Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
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 development of the 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, other relevant areas.
Main duties of the job
* 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.
* 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.
* To offer supervision to other roles (including Trainee Psychologists) appropriate to banding.
* To lead on different service development projects and developments, including work in the pathway towards around the new National Stroke Service model.
Job responsibilities
* To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Rotherham Stroke Service, 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.
* To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment 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.
* 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, which might occur following stroke, e.g. depression, anxiety, PTSD.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological 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.
* 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.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
* To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
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.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (eg SPSS).
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups (e.g. physical health co-morbidities, neurological impairment).
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation.
Training and qualifications
* 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.
* Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology/psychological therapy.
* Additional, post-qualification short courses.
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 in patient settings.
* Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive.
* Experience of working therapeutically with stroke patients within a community rehabilitation setting and within a community stroke rehabilitation inpatient setting, and with their families and carers; working within stroke MDTs.
* Experience of neuropsychological assessment, formulation and intervention with people post stroke.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams.
* Demonstrates further training/experience normally through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist/psychological therapist.
* Experience of teaching and/or training.
* Experience of providing supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
Other
* Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and that of others.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials including Powerpoint suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice and to contribute to that of others.
* Ability to deal with exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
* Ability to maintain intense concentration on a frequent basis.
* Ability to exercise judgement when presented with highly complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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