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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical
• To work with members of the crisis teams and CAMHS to rapidly
develop psychological formulations about children and/or families in 
crisis.
• To use psychological formulations to provide sound, evidence-based 
guidance to colleagues, families, carers and young people.
• To provide clinical advice and notes that accurately outline the 
information being used to guide the formulation and have clear 
guidance about any mental health risk and any next steps.
• To ensure any mental health risks discussed in attendance to crisis call 
outs are shared appropriately within the parameters of the crisis 
pathways and working relationships with members of GMP.
• To help the appropriate teams use the formulation to inform other 
professionals of how to understand and work in accordance with the 
formulation in order to improve outcomes and reduce risk for young 
people. 
• To contribute to the multi-disciplinary team’s psychological 
understanding of young people and their families and offer guidance to 
improve mental health and other important outcomes. 
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the entirety of 
your work.
• To take an active role in the process of multi-disciplinary risk
assessment, utilising clinical guidelines to support consultation and
formulation processes, documenting formulations and 
recommendations as appropriate. 
• To support the family and multidisciplinary professionals to understand 
and take positive risks, as part of an agreed plan. 
• To report adverse incidents (for clinical and research purposes) and 
ensure documentation is detailed and supported by evidence. 
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the advice, 
consultation and formulation provided.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based
framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the
service across all settings and agencies serving the client group. 
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information 
concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of young 
people engaging with crisis services. 
• To provide expertise, brief evidence-based therapeutic support, 
enhance coping skills, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and
appropriate provision of psychological care to the young people.
• To create a psychologically safe space in which individuals or the team 
consider the impact of the work and to think about ways to mitigate the 
potential risks to their own wellbeing.
• To utilise their expert knowledge about vicarious trauma to help teams 
take steps to reduce the risk of secondary trauma while doing this 
work.
• To gain, evaluate, disseminate, and implement research findings.
• in, evaluate, disseminate, and implement research findings.
• te, and implement research findings.
• · To review and reflect upon own practice through participation in and 
effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal.
• · To fully engage in research team and clinical team meetings.
• To keep detailed clinical and research notes to inform the young 
person’s ongoing care and role within the research study.
• To proactively support young people’s engagement in the research 
study, alongside their parents/carers, or other relevant trusted adults in 
the young person’s life.
• To obtain informed assent/consent for inclusion from prospective 
participants in research activities.
• To conduct and document risk assessment in therapeutic and training 
situations, hospital, and community settings, balancing the conflicting 
interaction of the individual needs of the children and adolescents, 
those who care for them, therapeutic goals, and risk minimisation.
Teaching, training, and supervision
• To provide training and workshops to professionals working within the 
Greater Manchester, particularly in relation to psychological trauma
and research findings.
• To work with managers to contribute to the identification of the clinical 
training needs of staff working in crisis pathways and to work towards 
addressing such training needs as appropriate.
• To maintain and develop skills in the area of own professional post
graduate training and clinical supervision skills.
• To receive regular clinical and research supervision from a senior 
clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional 
colleagues.
• To contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching and training of 
clinical and counselling psychologists, as appropriate and with 
agreement from senior management. This may include contributing to 
the supervision of clinical psychology trainees on placement.
• To receive regular individual and peer group clinical supervision in 
accordance with the good practice guideline of the appropriate 
registered Professionals Standards Authority.
• To participate in and develop an up-to-date personal development plan 
reflecting on own needs and engaging in development of clear 
objectives.
• To maintain and develop specialist psychological knowledge and skills, 
using appraisal and continuing professional development systems.
• To provide clinical supervision to psychologists/psychological 
therapists and other professionals, as agreed with the Clinical Leads
• To undertake any available and appropriate management training 
within the service.
• To represent senior clinical psychology colleagues at service meetings, 
as directed by the Lead Psychologist for the service/Chief Investigator 
for the study.
• To adhere to the Code of Conduct as outlined by the BPS and the 
Division of Clinical Psychology and by the Health and Care Professions 
Council and other registered Professionals Standards Authority. 
• To adhere to the Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act, as 
required.
• To take part in regular audit and peer review.
• To provide a positive role model to staff and enable a high level of 
support in order to deliver high quality care to the client group.
Management, Recruitment, Policy, and Service development
• To maintain the spreadsheet of activity for the research team and 
utilise feedback mechanisms for all training, consultation and staff 
support and where necessary develop bespoke feedback mechanisms.
• To contribute to the writing and development of reports, policy 
documents, and to provide overall support to the research process. 
• To carry out regular reviews of services delivered (e.g., 111/999 call 
outs, staff support) to the clinical lead and chief investigator.
• Support the chief investigator with refining the treatment protocol and 
associated documents to ensure the service is being delivered to a 
high quality with treatment integrity, incorporating suitable 
psychological models.
• To identify good practice, to share it and promote it regionally and 
nationally with the research team.
• To contribute to research, policy and practice development as 
identified, and to seek proactively opportunities to engage in the same.
• To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, 
responsive and accessible service.
• To exercise delegated responsibility for managing, alongside senior 
management, the resources available, according to the SoECAT and 
project budget.
• To exercise responsibility for recording and implementing the 
systematic governance of psychological practice within the 
service/team.
Research and service evaluation
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support 
best practice in clinical research and practice.
• To undertake appropriate research with the team and provide research 
advice to other staff undertaking research through the Young People’s 
Research Centre.
• To initiate project management, including complex audit and service 
evaluation with colleagues.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the 
team’s operational policies and service, keeping detailed records to 
inform the overarching research process.
General
• To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the 
highest professional standards of practice, through active participation 
in internal and external CPD training and development programmes

• To take part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and 
maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the 
field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
• To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical records 
keeping in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British 
Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local 
policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and 
wider child psychology 
This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture  of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required  from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed  through the agreed process