Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist Sheffield, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity have arisen within the Rehabilitation and Recovery Pathway to work across 2 services (inpatient and community):
Forest Close is an inpatient rehabilitation servicewho support adults with enduring and complex mental health needs to recover meaningful lives, work towards more independence, and rebuild their ability and confidence to live in the community. We are an experienced and large multi-disciplinary team who deliver least-restrictive, evidence-based care and work to continuously improve our service. We feel passionate about working collaboratively with services users and their families, and other care providers to ensure people experience smooth and timely transition from inpatient care. We have won national awards in recognition of our positive practice in mental health.
Community Enhancing Recovery Teamis a pioneering service developed to provide high quality care for services users with multiple complex needs, in the community, and to minimise the need for out-of-area inpatient rehabilitation placements. CERT work in partnership with South Yorkshire Housing Association to provide bespoke and wrap around support for service users, to work towards greater independence. Service users are supported to build links with local community services. CERT is working towards accreditations with the RCPSYCH community rehabilitation standards and is taking a central role in developing standards of trauma informed working within SHSC.
We are looking for a suitably qualified psychologist/therapist who is passionate about a multi-disciplinary approach to supporting a diverse group of service users. We support service users with significant levels of trauma and distress, using a positive approach to managing risk. Psychology roles are highly valued within these rehabilitation services. The successful applicant will work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to develop a collaborative approach to service user engagement and support. They will share psychological formulations and interventions to enhance a trauma informed approach to team working, and service delivery, under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist. The successful candidate will be registered with the Health Professions Council and provide supervision for both clinical associate and assistant psychologists across the rehabilitation pathway. There will also be regular opportunities to provide teaching and training across this pathway.
You will benefit from being part of a thriving Adult Mental Health (AMH) clinical psychology grouping of around 60 people which in turn is part of Wider MDT Psychological Services across Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust.Peer support, clinical supervision, and line management are offered through the AMH Division. We also benefit from strong links with the Sheffield DClinPsy training course, offering teaching, mentoring, and placements.
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.
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology/psychological therapy service to service users of the Community Enhancing Recovery Team and/or Forest Close Inpatient Rehabilitation Service.
To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and recovery interventions, at the same time as offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers.
In common with all Clinical Psychologists/Psychological Therapists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice.
To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists/therapists, Clinical associate psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals, as required.
The postholder is responsible for the allocation of clinical work within their own team to less experienced psychologists/therapists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals.
To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC and BPS policies/guidelines/standards.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.
General requirements
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post-holder’s professional and service manager(s).
To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology/psychological therapy across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology/psychological therapy and related disciplines.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC, BPS and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues.
To attend and contribute to relevant professional meetings.
To develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues within Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and in the statutory and voluntary services with the aim of promoting high standards of care and clinical practice.
To maintain professional registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users at the Community Enhancing Recovery Team, 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 in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems including psychosis, complex trauma, PTSD.
To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the team 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 and treatment 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.
