Educational Psychologist

Job Description

• Providing highly specialist one-to-one clinical psychological consultations within areas of specialization
• Providing Psychological interventions for individuals, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses 
• Coordinating the assessment and formulation of risk management plans for clients within their case load and contribute to the formulation of risk management plans for other clients within the service
• Participating in decision making for and evaluating treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group 
• Promoting high quality psychological services to patients and carers, via direct clinical work and indirectly by collaboration with other team members
• Providing psychological services (as an autonomous/independent practitioner) to service-users, carers and team colleagues
• Providing advice to multi-disciplinary teams on the psychological aspects of the needs assessment and care planning process
• Developing psychosocial formulations for those service-users with the most highly complex problems so as to inform and guide intervention strategies
• Exercising professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and or referral  of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based intervention plans 
• Providing casework for people experiencing severe psychological difficulties. To prioritize workload to ensure that skills are used to address the more severe and complex psychological presentations within this area of work