Clinical Neuro Psychologist (Sakina)

Role Overview

Clinical Neuro Psychologist at SEHA Hospitals.

Role Purpose

Deliver highly specialist psychological consultations, assessments, and interventions for individuals, families, and groups with complex neuropsychological presentations. Exercise autonomous clinical responsibility for case formulation, risk management, and treatment planning while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and professional practice.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Assessment & Intervention

• Provide highly specialist one-to-one clinical psychological consultations within areas of specialization.
• Provide independent psychological assessment and intervention 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 those service-users with the most highly complex problems to inform and guide intervention strategies.
• Deliver casework for people experiencing severe psychological difficulties, prioritizing workload to ensure that skills address the more severe and complex psychological presentations within this area of work.
• Exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and/or referral of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based intervention plans.

Risk Management & 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.
• Provide advice to multi-disciplinary teams on the psychological aspects of the needs assessment and care planning process.

Consultation & Collaboration

• 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 psychological services as an autonomous/independent practitioner to service-users, carers and team colleagues.
• Communicate in a professional and courteous manner with patients, family and other medical personnel as necessary to obtain information for laboratory records, explain procedures, clarify orders and communicate status.
• Interact courteously with doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers when answering questions or providing other information.

Service Coverage

• Ensure and participate in providing coverage to the various service areas, populations, and settings.

Quality, Safety & Compliance

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

Education & Professional Development

• 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.
• Maintain professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or online education units.
• Ensure appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures.
• Complete and maintain all regulatory requirements including licensure, certification and other mandatory training within established time frames.