Senior Clinical Psychologist - Llanelli

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • To provide specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to BIRT and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with People We Support, family members and others involved in the service users care. • To complete pre-admission assessments, highly developing specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individuals rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals. • To coordinate People We Support in care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/clinical lead. • To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required. • To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurobehavioural rehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice. • To elicit personal goals from service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team. • To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family, group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention. • To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families. You will highly contribute specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff. • To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team. • To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users. • To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on own caseload. • To participate in regular on call support for the Unit on a rota basis. • To demonstrate a duty of care to equipment and resources supplied by Brainkind. Job description Job responsibilities MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • To provide specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to BIRT and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with People We Support, family members and others involved in the service users care. • To complete pre-admission assessments, highly developing specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individuals rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals. • To coordinate People We Support in care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/clinical lead. • To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required. • To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurobehavioural rehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice. • To elicit personal goals from service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team. • To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family, group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention. • To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families. You will highly contribute specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff. • To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team. • To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users. • To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on own caseload. • To participate in regular on call support for the Unit on a rota basis. • To demonstrate a duty of care to equipment and resources supplied by Brainkind.