Main area Stroke Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent, 0.8 wte
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week (May be opportunity for temporary additional hours for interested candidates)
Job ref: 457-24-6770886-A
Site: Michael Carlisle Centre
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 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. 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. 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 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.
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 Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists) appropriate to banding.
4. To lead on different service development projects and developments, including work in the pathway towards around 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, 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person specification
Knowledge and skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological / therapeutic assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well-developed high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
Training and qualifications
* Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
* 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 across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of working therapeutically with stroke patients within a community rehabilitation setting.
* Experience of neuropsychological assessment, formulation, and intervention with people post-stroke.
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 applying for this post you will be redirected to complete your application in our preferred applicant management system, Trac.
For further information, please contact Dr Jo Hawker (Principal Clinical Psychologist) at jo.hawker@shsc.nhs.uk or 0114 2263155.
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