Family and Marriage Counsellor (Sakina)

Role Overview

Family and Marriage Counsellor (Sakina) at SEHA Hospitals, delivering high-quality psychological services across multiple service areas and populations involving autonomous clinical practice, collaboration with senior clinical psychologists and multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory standards.

Role Purpose

Deliver specialist psychological interventions and consultations to individuals, families, and groups experiencing severe and complex psychological difficulties, while maintaining autonomous clinical practice and ensuring quality and regulatory compliance across multiple service areas.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Service Delivery

• Ensure and participate in providing coverage to various service areas, populations, and settings.
• Provide highly specialist one-to-one clinical psychological consultations within areas of specialization.
• Deliver psychological interventions for individuals, families, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Provide psychological services as an autonomous and independent practitioner to service-users, carers, and team colleagues.
• Manage casework for people experiencing severe psychological difficulties, prioritizing workload to ensure skills address the more severe and complex psychological presentations.

Assessment and Treatment Planning

• Coordinate the assessment and formulation of risk management plans for clients within the case load and contribute to the formulation of risk management plans for other clients within the service.
• 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.
• Develop psychosocial formulations for those service-users with the most highly complex problems so as to inform and guide intervention strategies.
• Exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and/or referral of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based intervention plans.

Collaboration and Consultation

• Collaborate with senior clinical psychologists in the provision of consultative services internally and externally.
• Provide advice to multidisciplinary teams on the psychological aspects of the needs assessment and care planning process.
• Promote high-quality psychological services to patients and carers via direct clinical work and indirectly by collaboration with other team members.

Quality and Compliance

• Promote and maintain quality in all services and ensure continuous quality improvement measures are in place.
• Conduct method evaluation and development as per standard policies and procedures.
• Ensure that Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections.
• 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.
• Comply with and support clinical audit processes within the service and report on these as agreed.

Documentation and Confidentiality

• Document all interventions in appropriate format.
• Maintain the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded.
• Ensure appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures.
• Practice within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures.

Professional Communication and Teamwork

• 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.
• Participate in training and education sessions for department staff, doctors, and nurses.
• Participate in department programs and committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings.
• Participate in the orientation and training of new employees.

Professional Development

• 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

• Master's degree in clinical psychology.
• Current National License.