Psychological Practitioner / Senior Counsellor

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide qualified brief psychological therapies to WWB service users specifically to offer individual support and group facilitation

Provide psychological support for groups of staff via psychological debriefing and psycho-educational support

Provides psychological support to individuals and groups who come from backgrounds that might find it hard to access this kind of support e.g. ethnically diverse backgrounds, working in-patient settings or from non-professional backgrounds

Manages all aspects of the appointments and waiting list system, including decisions around prioritising clients, in conjunction with their WWB Professional Lead.

Provides an initial assessment, including risk assessment, and offers appropriate psychological intervention or facilitates referral on to more appropriate interventions.

Offers professional advice and support to individuals and others around all aspects of psychological therapy and WWB.

To respond appropriately to requests for consultation, psycho-educational and groupwork.

Works autonomously within professional guidelines and the WWB and SHSC Policies and Procedures.

Maintains client records appropriately via the WWB electronic records system.

Implements service evaluation and quality management initiatives which aim to improve the quality and accessibility of WWB.

Uses appropriate skills for service evaluation and development when required.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

To provide psychological support for staff and groups of staff from NHS staff

To provide psychological support to individuals and groups who come from backgrounds that might find it hard to access this kind of support e.g. ethnically diverse backgrounds, working in-patient settings or non professional backgrounds

To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users who self refer to Workplace Wellbeing, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations.

To formulate 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 work on a daily basis in face to face individual and/or group therapy settings with service users presenting with complex and distressing psychological problems.

Person Specification

Appropriate Professional Qualification

Essential

• appropriate qualification

Experience of brief psychological interventions

Essential

• experience of working across presentations and modalities

Desirable

• working with staff based dilemmas

Experience of groupwork and consultation

Essential

• experience of facilitating potentially emotionally demanding groups

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any 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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wilkinson Street

30 Wilkinson Street

Sheffield

S10 2GB

Employer's website

https://www.shsc.nhs.uk/working-us (Opens in a new tab)