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Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week (May be opportunity for temporary additional hours for interested candidates)
Job ref: 457-25-7112104
Employer: Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Site: Rotherham General Hospital
Town: Rotherham
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading: NHS AfC: Band 8a
About Us
At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city. We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of. Our values are at the heart of everything we do: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.
Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join Sheffield Health and Social Care in the stroke psychology services based in Rotherham. You will be joining well-established, valued services, working with multidisciplinary teams in providing high quality, evidence-based care to stroke survivors across the pathway.
The role will be varied and dynamic, supporting the development of a range of clinical psychologist skills as well as specialist stroke skills and knowledge. The post will cover Rotherham services working as part of a stroke psychology team.
This post offers great opportunities for working with other professionals within Rotherham and the wider region, including inputting into national and regional working groups. As part of the Clinical Health psychology team, you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership both locally and regionally.
Working with other stroke psychologists will provide great opportunities for support, supervision, and leadership. We support training and development and there may be opportunities in postgraduate clinical neuropsychology training and other relevant areas.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To provide a clinical psychology service to stroke survivors and their families in a range of settings (inpatient, community inpatient rehabilitation units, homes or other community settings) requiring frequent travel.
2. To work collaboratively with the stroke MDT in the delivery of a stepped model of care for both cognitive and emotional difficulties post-stroke, involving significant role in consultation, advice, training, and supervision.
3. To offer supervision to other roles (including Trainee Psychologists) appropriate to banding.
4. To lead on different service development projects and developments, including work in the pathway towards the new National Stroke Service model.
Working for Our Organisation
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us. It's important that you feel supported in your role, and that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are. If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience, and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Clinical
* To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Rotherham Stroke Service.
* To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user's problems.
* To work on a daily basis in face-to-face individual, family, and/or group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups.
* To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users.
* To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users.
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner regarding the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of service users.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
* To receive regular clinical professional supervision.
* To provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate.
* To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists.
* To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology.
* To provide highly specialised advice, consultation, and training to staff working with the service user group.
Management, Recruitment, Policy, Organisational and Service Development
* To contribute to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of aspects of the team's clinical practice.
* To advise both service and professional management on psychological and/or organisational matters.
* To manage waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases.
* To implement policies and propose changes to working practices/procedures.
Research and Service Evaluation
* To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice.
* To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff.
* To supervise DClinPsy service evaluation and/or research projects.
* To disseminate research findings through publications and conference presentations.
Working Environment
* To provide psychological care to service users and their carers in a wide range of settings.
* The job role will involve working alone in situations where there may be some risk of verbal or physical aggression.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure will be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Training and Qualifications
* Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology.
* Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Experience
* Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users.
* Experience of working therapeutically with stroke patients.
Other
* Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload.
* Ability to teach and train others.
We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience.
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