Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist

1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of children based upon theappropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological datafrom a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychologicalassessment, self-reported measures, rating scales, direct and indirectstructured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, familymembers and others involved in the childs care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/ormanagement of a childs psychological problems. This is to be based upon anappropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employingmethods of proven efficiency, across the full range of care settings.
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To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions forchildren, carers, families and groups within and across teams. This wouldinvolve adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upondifferent explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisionalhypotheses.
4. To use highly developed specialist knowledge of a range of work proceduresand practices including that of SEND processes and education agenda. See attached Job description and person specification attached.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

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