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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

1.    Delivery of service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multi-agency context.

2.    To provide specialist assessments of the parent and infant relationship of parents and infants referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect observation and interviews with family members and/or carers, and infants.

3.    To formulate and implement plans for therapeutic intervention or management based on an appropriate conceptual framework, working in home, social services, community, hospital and educational settings where appropriate.

4.    To provide psychological training, advice and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and to clinical psychology service provision with a particular focus on the perinatal period.

5.    To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.

6.    To contribute a specialist psychological perspective to case planning and multi-agency case conferences and reviews and call multi-professional meetings when appropriate.

7.    To communicate highly complex condition-related or contentious or sensitive information where there may be significant barriers to acceptance and to manage ensuing difficult interpersonal situations in the interests of the patient’s welfare.

Management and service development

1.    To assist in developing existing Infant Parent Services as required.

2.    To assist in determining priorities for the psychology sector of the TIPS and CAMHS service.

3.    To help plan, contribute and participate in, any team building process that may be seen as necessary to enhance the working efficiency of TIPS.

4.    To join senior clinicians to manage the workloads of assistant psychologists working within the department.

5.    To be involved in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists.

6.    To attend departmental and specialist team meetings.

Teaching, Training and Supervision

1.    To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and other professional colleagues, where appropriate.

2.    To take responsibility for continuing professional development and continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of TIPS, child and adolescent clinical psychology and CAMHS service-related areas.

3.    To develop skills in professional post graduate teaching and training, and deliver teaching and training to professional and non-professional groups on subjects related to the mental health needs of infants, children and their families across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate.

4.    To provide case based supervision to the work of non-psychologists in delivery of psychological interventions as appropriate.

5.    To provide consultation/clinical supervision as appropriate to others in TIPS, including assistant psychologists.

6.    To contribute to the supervising of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists and when appropriately experienced to take full responsibility for organising a trainee placement and providing full supervision.

7.    To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with parents and infants across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate with a particular focus on the perinatal period and parent infant relationships..

8.    To take part in annual appraisal.

Clinical Governance and Research

1.    To utilise evidence-based literature and research to support effective practice.

2.    To undertake project management including audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

3.    To participate in evaluation of all clinical activity within the post and provide such information as required by the Head of Psychology for the purpose of service monitoring and evaluation.

4.    To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice as appropriate.

5.    To publish research outcomes in professional recognised journals and share information on outcomes at professional conferences where appropriate.

6.    To represent a professional view point in relation to nationally accepted good practice and to ensure a high level of ethical standards and professional conduct.