Job Title | Senior Community Psychologist |
Location | Sussex |
Job Type | Permanent |
Speciality | Community Psychologist |
Rates | £56,164 - £65,262 per annum |
Description
We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and innovative Senior Community Psychologist to provide strong clinical leadership to our psychologists.
The duties and responsibilities of this role include:
- To provide specialist psychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to the regional community related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources:
- To formulate cases at preadmission assessments, inpatient treatment and follow up care including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self report scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of client’s neuropsychological and mental health problems based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice.
- 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.
- To monitor the effectiveness of interventions and report back to the team.
- To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of clients on own case load.
- To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-disciplinary assessment of service users and their families
- To contribute highly specialist psychological advice to the multi-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.
For more information, contact Rahul Macwan on +44(0) 203 411 5531 or email on rahul@permanenthire.co.uk