Senior Clinical Psychologist

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate clinical psychologist to join their stroke psychology services in Rotherham. This dynamic role involves providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions to stroke survivors and their families. The position offers opportunities for professional development and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, contributing to the enhancement of psychological care services. You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of stroke care, ensuring that every individual receives the highest standard of psychological support. If you are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of others, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Access to Supervision and Support

Involvement in Research Projects

Flexible Working Arrangements

Qualifications

• Must have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and HCPC registration.
• Experience in providing clinical psychology services to diverse populations.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology services to stroke survivors in various settings.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for comprehensive care delivery.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Psychological Assessment

Therapeutic Techniques

Consultation Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

HCPC Registration

Tools

Psychometric Tests

Therapeutic Frameworks

Job description

Join Sheffield Health and Social Care in Stroke Psychology Services

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 the development of a 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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 the new National Stroke Service model.

Clinical 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 person’s care.

To formulate 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 work on a daily basis in face-to-face individual, family, and/or 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.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision

To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice (HCPC), BPS, and Trust guidelines.

To provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work, as appropriate.

To provide supervision for trainee clinical psychologists.

To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists.

To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.

To provide highly specialised advice, consultation, and training to staff (including both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings.

Management, Recruitment, Policy, Organisational and Service Development

To 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 contribute to the governance of psychological practice within their own 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 advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

To manage any waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases taking into account skill mix and caseload. To respond to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making.

To implement the policies and propose changes to working practices/procedures concerning professional good practice for the provision of psychological services as applicable to The Rotherham Stroke Service in order to ensure the highest standards of service to the service user group.

To propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity by participation in Trust working parties and other local development groups.

Research and Service Evaluation

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

To supervise DClinPsy service evaluation and/or research projects.

To initiate, undertake, and supervise project management, service evaluations, and complex audits with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

To disseminate research findings through publications and conference presentations.

Working Environment

To provide psychological care to service users and their carers in the least restrictive and least stigmatising environment in a wide range of settings including inpatient wards, nursing homes, outpatient and community settings as well as clients’ homes.

The job role will involve working alone in situations where there may be some risk of verbal or physical aggression from service users, carers, and the general public.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Employer Name: Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Fulwood House, Fulwood Road, Sheffield, S103TH
Employer's Website: https://www.shsc.nhs.uk/working-us