Volunteers

7 months ago


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

Job overview

Working in a supportive group of clinical psychologists, CBT therapists and family therapists, within the Early Intervention in Psychosis multi-disciplinary service, you'll provide CBT for psychosis (and potentially anxiety, low mood, and trauma) to service users, and can co-work to deliver family interventions.

Indirect work includes facilitating multi-disciplinary reflective practice groups and team formulation sessions, supervision, consultation, running teaching & training, and audit/research, as well as being involved in service improvement.

Main duties of the job

The main focus of the job is meeting with service users who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis, and using compassion alongside evidence based, formulation-driven CBT approaches to support recovery, and enable users to make sense of their experiences whilst feeling empowered through using CBT in daily life. There is opportunity to be involved in systemic work through the family intervention offer, as well as using other therapeutic approaches such as CFT.

Working for our organisation

Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of mental health & learning difficulty services in Sheffield, a friendly and vibrant multi-cultural city with great countryside on the door-step, and excellent links to other parts of the UK. SHSC offers a staff discount scheme, an Ethnically Diverse Staff Network, Workplace Wellbeing support, and has a Sustainability scheme in place to promote active travel of environmentally kind varieties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidates will be highly valued by the Early Intervention in psychosis colleagues, and service users and their families, in providing high quality, formulation-driven CBT with the aim of reducing distress and assisting people in their recovery. Indirect work including supervision, consultation, & service improvement is also a key part of the role.

See job description for further details.

Person specification

Training & qualifications

Essential criteria

Qualification: either completed BABCP accredited CBT post-graduate Diploma, or completed a Doctoral in Clinical Psychology 3 year training in UK, or completion of Hi-IAPT training course leading to qualification as CBT psychotherapist, and ability to work towards accreditation with the BABCP. OR have completed a BACP accredited Doctorate in Counselling Psychology in the UK, and are registered, or eligible to register by March 2022.

Experience

Essential criteria

•Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, in patient settings, and community teams. •Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties, including psychosis, bipolar, complex post-traumatic experiences, and personality difficulties •Demonstrable evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams and possessing good professional interpersonal skills.

Desirable criteria

Demonstrates knowledge about how structural racism affects peoples' lives.

Skills & knowledge

Essential criteria

•Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration •Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS •Ability to exercise judgement when presented with complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options

Other

Essential criteria

Willingness and ability to attend further training in CBT for psychosis. •Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload •Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice •Ability to exercise judgement when presented with complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options

We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access. Please think about your personal values and how these align with our values when you are applying. Find out more about our organisation through our website.

We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. When you apply you will have the opportunity to let us know if you require adjustments to be made, please contact us if you are not sure or if you require adjustments to the application process itself.

Our six staff network groups welcome new members, these are:

The Ethnically Diverse Staff Network Group The Disability Staff Network Group The Lived Experience Staff Network Group The Rainbow Staff Network Group The Staff Carers Staff Network Group The Women’s Staff Network Group

We know how important flexible working can be to applicants and therefore we encourage you to discuss any working arrangements as part of this process. We will always aim to accommodate requests, wherever possible.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role. The cost of the DBS check (currently up to £48.23) must be met by the successful applicant(s).


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