Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Town Sheffield
Salary £46,148 - £60,504 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 27/04/2025 23:59
Interview date 12/05/2025
Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Physical Health
NHS AfC: Band 7/8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
We are delighted to advertise this varied post working with people with long term conditions. This is a Band 7/8a preceptorship role (subject to meeting progression requirements). In our latest staff survey, 95% of staff report feeling valued and cared for and that their role makes a difference.
If you are passionate about making a positive difference to the quality of life of people living with long-term health conditions, this post may be the opportunity you are looking for.
We aim to attract a committed, diverse, and talented workforce who are passionate about delivering psychological care within an acute hospital setting and adapting approaches to meet the needs of our services and service users. In return, we offer a supportive, dynamic work setting where you can link with colleagues and develop your career.
We welcome applications from HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologists with skills and experience relevant to this context; support will be given for anyone returning to the workplace. Candidates due to qualify in Autumn 2025 are eligible to apply and can be employed on Band 6 pending confirmation of HCPC registration if necessary.
As a department, we recognise that diversity of workforce extends our skills, experiences, and ideas, thereby adding value and creativity to our services. The department has an active Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group and welcomes applications from candidates from all backgrounds.
Main duties of the job
In this post you would become part of the The Long-Term Conditions Psychology Team based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital working into the clinical specialties of Chronic Pain and Haematology (Haemophilia and other bleeding disorders, TTP and Sickle Cell and Thalassemia). The Long Term Conditions Team is part of the Psychological Outpatient Services of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Service Area: Long term conditions (Royal Hallamshire Team), Outpatient Services working into Haematology (Haemophilia and other bleeding disorders, TTP and Sickle Cell and Thalassemia) and Chronic Pain.
Within this diverse role there will be opportunities for multidisciplinary team working, including being the link person for a particular MDT, providing supervision and training along with guidance to the wider staff group. Working with patients and team members, there is potential to have a far-reaching positive impact both directly and indirectly, making a huge difference to outcomes and quality of life for patients with long-term health conditions.
This post will work primarily with patients with long-term health conditions in an outpatient setting, although there may be opportunities to undertake some inpatient work.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
As a member of the department, you would be part of a substantial, experienced, and enthusiastic team, benefitting from inhouse professional development including clinical supervision, special interest groups and opportunities to engage in our wider projects.
The department is committed to supporting our staff and have a well-supported Staff Engagement and Wellbeing Group. The Trust has a flexible working policy, allowing for a range of flexible / hybrid working options as appropriate to the service needs. The attached document outlines our department strategy.
As a dynamic department, we have seen considerable growth in recent years and have a portfolio of new service developments. Continuing professional development is strongly supported, as appropriate to the individual’s and organisation’s requirements.
The department has strong links with the Sheffield, Leeds and Hull DClinPsy courses. We also offer placements to trainees on DCounsPsy courses.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Please also note this vacancy is a training post so all applicants will start at Band 7 and upon completion of necessary skills and/ or training will progress to Band 8a.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* (Band 8a) Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society
* (Band 7 & 8a) Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* (Band 7 & 8a) Eligible for Practitioner Full Membership of the BPS Divisions of Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or working towards this- for band 7)
* (Band 7) Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), or counselling psychology as accredited by the HCPC, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society. Will consider applicants due to complete training in September 2023.
* (Band 7 & 8a) Pre-qualification training and qualifications in other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
* (Band 8a) Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
* (Band 8a) Significant experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups including with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* (Band 8a) Significant experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care
* (Band 8a) Working clinically in health and medical settings.
* (Band 8a) Working with people affected by health-related psychological problems.
* (Band 8a) Working effectively with other professionals in multidisciplinary settings.
* (Band 7) Specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
* (Band 7) Experience of working with patients across the lifespan
* (Band 7) Working with a wide variety of presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
* (Band 8a) Experience of working with MDT groups
* (Band 8a) Experience of working into an inpatient and/or outpatient Health Psychology Service (for band 8a)
* (Band 8a) Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision, including to healthcare staff.
* (Band 8a) Experience of the application of clinical or counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
* (Band 8a) Experiences of working with young adults and adults in a physical health setting
* (Band 7) Experience of working in a physical health setting
* (Band 7) Experience of working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary setting
* (Band 7) Experience of delivering psychologically informed groups
* (Band 7) Experience of teaching and/or training
* (Band 7) Experience of the application of the practice of psychology in different cultural contexts
Further Training
* (Band 8a) Further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical or counselling psychologist over a minimum of 24 months.
* (Band 7 & 8a) Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical or counselling fields of psychology.
* (Band 7 & 8a) Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* (Band 8a) Formal training in supervision of other psychological practitioners.
* (Band 7) Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, chronic or terminal illness, complex psychological or physical problems, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
* (Band 7) High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological or psychotherapeutic approaches
Skills and Knowledge
* (Band 7 & 8a) Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management
* (Band 8a) Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* (Band 8a) Good time management and prioritisation skills
* (Band 7 & 8a) Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* (Band 8a) Skills in working with diversity.
* (Band 8a) Ability/skills in working through interpreters.
* (Band 7 & 8a) Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* (Band 8a) Knowledge of legislation and national policies and guidance in relation to the patient group, and physical and mental health.
* (Band 8a) Specialist knowledge of psychological, physical health and medical interventions relating to acute physical health care
* (Band 7) Ability to establish and maintain professional credibility at all levels of the organisation (for band 7)
* (Band 7) Skills in working effectively with other professionals in multidisciplinary settings
* (Band 8a) Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* (Band 8a) Experience of significantly developing or transforming a service model.
* (Band 8a) Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, chronic or terminal illness, complex psychological or physical problems, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
* (Band 7) Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings (for band 7)
Personal Qualities
* (Band 7 & 8a) Highly developed ability to communicate effectively (orally and in writing) highly complex and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* (Band 7 & 8a) Ability to manage time effectively and prioritise workload
* (Band 7 & 8a) Positive attitude, sensitivity, and commitment to working with patient groups affected by medical/physical health conditions
* (Band 7 & 8a) Ability to deal with frequent exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances
* (Band 7 & 8a) Ability to maintain intense concentration on a frequent basis
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