Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the teams. Based upon the appropriate use, interpretations and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

2. 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.

3. To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with complex and distressing psychological and neuropsychological problems, including problems associated with acquired brain injury, stroke, post traumatic stress, recovery and adjustment.

4. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.

5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.

8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a 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.

9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

10. To coordinate, where appropriate, the intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.

11. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users, under their care and to monitor progress during both the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Teaching, training, and supervision

1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice HCPC / NMC, BPS / BABCP & Trust guidelines.

2. To gain wider post-qualification knowledge, skills and experience through further experience and specialist supervision in specific psychological approaches and/or with particular service user groups supported by case presentations, group supervision and short courses as part of an agreed personal development plan. This may include gaining wider post-qualification experience of clinical psychology over and above that provided within the principal area where the post-holder is employed, up to two sessions per week (pro rata).

3. To provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.

4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant psychologists where appropriate.

5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.

6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff (including both psychologists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

7. Clinical Psychologists to attend supervisor training in preparation for becoming a supervisor for the DClinPsy Training Courses.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

3. To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, where appropriate, within the framework of the team / services policies and procedures.

4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of assistant psychologists.

5. To implement the policies and propose changes to working practices/procedures concerning professional good practice for the provision of psychological/therapy services as applicable to the service in order to ensure the highest standards of service to the service user group.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC or as CBT therapist with BABCP.

Experience

Essential

• 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.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.

Desirable

• Experience of working within multidisciplinary settings.

Knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups relevant to stroke(older adults, stroke, brain injury, neurological conditions)

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

multiple sites

dependent on service

Sheffield

S2 7EA

Employer's website

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