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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Service user (if applicable) (both direct and indirect)

1.     To be responsible for implementing trauma focused therapy for individuals, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

2.     Being open to offering specialist PTSD and general assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

3.     If assessing, to formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, to evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors.

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

5.     To provide specialist psychological advice and consultation regarding PTSD management and treatment to other members of staff, and to clients to assist in formulation diagnosis and treatment plans when required.

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

7.     To undertake risk assessment and risk management for service users assessed and in treatment.

8.     To communicate highly complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner in situations with service users who may be extremely hostile or highly emotional requiring the highest level of communication skills.  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 both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

People (HR) Management

1.     To receive regular clinical supervision from a specialist clinician.

2.     To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to PTSD and/or the service as agreed with the service manager.

3.     To provide advice, consultation and informal ‘training’ in PTSD to staff working with individuals and groups across a range of agencies in team meetings.

Information Management

1.     To be able to send and receive email, including attachments.

2.     To be able to competently use a word processing package

3.     To be able to use a database package.

4.     To use computers to write reports and record data.

Service Development

1.     To offer views around the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, in team meetings or other contexts (one to one discussions with team staff).

2.     To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in your work.

Effort, Mental and Environment

1.     To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.

2.     To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychotherapy across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective psychotherapy practitioner, taking part in regular clinical supervision and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of psychotherapy, other psychological therapies and related disciplines.

3.     To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the relevant professional body and Trust policies and procedures.

4.     To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.