Psychological Therapist - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

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Norwich, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To provide high quality psychological therapy in the relevant clinical department.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

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 or group.

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

To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan of clients with medical conditions.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients in the specialty, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To act as case manager, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of treatment plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni
- and multi-disciplinary care. Please see the attached job description for full details.