The major responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
Conduct assessments
· Conduct intake psychological and psycho-social, screening and measurement tools as a base line assessment.
· Manage clients with psychological and mental health conditions.
· Prepare and document assessment reports for routine cases.
· Identify gaps in assessment tools in relation to application in local contexts and propose possible contextualisation to supervisor.
· Deliver case presentations within psychological services.
Deliver interventions
· Perform case formulation and implement interventions as per evidence-based and data driven.
· Collaborate and co-manage with the treatment team, the psychiatrist and other allied health workers within the mental health ecosystem.
· Deliver interventions for cases including medico-legal and forensic cases under supervision.
· Identify areas of improvements to existing interventions based on research and sector trends.
· Deliver psychoeducation, psycho-social and behaviour interventions
· Apply appropriate psychotherapy interventions such as CBT, DBT, Family therapy or any other appropriate approaches.
Build stakeholder relationships or capacity
· Provide psychological inputs to other specialised departments and relevant professionals.
· Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver and improve client care and services.
Maintain professional, legal and ethical standards
· Adhere to professional standards in clinical and legal and ethical practices.
· Adhere to policies and procedures for professional practice.
· Identify areas of improvement in client care and services for quality improvement projects
Uplift professional practice in Counselling or psychology
· Assist in the delivery of training programmes as part of continuing professional development.
· Deliver psychoeducation programmes for clients and other organisations.
· Identify areas of improvement in models of client care and services based on evidence-based practices.
· Perform data collection and analysis to support research.
· Provide guidance to peers and interns.
Supervisory Duties
•Provide clinical supervision for new/existing junior staff in the youth mental health team
•Act as a field liaison officer / supervisor for internship programme run by schools, assigned to youth mental health team.
•Assume a supervisory role for peer programme, like PSS programme, by NCSS, for peers.
Any other duties as assigned.
