Practitioner Psychologist

Practitioner Psychologist focuses on to provide consultation and psychological advice to members of the multidisciplinary team, as well as to other services and agencies as appropriate.

What the role involves

• To provide consultation and psychological advice to members of the multidisciplinary team, as well as to other services and agencies as appropriate.
• To supervise the psychological work of staff from other disciplines as appropriate or ensure that appropriate supervision is available.
• To support the lead psychologist with service development and research projects.
• To provide highly specialist clinical psychology advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatments.
• Care, to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.
• Care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation, and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

Skills and requirements

• Pre- or post qualification training and qualifications in clinical health psychology, research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients with physical and or mental health conditions across a range of care settings.
• Previous experience of working in a physical health/surgical setting.
• Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience.

Confirmed role details

• To provide professional and clinical supervision to Assistant/graduate Psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• Advocating a psychological perspective with the dominant physical healthcare system, which may challenge the prevailing patterns of care.
• To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording.