Clinical

• To work autonomously to provide high quality evidence-based therapies to individual and groups of patients.

• Manage a caseload of patients with responsibility for assessment (including risk), formulation and therapy.

• To spend a minimum of six out of eight sessions engaged in face- to-face work with patients each day (pro-rata for part time staff) unless otherwise agreed.

• To offer assessment; routine (i.e., intake interviews) and complex assessments to patients (i.e., risk assessment, psychometric, and neuropsychological where appropriate etc.) and provide reports when necessary.

• To proactively contribute to the achievement of good clinical outcomes for patients and evaluate the efficacy of the therapies provided using standardized outcome measures.

• To manage patient risk effectively.

• Communicate with patients and their families in a way that is open, sensitive, empathic, and caring.

• To work with multidisciplinary team colleagues to develop comprehensive care plans.

• To make appropriate referrals when necessary and be responsible for following these up.

• To maintain retention of patients above agreed rate (currently 75%) and keep no show rate under agreed rate (Currently 10%).

Teaching, training, and supervision:

• Participate in monthly clinical supervision – internally or externally.

• To deliver teaching/training/presentations when required. American Center for Psychiatry and Neurology

Skills

• To provide specialist evidence based psychological assessment, formulation and therapy, and make autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
• Provide consultation and advice on psychological therapies to clients, their families and non-psychology colleagues.
• To work with patients across the lifespan (adults and children, unless otherwise agreed).