Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, personality and risk assessment, self

• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health and eating issues challenges, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a specialist psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of specialist psychological research and theory.
• To undertake risk assessment and guide risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
• To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
• To provide a consultancy service to the Children's Social Care, acute paediatric wards, in-patient teams, local community mental health teams, and other agencies and teams, with regard to appropriate referral and treatment options.
• To liaise with appropriate professionals, and to contribute to multi-disciplinary case discussions/planning meetings.
• To be responsible for own work and interventions with highly complex presentations as an autonomous practitioner, and to seek consultation appropriately from supervisor and colleagues.
• To provide a direct specialist service for service users presenting with eating disorders and/or eating issues, and their families.
• To write reports summarising complex information to guide clinical care.