Clinical Psychologist - Addiction (Sakina)

Role Overview

Clinical Psychologist - Addiction at SEHA, based in Sakina.

Role Purpose

Provide independent psychological assessment and intervention within areas of specialization in addiction, delivering highly specialist one-to-one consultations and psychological interventions while maintaining quality, safety, and continuous improvement across the service.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Delivery

• Provide highly specialist one-to-one clinical psychological consultations within areas of specialization.
• Provide psychological interventions for individuals, families, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Develop psychosocial formulations for service-users with the most highly complex problems so as to inform and guide intervention strategies.
• Provide casework for people experiencing severe psychological difficulties, prioritizing workload to ensure that skills are used to address the more severe and complex psychological presentations within this area of work.
• Provide psychological services as an autonomous/independent practitioner to service-users, carers, and team colleagues.

Risk Assessment & Treatment Planning

• Coordinate 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.
• Exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and/or referral of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based intervention plans.
• Participate in decision making for and evaluate 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.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Ensure and participate in providing coverage to the various service areas, populations, and settings.
• Collaborate with senior clinical psychologists in the provision of consultative services internally and externally.
• Promote high quality psychological services to patients and carers via direct clinical work and indirectly by collaboration with other team members.
• Provide advice to multi-disciplinary teams on the psychological aspects of the needs assessment and care planning process.
• Communicate in a professional and courteous manner with patients, family, and other medical personnel as necessary to obtain information for records, explain procedures, clarify orders, and communicate status.
• Interact courteously with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers when answering questions or providing other information.

Quality, Safety & Compliance

• Promote and maintain quality in all services and ensure continuous quality improvement measures are in place.
• Conduct method evaluation/development as per standard policies and procedures.
• Comply with all safety, health, and quality control programs and procedures as applicable.
• Comply with applicable precautions for environmental safety and infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection.
• Maintain the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded.
• Practice within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures.
• Ensure that Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections.
• Be responsible for documenting all interventions in appropriate format.
• Comply with and support clinical audit processes within the service and report on these as agreed.

Education & Professional Development

• Participate in training and education sessions for department staff, doctors, and nurses.
• Participate in department programs/committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings.
• Participate in the orientation and training of new employees.
• Ensure appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures.
• Maintain professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars, or online education units.
• Complete and maintain all regulatory requirements including licensure, certification, and other mandatory training within established time frames.

Qualifications & Experience

Special Certificate: Required / Desired / N.A.