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Basic Grade Clinical Psychologist
This private organisation is seeking a Basic Grade Clinical Psychologist to work within the area of intellectual disabilities. Services that are provided are within day care, residential, home, school and training settings. Psychologists receive professional support and training from a multi-disciplinary team. The staff have vast experience in working with persons of wide-ranging diagnosis, of varying age-ranges and settings. This helps us to combine the best of individual talents with the use of the most up to date best practice. They are seeking people who have excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
Responsibilities:
•To co-ordinate and monitor the caseload in order that clients and families receive optimum benefit from the Psychological service.
•Undertake Psychological assessments and carry out appropriate therapy for clients and those referred to the service on a residential or day attendance basis.
•Maintaining proper records of services provided, ensuring all client assessments are filed appropriately in a manner compatible with the F.O.I. act.
•Initiate, implement and monitor programmes as appropriate to the professional standards of a psychologist also to monitor and assess the clients' progress and make adjustments as necessary to programmes.
•Provide on-going support, information and assistance to employees in carrying out programmes with clients.
•Maintaining collaborative working relationships with Psychology colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
•Provide professional reports as necessary and co-operate in appropriate research projects approved by the Service.
•Maintain detailed statistical or other records relating to psychology.
•To furnish as requested reports or other statistical information.
•To work as part of the multi disciplinary team and participate in case conferences as requested.
•Participate in the supervision of basic grade Psychologists and the training of Psychology students as necessary.
•Monitoring and keeping up to date with new developments in the area of Psychology.
•Participate in the annual performance review system.
•Ensure that each person with and intellectual disability is treated with the utmost respect and dignity.
•Ensure the health and safety policy is fully complied with.
•To maintain a high standard in relation to assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic and recording procedures.
•Maintaining and promoting good relationships with all other disciplines and working within the agreed policies and codes of practice.
•Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times in relation to all aspects of work.
Requirements:
•Must hold a degree or diploma in Psychology
•Validated to work in Ireland with the Department of Health & Children.
•Ideally 1 year's post graduate experience.
•Ideally have experience working with children with learning disability.