Job summary
We are seeking to recruit an Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Consultant to join the Specialist Psychotherapy Service (SPS). SPS is comprised of two sister teams: the Mood, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Psychotherapy Service and the Personality/Complex Trauma team.
EMDR for PTSD and cPTSD is one of our key therapeutic offers and we currently have 10 therapists within the service who require specialist EMDR supervision. We hope to recruit an EMDR consultant who can provide this supervision, whilst being embedded within the service, and also holding a small clinical caseload.
We are aiming to recruit someone who has experience of providing medium to long term interventions for people with complex emotional needs and/or experiences of complex trauma. You'll need an enthusiasm for, and experience of working with our service users and in multidisciplinary teams.
We are looking for a Senior Psychological Therapist/Clinical Psychologist who is qualified and registered with the relevant body (Health Professions Council, NMC, BABCP, ACAT, UKCP, BPS) and as an EMDR consultant with EMDR UK.
SPS is a tertiary level service serving people across Sheffield and beyond. We are based in the city centre, close to transport links and with car parking on site.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists/psychological therapists, assistant(s) and trainee(s).
2. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
3. To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice.
4. To contribute to the work of the team through regular participation in team meetings, governance, team development slots and collaboration with other senior members of the team.
5. To contribute to team working groups, for example, around developing our co-production strategy, inclusivity, staff well-being or outcome measures.
6. To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC/BPS/BABCP/RCN or other accrediting organisation as appropriate and other policies/guidelines/standards.
7. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team.
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 such 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.
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 and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access. We have six diverse staff network groups that welcome new members.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
1. To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/psychotherapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
2. To provide highly specialist psychotherapy assessments to service users referred to the Team, 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 persons care.
3. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment/ psychotherapy implementation and/or management of a service users problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
4. To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems.
5. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.
6. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
7. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychotherapy based standard care plans.
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
10. To coordinate, where appropriate, complex intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
11. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during both the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
1. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice HCPC, BPS/BABCP/RCN, UKCP or other accrediting organisation as required e.g. ACAT and Trust guidelines.
2. To provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
3. To provide supervision for trainee psychological therapists/clinical psychologists (as appropriate).
4. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists/psychotherapists, counsellors, assistant(s), or other professionals.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychotherapy/clinical psychology.
6. To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff (including psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS.
* AND Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC.
* OR Post-graduate Diploma qualification in a therapy modality relevant to the service or additional therapeutic training.
* AND Full accreditation and registration with the relevant professional body related to the psychotherapeutic training e.g. BABCP/BACP/UKCP or other body, dependant upon therapeutic modality.
* AND EMDR consultant accredited with the EMDR association UK.
Desirable
* Formal training in clinical supervision.
Experience
Essential
* Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties, including those who have difficulties AW personality disorder/complex trauma.
* Ability to supervise work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties, including those who have difficulties AW personality disorder/complex trauma.
Qualifications
Essential
* Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams.
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr