Senior Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Sheffield is seeking a motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join their Home Treatment service. The successful applicant will deliver specialized psychological assessments and interventions, providing support to individuals with mental health difficulties at home. Candidates should have a doctoral-level qualification in clinical psychology or psychotherapy, with significant relevant experience. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a vital service aimed at reducing hospital admissions.

Qualifications

• Essential: Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across various care settings.
• Desirable: Experience within multi-disciplinary care contexts.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and implement treatment plans.
• Ensure clinical supervision to other professionals.
• Contribute to the development, research, service evaluation and audit.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Psychological interventions

Clinical supervision

Education

Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Registration with the HCPC or BABCP

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist with relevant experience to join our Home Treatment service in Sheffield. The teams work 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.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has experience of supporting people at risk of hospital admission to receive specialist care at home. There are ongoing opportunities in the service to shape the psychology clinical pathway and the successful applicant will be actively involved in 'Home First' development.

Main Duties of the Job

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based on 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.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.
• To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
• To contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service.
• 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 provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists/therapists, counsellors, clinical associates, assistant(s), or other professionals.
• To contribute to the development, research, service evaluation and audit.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential: Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC or post graduate training as a psychotherapist with BABCP registration or equivalent. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists/ psychotherapists.

Desirable: Training and qualifications in evidence-based assessment and intervention. Additional, post-qualification short courses. Ability to work in a range of assessment and treatment modalities to meet patient needs.

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 inpatient settings. Evidence of leading restorative interventions for staff. Experience of providing clinical supervision. Evidence of leading clinical service improvement initiative.

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.