Senior Psychologist

• Provide a range of psychological services as required in partnership with children and families including assessment, review, programme implementation, behaviour management and differential diagnosis.
• Be responsible for the delivery of professional psychology services appropriate to the post in line with best practice.
• Manage and coordinate service delivery in area of responsibility.
• Assign duties and responsibilities as appropriate to ensure effective service delivery.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people with respect to their psychological needs.
• Contribute a psychological perspective to case planning and multi-agency case working.
• Contribute towards the ongoing development of the service, including participation in the evaluation of service delivery and in research initiatives.
• Monitor and keep up-to-date with developments in psychology and disseminate information where relevant to staff and families.
• Attend training courses and participate in activities for continuing professional development.
• Contribute to and participate in training initiatives for staff.
• Attend and actively contribute to relevant clinical, professional and service meetings.
• To develop and forge good working relationships with other agencies, networks and HSE.
• Work as part of the inter/trans-disciplinary team, providing an integrated service to children and families and contributing to the development of person-centred plans.
• Provide advice/support programmes for parents and families.
• Work in collaboration with the other members of the interdisciplinary team in the planning and delivery of services for children.
• Keep the Children’s Services Manager/CDNT Manager informed of new and emerging need of service users.
• Communicate effectively with parents of children attending the service.
• Make decisions in a transparent manner by involving and empowering families.
• Maintain quality standards and participate in quality developments.
• Maintain statistical records and provide information for service planning to management as required.
• With the team, provide budget submissions, annual reports and other relevant reports as required.
• Provide supervision to basic grade staff and/or assistant psychologists (if any) and supervise students as required.
• Induction of new staff
• Attend training in Child Protection as required.
• Comply with policies and procedures of the service.
• Promote and deliver services within the ethos and philosophy of Enable Ireland.
• Perform any other duties appropriate to the position over time.

Requirements:

• University degree or diploma (QQ1 level 8 equivalent) obtained with 1st or 2nd class honours in which Psychology was taken as a
  major subject and honours obtained in that subject
  And
• Have an Irish post-graduate professional psychology qualification accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland in Clinical,
  Counselling or Educational Psychology
  Or
• An equivalent qualification from another jurisdiction validated by the Department of Health.
  And
• Demonstrate competence in the Care Group/s applied for.
  And
• Applicants must have at least five years satisfactory post-graduate experience in the area of
  professional psychology, no more than three years of which was spent in gaining the postgraduate
  professional qualification and no less than two years full-time spent in post qualification experience as a
  professional psychologist.
• Years in excess of the permitted three years for completion of the post-graduate training or time not worked will not be taken into consideration when
  assessing the five years’ experience requirement.
  And
• Previous experience in a senior post.
• Experience of inter disciplinary team working
• Skills and competencies with assessment and intervention with mental health needs as they present in children / young people with disabilities.
• Experience of working with children aged from birth to 18 years, with a range of disabilities (including physical disability, autism, learning disability) and
  their families.
• Experience and qualification in completing diagnostic work-ups including ASD, Developmental Delay and Intellectual Disability.