Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist to join the leadership team of 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.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide clinical leadership, operational management and programme development for the Home Treatment and urgent and crisis service.
* Coordinate, manage and supervise psychologists/psychotherapists, clinical associate psychologists, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, assistants, trainees and other professionals.
* Maintain a clinical caseload, provide clinical supervision, reflective practice and debriefing, and work collaboratively with other clinical leads.
* Deliver assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions, offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care.
* Advise on and support the management of demand and capacity, ensuring efficient use of resources, automatic professional judgment and multidisciplinary decision‑making.
* Use research skills for audit, policy and service development, and lead quality improvement initiatives.
Core Duties
* Lead on psychological care pathway development, using best evidence and co‑production to create trauma‑informed, effective pathways with the wider leadership team.
* Line‑manage psychological staff, including supervising and performance managing staff within the team policies and procedures.
* Provide specialist assessments, formulations and implement plans for formal psychological treatment or management across a full range of settings.
* Provide specialised psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing to service user formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
* Contribute to a trauma‑informed, psychologically based framework of understanding and care for all service users across all settings.
* Support the systematic governance of psychological practice, including developing and collecting outcome measures, audit and providing consultation to enable better governance.
* Collaborate with senior operational leads and consultant psychologists to evaluate and monitor full psychological aspects of operational development.
* Participate in Service/Trust working parties, local development groups and propose policy or service changes where appropriate.
* Use theory, evidence‑based literature and research to support evidence‑based practice both individually and in team settings.
Essential Qualifications
* Post‑graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (HCPC registration) or substantial psychotherapy training with appropriate registration.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists/psychotherapists.
* Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient.
* Evidence of effective leadership and management of multidisciplinary teams.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision and leading quality improvement initiatives.
* Evidence of line management of other psychological staff.
Desirable Qualities
* 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 in a range of assessment and treatment models.
* Experience representing therapeutic/psychological work within multidisciplinary care.
* Experience applying psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
* Ability to apply a range of formulation models to patient presenting difficulties.
Person Specification
* Well‑developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic/psychological therapies for people with serious mental illness.
Disclosure & Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a Disclosure and Barring Service check to confirm the absence of 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.
Employer Details
* Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
* Longley Centre, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU
* Website: https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/
Contract & Salary
* Contract: Permanent, Full‑time
* Place: Sheffield, National Health Service, United Kingdom (PWD)
* Pay: £62,215 – £72,293 a year, pro rata
* Working pattern: Flexible, Job share, Full‑time
* Band: 8b
Application Information
We are looking forward to receiving your application. We will not consider Applicants who are not on a public list who are applying for a non‑public contract.
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