Overview
Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist role at Sheffield Health and Social Care in the stroke psychology services based in Rotherham. This is an AfC band 7 full time role, but part time hours will be considered. We welcome newly qualified or soon to be qualified Clinical Psychologists and Psychological Therapists. Informal enquiries about the role are welcome; please see the contact details sections.
Responsibilities
* To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology/psychological therapy service to service users of Rotherham Stroke Service. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, and to offer highly specialised advice and consultation on service users\' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
* To provide regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice, and to provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) and other professionals as appropriate.
* To allocate clinical work within the team to less experienced staff, trainees and other professionals.
* To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the framework of Trust, HCPC, BPS and BABCP policies/guidelines/standards; to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
* To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing to service users\' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans; to contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care across settings and agencies.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
* To coordinate, where appropriate, complex intervention plans, initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
* To communicate information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans in a skilled and sensitive manner and to monitor progress during both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
* To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice (HCPC), BPS, BABCP and Trust guidelines.
* To provide supervision to other MDT staff psychological work, as appropriate.
* To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant psychologists where appropriate.
* To offer training placements to trainee CBT therapists.
* To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology/CBT therapy, as appropriate.
* To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff across a range of agencies and settings.
* To attend supervisor training in preparation for becoming a supervisor for the DClinPsy Training Courses.
Management, Recruitment, Policy, Organisational and Service Development
* To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of aspects of the team\'s clinical practice through research, service evaluation and audit.
* To contribute to governance of psychological practice within the team by developing and collecting relevant measures of outcome and audit and to provide consultation to other professionals to enable governance development.
* To advise service and professional management on psychological/organisational matters needing addressing.
* To manage waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in allocation of cases, prioritising based on skill mix and caseload, with autonomous professional judgement.
* To implement policies and propose changes to working practices concerning professional good practice for psychological services as applicable to The Rotherham Stroke Service to ensure high standards of service.
* To propose policy or service changes impacting beyond own area by participating in Trust working parties and local development groups.
Research and Service Evaluation
* To utilise theory and evidence-based literature to support practice and to undertake research and provide research advice to staff.
* To oversee project management, service evaluations and complex audits to help develop service provision; to disseminate findings through publications and conference presentations.
Working Environment
* To provide psychological care in the least restrictive and least stigmatising environment across inpatient wards, nursing homes, outpatient and community settings, and client homes.
* Role may involve working alone in situations with risk of verbal or physical aggression from service users, carers and the public.
Qualifications and Experience
* Essential: Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings; ability to work with complex psychological difficulties; ability to work with a wide variety of service user groups; experience in multi-disciplinary settings.
* Desirable: Teaching/training experience; experience applying psychology in different cultural contexts; knowledge of legislation.
Training and Qualifications
* Post-graduate/doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent, plus registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist; BABCP accreditation requirements or willingness to work toward BABCP accreditation for CBT; post-graduate Diploma in CBT or equivalent.
* Desirable: pre-qualification training in research methodology; additional post-qualification short courses.
Other
* Prepared to work toward BABCP accreditation; ability to plan, prioritise and organise workload; ability to teach using complex multi-media materials including PowerPoint; ability to governance and maintain own clinical practice; ability to manage exposure to distressing circumstances and maintain concentration; ability to exercise judgement with complex facts or situations.
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