Principle Clinical Psychologist Critical Care

To work together with the Critical Care follow up and rehabilitation team to establish a Critical Care specific psychology service for patients, relatives and staff. To undertake psychological assessment, and provide highly specialised, evidence based psychological interventions in individual, family or group format To work alongside the critical care follow up nurses and consultants and to attend follow up clinics; to help identify patients and relatives that may benefit from psychological interventions and to provide these in separate psychology clinics To identify and treat inpatients in critical care that may benefit from acute psychological interventions, e.g. anxiety, panic attacks, depression, intermittent hallucinations To work closely with the critical care multi-disciplinary team, give advice and help guide patients recovery and rehabilitation To work closely with and support all members of staff in the Critical Care Units; this includes holding debrief sessions after potentially
traumatic events, wellbeing sessions and providing psychological interventions for groups and individuals To provide teaching to non-psychologist members of staff To help create individual de-escalation plans for inpatients whose behaviour is challenging for staff To liaise with other critical care psychologists locally, regionally and nationally for professional development and to help develop the service further To provide supervision for less experienced psychologists where appropriate, including undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students during their placement, assistant and trainee psychologists, and qualified psychologist To collect data and organise feedback to evaluate and audit the psychology service To contribute to research