Job Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join Sheffield Health and Social Care in the stroke psychology services. You will be joining well-established, valued services, working with multidisciplinary teams in providing high quality, evidence-based care to stroke survivors and families across the pathway in Sheffield and Rotherham.
The role will be varied and dynamic, supporting the development of the range of clinical psychologist skills as well as specialist stroke skills and knowledge. The post will cover Sheffield and Rotherham services working as part of a stroke psychology team.
This post offers great opportunities for working with other professionals within Sheffield, Rotherham and the wider region, including inputting into national and regional working groups. As part of the Older Adult and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership. The OA&NC department is a group of psychologists working in a range of settings (older adult mental health, dementia, stroke, brain injury, long term neurological conditions), allowing access to a wealth of experience (CBT accredited supervisors, neuropsychology supervision, EMDR trained psychologists).
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 a significant role in consultation, advice, training and supervision.
3. To offer supervision to other roles (including Assistant Psychologists and 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.
About Us
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.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of.
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.
We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
Job Responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information.
Clinical Responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological/therapeutic assessments of service users referred to the stroke service pathway based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the person's care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological/therapeutic treatment and/or management of a service user's problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person's problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
3. To work daily in individual, family and/or group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex acute and distressing psychological problems.
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological/therapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
7. To provide highly specialist psychological/therapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website. #J-18808-Ljbffr