PURPOSE OF POSITIONTo provide psychological services from a family therapy model with their clients and their families.
L: Therapy model focusses on the young person while bringing in Mum, Dad and others. It is an inclusive therapeutic setting. Strengths based approach. HR person didn’t know if a psychodynamic approach would be appropriate. CBT skills may be helpful relative to the dynamics of serving Maori and Pasifika children. Must be a fit for the culture. Training on Maori and Pasifika cultural aspects would be available.
To act as part of the Management Team providing guidance, supervision, and training where appropriate.
L: Need someone at least senior enough to lead and train others. Clinical Manager focuses more on liaising with the Ministry of Health. Upskilling will be a need working with social workers and counsellors.
REPORTING TOClinical Manager
Dotted line to the Chief Executive Officer
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Provision of clinical services
•Assessments of young people and their families/whanau to a standard of professional competence and within an appropriate time frame. These include behavioural, cognitive, and neuropsychological assessments.
L: Neuropsych would be of interest.
•Based on the assessment, provide specialised psychological intervention and treatment for young people.
L: Ages 10 and above would be fine. Would only rarely have any children under age 10. Almost entirely the ages are 12 to 19.
•Working with Therapists, Youth Workers, and Education providers to develop and supervise behavioural plans for young people.
L: Last guy who set up the therapy model was an American, Charles Fishman. Give Stephen a heads-up first.
•Providing reports, maintaining clinical records, and fulfilling all requirements regarding documentation and record keeping for clinical and organisational purposes.
•Conducting competent planned interventions for clients.
•Providing a clinical consultative service for Youth Workers, Caregivers, and Clinical team members.
•Contributing to the development of the professional knowledge and skills base of the team through consultation, coaching, and contribution to team’s training and development programme.
•Undertaking any other appropriate clinical activities in consultation with the Clinical Manager.
•Provide best practice clinical advice across their suite of services
•Provide crisis management advice/support (including after-hours, as agreed)
L: After-hours work would be rare for this particular role. They have a Crisis Management Officer on a social worker level to provide immediate triage support.
Training and Development
•Maintain the required skillset to provide best practice care
•To comply with the requirements of the HPCA Act
•Attend ongoing supervision with a senior clinician as appropriate to the needs of the psychologist
•Identify areas for professional development and attend education and training opportunities to target those areas
L: No specific budget set out yet. Not yet allocated. Suggested $3,000 to $5,000 but this is negotiable.
•Meet the requirements for ongoing registration
•Upskill, train, and provide supervision to their staff
L: Definitely a need.
•Provide guidance to clinical staff seeking external development
IDEAL APPOINTEE
Required:•Must have prior experience working with lower, social-economic people.
•Must be registered as a psychologist with the New Zealand Psychologists’ Board.
•Postgraduate qualifications in Clinical or Educational Psychology.
•Proven practical experience in a wide range of applied psychology, including assessment, intervention, consultation, training and evaluation with children, young persons and their families.
•Practical experience in behavioural psychotherapeutic and family therapy models.
L: Psychodynamic ought to be a mode of therapy that could be appropriate but Stephen couldn’t say for sure as this falls slightly outside of his scope of knowledge about this role.
•Hands on experience in working with children, young people and their families, with an emphasis on Maori and/or Pacific Island families.
•Strong understanding and commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
L: They can help orient overseas psychologists.
•Demonstrated capacity to work diligently and professionally, with respect for organisational requirements and deadlines
•Track record of driving continuous improvement
•Experience and capability in providing training
•Strong relationship management skills
•Understanding of reporting requirements
•Demonstrated initiative
•A clean driving licence
•Computer literacy
•Satisfactory Police and Oranga Tamairki checks