Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area Principal Clinical Psychologist / Psychotherapist / CBT Practitioner / Counselling Psychologist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (May work flexible hours.) Job ref 457-24-6826885-A
Site Longley Centre, Northern General Hospital Town Sheffield Salary £62,215 - £72,293 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/03/2025 23:59
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. These are: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.
Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the leadership team in our Home Treatment service in Sheffield. The team works with a range of partner agencies, including GP’s and VCSE organisations, to deliver interventions and treatment to people with a range of mental health difficulties in crisis including those with serious mental illness with a focus on reducing risk and avoiding hospital admission. The successful candidate will join a large team of supportive multi-professionals alongside clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and clinical associate psychologists within the acute and inpatient psychology team.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has experience of working into clinical, operational and leadership roles. There are ongoing opportunities in the service to shape the psychology clinical pathway and the successful applicant will be actively involved in service development. The role will involve the co–ordination and organisation of the work of psychologists/ psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team to provide high quality psychologically-based care and treatment. The post holder will maintain a clinical caseload, provide clinical supervision, reflective practice and debrief and will actively work with other clinical leads in the service. The psychology team is research active and has close links with Sheffield University.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership and operational management for the Psychology team within the Home Treatment and urgent and crisis service in Sheffield.
To provide clinical supervision and line management to psychologists/psychotherapists, clinical associate psychologists, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, assistant(s), trainee(s) and other professionals (where required). You will be responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice and the co–ordination and organisation of the work of your team.
You will support the team to monitor waiting lists and will support the co-ordination of resources available to the team by responding to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making. You will also utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To deliver psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions in-line with evidence-based practice, though keeping client need at the heart of the work and offer highly specialised advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care.
To advise on and support the management of demand and capacity within the service.
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To lead on psychological care pathways development, using best evidence and co-production to create effective, well received, trauma informed patient pathways through the service along with the rest of the leadership team.
To line manage (including supervising and performance managing the work of) psychological staff within the framework of the team / service’s policies and procedures.
To provide highly specialist assessments, formulations and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/ psychotherapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a trauma informed, 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.
To significantly contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of aspects of the team’s clinical practice through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To co-ordinate the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team by developing and collecting relevant measures of outcome and audit, and to provide consultation to other health and social care professionals to enable them to develop their own effective systems of governance.
To significantly contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of all psychological aspects of operational development in collaboration with the senior operational leads and Consultant Psychologist.
To propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity by participation in Service/ Trust working parties and other local development groups.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
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Person specification
* Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
* Training and qualifications in evidence based assessment and intervention
* Additional, post-qualification short courses.
* Leadership or management training relevant to health and social care settings
Experience
* Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Significant evidence of being able to effectively lead and manage multidisciplinary teams
* Experience of providing clinical supervision
* Evidence of leading quality improvement initiatives
* Evidence of line management of other psychological staff
* Experience of representing therapeutic/psychological work within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
Theory
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic/psychological therapies for people with SMI
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. Please think about your personal values and how these align with our values when you are applying.
We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. When you apply you will have the opportunity to let us know if you require adjustments to be made, please contact us if you are not sure or if you require adjustments to the application process itself.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role. The cost of the DBS check (currently up to £48.23) must be met by the successful applicant(s).
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