HUMBER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

BAND 7

REPORTS TO Clinical Team Leader

OPERATIONALLY
RESPONSIBLE TO Clinical Team Leader

PROFESSIONALLY
RESPONSIBLE TO Senior Psychologist

LOCATION Various – Team base East Riding Community

Hospital

JOB PURPOSE

 To be accountable in own area of responsibility to provide

psychological assessment and formulation in the speciality of child and
adolescent neurodevelopment.
 To continue to demonstrate specialist psychological skills in practice
and provide support and advice re service development/development
 To work as part of a specialist multidisciplinary team delivering autism
assessments
 To contribute to appropriate training, teaching and supervision of other
staff including assistant Psychologists.
 Be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered
and appropriately collated
 A job plan will provide further detail on specific assessment i.e.
autism/ADHD assessment

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Communication/Relationship Skills KSF Dimension

(highest level of interpersonal skills)
 To communicate highly complex condition related Communication
information to patients and their families who may be
manipulative, hostile, highly anxious or distressed
 To communicate psychological formulations and make
appropriate recommendations
 To lead and present highly complex, sensitive and
challenging clinical and professional communication
processes that may impact on service users, carers, staff,
the team, the organisation, partner agencies and
 members of the public, where there may be barriers to
understanding
 To communicate highly complex information to users and
carers regarding personal, psycho-social problems in an
empathic and supportive way. This will involve using a
range of highly developed inter-personal skills in situations
that can be highly emotional, and or antagonistic and
require a satisfactory outcome, e.g. impact of
assessments/interventions
 Professional networking locally and nationally and
disseminate/share information with other colleagues
 Chairs/facilitates complex case reviews/meetings which
may involve other agencies or specified
organisational/professional forums
 To ensure effective communication at all levels: strategic,
national, local, unit and partner organisations

Personal, Professional Development KSF Dimension

 To maintain, as part of continual professional Personal and People

development, up to date clinical specialist Development
knowledge/skills in this clinical field, using information to
effect change in practice and ensuring the effective
dissemination of new knowledge
 Work closely with and provide specialist advice and
consultation to all other professionals within the speciality.
 To ensure up to date knowledge of relevant national and
local policies/drivers to enable the post holder to review
service need and contribute to service/workforce re-
design.
 Maintain specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of
a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices
relevant to the clinical area (neurodevelopment/autism)

Analysis, Problem Solving and Service Planning KSF dimension

(complex judgements with a range of options)
 Regularly demonstrate advanced skills in assessing the Health and
needs of patients and their carers, based on the analysis Well-being
of complex facts and situations. Interventions will be
planned on the assessment and interpretation of this
information
 Obtains, analyses and interprets assessment information,
presenting symptoms and physical health to develop the
appropriate intervention plan
 Demonstrates critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning
 skills in clinical decision making
 Uses sound judgement in assessing conflicting priorities
and needs

Planning and Organisational Skills KSF dimension

(of a number of tasks and activities)
 Plans own patient workload, implements diagnostic Health and
assessments and therapeutic interventions to help Well-being
patients with unstable and complex health care problems
regain stability and restore health, in partnership with the
patient, their family and multi-professional health care
teams/agencies and other organisations

Physical Skills KSF dimension

 Maintain up to date training and knowledge of violence

and aggression
 Up to date competency in the use of psychometric test
equipment

Patient Care (develops advanced programmes of care KSF dimension

within service area)
 Provides a range of specialist psychological advice, Health and
assessment and formulation Well-being
 Develops and maintains the patients and their family’s Quality
control over decision making, assess the patients Equality and Diversity
commitment to the specialist assessment including
gaining consent from the young person
 May be responsible for ensuring assistant psychologists
within the team/service contribute to effective service
delivery
 To promote positive patient experience
 To actively support the service and the wider organisation
to develop and champion participation and the
engagement of young people and parents/carers at all
levels.
 To actively support young people and parents/carers to
get involved with participation.
 To value and make meaningful use of feedback from
young people and families who use our service.

Policy and Service Development Implementation KSF dimension

(implements policies for own work area and proposes
changes for own work area)
 To implement of policy for own work area, informing senior Service Improvement
staff of any barriers to implementation Quality
 To contribute to service/practice development and
implementation and change e.g. Clinical Governance,
business planning, psychological strategy
 To contribute the psychological perspective in reviewing, ,
developing and monitoring operational/clinical policy
which impacts beyond own area of responsibility
 Evaluates patients responses to the health care provided
and the effectiveness of the care

Responsible for Financial and Physical Resources KSF dimension

(personal duty of care)
 Ensure clinical managers are informed of the need for
relevant test equipment and any equipment required for
therapeutic interventions
 Appropriate safe use, care and storage of
equipment/physical resources

Responsible for Human Resources KSF dimension

(Day to day co-ordination/supervision of staff)
 Where appropriate providing supervision of assistant Personal & People
clinical psychologists most specifically on the use of Development
cognitive assessments. G1 Learning &
Development
G6 People
Management

Responsible for Information Resources KSF dimension

(personally generated information)
 To provide accurate and timely information to inform IK1 Information and
Trust/National databases as required Knowledge
 To be responsible for the safe storage and movement of
test results
 Maintain up to date training and basic IT skills, and
demonstrate a good working knowledge of confidentiality
and data protection

Research and Development KSF dimension

(regularly undertakes R&D activity)
 Responsible for initiating and collaborating in specific Quality
research and development projects and providing
research advice to other staff undertaking research
 Responsible for maintaining the scientist-practitioner
perspective by utilising theory, evidence based practice in
individual clinical work and within the service as a whole
 Responsible for the promotion and organisation of
 research and development activities of assistant clinical
psychologists

Freedom to Act KSF dimension

(broad occupational policies)
 To work within professional code of conduct,
organisational policy and guidance
 To provide specialist advice and high level of clinical
competency in order to inform and enable other
professionals to take clinical actions based on the
analysis of the specific challenges/risk situation e.g.
clinical risk management

STANDARD PARAGRAPHS
To be read in line with relevant Trust Policy

It is the responsibility of each member of staff to maintain confidentiality, in

line with the Trust’s Confidentiality Code of Conduct.

Staff must be aware of and adhere to the provisions of current Health and
Safety legislation and to ensure their own safety and the safety of colleagues,
patients and visitors. Staff must also be aware of the action to be taken in the
event of fire and must undertake fire training annually.

In addition to the Trust’s own responsibilities under the Health Act Code of
Practice for the Prevention of HCAI 2006 for your safety, staff have a personal
responsibility to ensure that their work adheres to this Code in the delivery of
safe patient care within the organisation. This code relates to ALL Trust staff
and contractors working within the organisation who are employed to ensure
this level of care is provided.

As an employee you will be trained to ensure adherence and compliance to

the various Infection Control policies within the Trust

Staff are required to receive supervision and an annual Personal

Development Review during which their mandatory, role specific and personal
development needs should be identified and agreed.

Staff should be aware of their individual responsibilities under the Trust’s

Equal Opportunities Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of
the policy

Equality and Diversity: staff should recognise, respect and support the
diversity of all staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. All staff
are expected to contribute to a working environment which promotes and
responds positively to difference and diversity

Staff should ensure that they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote
the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued
under section 11 of the Children Act 2004. The guidelines, policy and
procedures of the Trust and Hull and East Riding Safeguarding Children
Boards must be adhered to.

Staff must be aware of their individual professional responsibilities to develop

their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e.
CPD, Audit, Supervision)

Staff should demonstrate through practice and practical understanding, the

importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide
quality improvement

Staff should abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the

organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached.

Staff will be required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the

service/organisation, whilst working within the culture of improving working
lives and working time directive

All employees with managerial responsibilities:

 Have a statutory duty to ensure that their staff undertake all relevant
safety training in accordance with the Trust Mandatory Training Policy
including fire safety.
 Responsible for the identification and management of
clinical/organisational risks within their area of responsibility through
their involvement with a comprehensive risk assessment, action
planning and monitoring process.
 Responsible for appropriate key performance indicators