Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join their leadership team in Sheffield. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the psychology clinical pathway and engage in service development, while providing high-quality psychological care to individuals in crisis. You will work alongside a diverse team of professionals, ensuring that client needs are prioritized and effectively managed. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health care, this position offers an exciting challenge with ongoing training and development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC.
• Significant experience in psychological assessment and treatment across various settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead on psychological care pathways development and provide clinical supervision.
• Coordinate the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.

Skills

Psychological Assessment

Clinical Supervision

Leadership

Evidence-Based Practice

Multidisciplinary Team Management

Education

Doctoral Level Training in Clinical Psychology

Formal Training in Supervision

Job description

Job summary

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 willsupport 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.

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.

Job description

Job 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 / services policies and procedures.

To provide highly specialist assessments, formulations 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 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 teams 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 inService/ 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.

(see job description for full details)

Job description
Job 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 / services policies and procedures.

To provide highly specialist assessments, formulations 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 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 teams 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 inService/ 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.

(see job description for full details)

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• 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.
• 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

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic/psychological therapies for people with SMI

Person Specification
Essential

Essential

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• 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.
• 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

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic/psychological therapies for people with SMI

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

Additional information
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

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Longley Centre, Northern General Hospital

Herries Road

Sheffield

S5 7AU

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