Assistant Psychologist

7 months ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are seeking an Assistant Psychologist to join the Personality/ Complex Trauma team. The team offers a city-wide and regional tertiary level service to people experiencing difficulties associated with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable/Borderline Personality Disorder and/or complex trauma.

We provide psychotherapeutic interventions, consultation and advice for service users and other teams, alongside specialist education, training and research. The team is part of the Specialist Psychotherapy Service at St Georges and has been awarded APPTS accreditation (the Accreditation Programme for Psychological Therapies Services) from the Royal College of Psychiatry.

We offer a full Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) programme alongside a range of other psychotherapy modalities with an evidence base in this area, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Psychodynamic Therapy and trauma focused approaches such as EMDR.

We are a welcoming and supportive team who are keen to develop our skill base in order that we meet the needs of our service users.

We are seeking an Assistant Psychologist who can join our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Programme; and contribute to the delivery of DBT skills groups, DBT graduate groups and a DBT 'skills for staff' initiative. We are therefore seeking someone who has prior knowledge and experience of running DBT groups (see personal specification for further details).

We are seeking someone who has enthusiasm for, and experience of working with service users with complex needs, as well as experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.

We are seeking someone who can offer one to one interventions with our service users under supervision, for example, stabilisation or behavioural activation work, or administering the Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) programme.

We are seeking someone who can aid with the collection, inputting and analysis of our service outcome measures and qualitative feedback.

We are seeking someone who can contribute to co-production initiatives, working along side our service users to develop our services.

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is a major employer and provider of services. Our Service Users, Carers and Staff are central, and our Values are important, to the delivery of high-quality care. We actively seek out individuals who share these values:
Working together for service users

Respect and kindness

Everyone counts

Commitment to quality

Improving live

**With the guidance and support of supervising staff**:
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users within the team; to provide psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the management of the senior supervising psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the Clinical Leads and Senior Supervisor and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work and the developing reporting requirements of the Team.

**Clinical**:
To assist in the coordination and running of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy groups.

To be required to work on a frequent basis with people with complex difficulties often associated with diagnoses such as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder/Borderline Personally Disorder.

To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of service users, including the use of 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 under the management and clinical supervision of the Clinical Psychologist.

To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s problems, under the management and clinical supervision of the Clinical Psychologist, in the Team.

Where required, to attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.

To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

To lead in the co-production, with service users, of initiatives such as DBT graduate groups and cross service waiting list groups.

To support the referral and assessment process under development in the Team by collating clinically relevant information in the form of notes reviews to include key information on risk, previous therapy, diagnosis/es and support clinical decision making.

Teaching, training and supervision

To receive regular management and clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of curr

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