Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist
1 day ago
Job summary
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist to join the leadership team in our Primary and Community Mental Health 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, including those with serious mental illness. The successful candidate will join a large team of supportive multi-professionals alongside a well-established group of clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and clinical associate psychologists.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has experience of working into clinical, operational and leadership roles. There are ongoing opportunities in the service to shape the psychology clinical pathway and the successful applicant will be actively involved in service development. The role will involve the co-ordination and organisation of the work of psychologists/ psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. The post holder will maintain a small clinical caseload, will provide clinical supervision and will actively work with other clinical leads in the service.
The post is supported by a further Principal Clinical Psychologist and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and is currently offered at 27 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership and operational management for the Psychology team within the Primary and Community Mental Health service in Sheffield.
To provide clinical supervision and line management to psychologists/psychotherapists, clinical associate psychologists, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, assistant(s), trainee(s) and other professionals (where required). You will be responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice and the co-ordination and organisation of the work of your team.
You willsupport the team to monitor waiting lists and will support the co-ordination of resources available to the team by responding to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making. You will also utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To deliver psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions in-line with evidence-based practice, though keeping client need at the heart of the work and offer highly specialised advice and consultation on service users' psychological care.
To advise on and support the management of demand and capacity within the service.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead on psychological care pathways development, using best evidence and co-production to create effective, well received, trauma informed patient pathways through the service along with the rest of the leadership team.
To line manage (including supervising and performance managing the work of) psychological staff within the framework of the team / services policies and procedures.
To provide highly specialist assessments, formulations and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/ psychotherapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a trauma informed, 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 significantly contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of aspects of the teams clinical practice through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To co-ordinate the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team by developing and collecting relevant measures of outcome and audit, and to provide consultation to other health and social care professionals to enable them to develop their own effective systems of governance.
To significantly contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of all psychological aspects of operational development in collaboration with the senior operational leads and Consultant Psychologist.
To propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity by participation inService/ Trust working parties and other local development groups.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
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Person Specification
Essential
Essential
Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC or Psychotherapist registration or a core mental health professionall qualification and, where required, registration and post graduate diploma qualification in therapeutic training with accreditation with relevant body. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Desirable
Training and qualifications in research methodology Additional, post-qualification short courses. Leadership or management training relevant to health and social care settings
Experience
Essential
Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Significant evidence of being able to effectively lead and manage multidisciplinary teams Experience of providing teaching and/or training Experience of providing clinical supervision Evidence of leading quality improvement initiatives Evidence of line management of other psychological staff
Desirable
Experience of representing therapeutic/psychological work within the context of multi-disciplinary care. Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural contexts. Understanding and experience of co-production
Theory
Essential
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic/psychological therapies for people with SMI
Multicultural working
Essential
multi cultural interventions, awareness of discrimination and power issues-
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