Senior Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

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

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 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.

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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

1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice (HCPC), BPS and Trust guidelines.
2. To provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
3. To provide supervision for trainee clinical psychologists.
4. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.
6. 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

1. To 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.
2. 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.
3. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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

1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
3. To supervise DClinPsy service evaluation and/or research projects.
4. To initiate, undertake and supervise project management, service evaluations and complex audits with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
5. To disseminate research findings through publications and conference presentations.

Working Environment

1. 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.
2. 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.

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