Job Description
Enable Ireland provides services to over 13,000 children and adults with disabilities and their families from 43 locations in 14 counties. Covering childhood to adulthood, our expert teams work with the individual and their family on a plan for each life stage.
Our services for children and their families cover all aspects of a child's physical, educational, and social development from early infancy through adolescence. For adults, we offer a range of services covering personal development.
About Enable Ireland
Enable Ireland is an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of children and adults with disabilities in Ireland and is named as one of Ireland's Irish Independent 150 Best Employers 2024.
We are proud to maintain a Silver Award in Diversity from the Irish Centre for Diversity and vigorously advocate for fairness, respect, equality, diversity, inclusion, and engagement.
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly-motivated Clinical/Educational Psychologist (Staff Grade) to join our team in Network 5-Galway City West.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide a range of psychological services to children 0–18 years and their families who attend City West Network Disability Team, within an interdisciplinary framework and family centred practice.
* Support other staff and students as assigned.
Duties
1. Work as a member of the interdisciplinary team to provide an integrated and co-ordinated service to children and their families.
2. Provide consultation and support programmes for parents and families as appropriate.
3. Provide reports and information to relevant others, refer to other professionals; liaise with schools and other external agencies as appropriate.
4. Attend and participate in relevant meetings and case conferences.
5. Integrate clinical/educational psychology skills with current clinical psychology theory and relevant supporting evidence-based knowledge.
6. Facilitate a family-centred approach.
7. Adhere to the principle of informed consent prior to and throughout interventions.
8. Facilitate the service user to make informed decisions re: psychology interventions.
9. Use skilled observations and interviewing, including in complex situations.
10. Select, implement and analyse the outcomes of standardised and non-standardised assessments.
11. Collaborate skillfully with the child/young person as appropriate and work in partnership with his/her parent, family, carer to identify goals, including complex situations.
12. Apply clinical reasoning to plan, grade, implement and modify interventions that are outcome-based and relevant to the child or young person's goals.
13. Facilitate individual and group interventions in a skilled manner.
14. Evaluate and apply outcomes of intervention in collaboration with all stakeholders.
Manage a Caseload
1. Apply and develop caseload management procedures including prioritisation.
2. Co-ordinate intervention with other team members and with other agencies to ensure an optimum service is provided for all service users.
3. Evaluate effectiveness of current caseload management procedures in collaboration with the team manager and team.
Professional Reasoning
1. Engage and articulate reflection and evaluation on practice.
2. Demonstrate a logical and systematic approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
3. Engage in clinical reasoning based on clinical/educational psychology practice and supporting evidence.
Quality Assurance
1. Contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of relevant quality assurance initiatives.
2. Adhere to Enable Ireland's policies, procedures and guidelines.
3. Adhere to City West Network Disability Team policies and guidelines.
4. Ensure that professional practice is in line with Enable Ireland's Duty of Care and core values.
5. Ensure timely and accurate record keeping in line with the requirements of Enable Ireland, The Freedom of Information Act (1997 and 2003) and The Data Protection Act (1988 and 2003).
Professional Development & Support
1. Attend and actively contribute to relevant clinical and professional meetings.
2. Participate in regular supervision.
3. Direct their own personal professional development by ensuring that they maintain and develop their professional skill and knowledge.
4. Participate in training and developmental opportunities as identified and agreed in their Personal Professional Development Plan (PDP)/Team Development Plan (TDP) (as appropriate).
5. Support and contribute to research initiatives as required and appropriate.
Requirements
* A university degree or diploma (QQI 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.
* An Irish post-graduate professional psychology qualification accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland in Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychology.
* An equivalent qualification from another jurisdiction validated by the Department of Health.
* Demonstrate competence in the Care Group/s applied for.
* Applicants with a clinical or counselling psychology qualification must demonstrate that they have acquired in appropriate health settings, for the area/areas for which they wish to apply - Disability (Child and Adult), Child Psychology, Adult Psychology - either at least 60 days or equivalent supervised clinical placements as part of the professional qualification; or at least 60 days or equivalent post-qualification supervised work experience as a psychologist.
* Applicants with an educational psychology qualification must demonstrate that they have acquired in appropriate health settings for the area/areas for which they wish to apply - Child Disability, Child Psychology - either at least 60 days or equivalent supervised clinical placements as part of the professional qualification; or at least 60 days or equivalent post-qualification supervised work experience as a psychologist.
* Must be a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) or a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
* Eligible to work in the state.
* Experience of inter and trans-disciplinary team working.
* Experience of working in a disability service.
* Experience of working with children and adolescents with a range of disabilities post qualification.
* Knowledge and skills in the management of behaviours of concern.
* Knowledge and skills in conducting diagnostic assessments in children and young people including Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disabilities.