Job Description

1. To deliver 20 attended clinical contacts per week. 2. To provide specialist psychological therapy assessments to clients referred to the NHS Talking Therapies service based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.



This will include client self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. 3. To provide at least one NICE recommended psychological therapy for anxiety disorders and/or depression. 4.



To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. 5. To be knowledgeable about DSM-V diagnosis of common mental health problems (as relevant to NHS Talking Therapies) and skilled in the differential diagnosis of clinical disorders. 6.



To be able to clinically formulate clients problems and develop and implement plans for the formal Step 3 treatment and/or management of a clients problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. 7. A good understanding and ability to apply CBT treatment strategies (or other Talking Therapies evidence based approach to appropriate presentations) flexibly across the whole range of disorders seen in NHS Talking Therapies, particularly common mood disorders, including group interventions. 8.



To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions for individuals, couples, carers, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon relevant explanatory models. 9. To be able to use a specific psychological therapy for anxiety and/or depression, in line with NICE guidance, at a specialist level in assessments and interventions, including 1:1 and group interventions. 10.



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, couple or group. 11. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. 12.



To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals in order to support accurate diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan. 13. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients in line with the services risk management policy, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. 14.



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 treatment. 15. To assess and deliver highly complex, sensitive and contentious information. e.g.



deciding whether clients are suitable or unsuitable for particular services, having to break confidentiality at times e.g. referring clients to Social Services regarding safeguarding issues. 16. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.