and physical health processes that have shaped the individual or system. • To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals and agencies outside the Trust when necessary, contributing directly to the patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. • To ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team to have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding the issues for the patients under our care, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This may include the provision of clinical supervision and reflective practice as appropriate. • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide general advice to other professional on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. • To provide clinical supervision to qualified psychologist, trainee clinical/counselling psychologists on placement, assistant psychologists, volunteers and other colleagues, including doctoral and PhD research supervision as required. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.