Clinical Psychologist (Sakina)

Role Overview

Clinical Psychologist position at SEHA Hospitals, Sakina. The role provides independent psychological assessment and intervention within areas of specialization.

Role Purpose

Deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, consultation, and intervention to individuals, families, and groups with complex psychological needs, while ensuring quality, safety, and compliance across all clinical activities.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Assessment & Intervention

• 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 those service-users with the most highly complex problems so as to inform and guide intervention strategies.
• 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.
• Exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and/or referral of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based intervention plans.
• 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.

Risk Management & Care Planning

• Coordinate the assessment and formulation of risk management plans for clients within caseload and contribute to the formulation of risk management plans for other clients within the service.
• Provide advice to multi-disciplinary teams on the psychological aspects of the needs assessment and care planning process.

Service Delivery & 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.
• Provide psychological services as an autonomous and independent practitioner to service-users, carers, and team colleagues.
• Promote high-quality psychological services to patients and carers via direct clinical work and indirectly by collaboration with other team members.

Quality, Safety & 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.
• 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.
• Document all interventions in appropriate format.
• Comply with and support clinical audit processes within the service and report on these as agreed.

Communication & Professional Conduct

• 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.

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.
• 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 timeframes.