Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this post.

Clinical

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Rotherham Stroke Service, 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 and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the persons care.

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, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems, which might occur following stroke, e.g. depression, anxiety, PTSD, emotional lability and cognitive impairment.

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.

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

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

To provide highly 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.

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.

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.

To coordinate, where appropriate, complex 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.

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

To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice (HCPC), BPS, BABCP and Trust guidelines

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

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

To offer training placements to trainee CBT therapists

To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of Clinical Psychology/CBT therapy, as appropriate.

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

To attend supervisor training in preparation for becoming a supervisor for the DClinPsy Training Courses (Clinical Psychologists only)

Management, Recruitment, Policy, Organisational and Service Development

To 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 contribute to the governance of psychological practice within their own 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 advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

To manage any waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases taking into account skill mix and caseload. To respond to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making.

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

To propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity by participation in Trust working parties and other local development groups.

Research and Service Evaluation

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

To undertake and supervise project management, service evaluations and complex audits with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

To disseminate research findings through publications and conference presentations.

Working Environment

To provide psychological care to service users in the least restrictive and least stigmatising environment in a wide range of settings including inpatient wards, nursing homes, outpatient and community settings as well as clients homes.

The job role will involve working alone in situations where there may be some risk of verbal or physical aggression from service users, carers, and the general public.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Desirable

• oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups (relevant for stroke patients, e.g. stroke, physical health co-morbidities, neurological impairment, brain injury).

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• DClinPsy or CBT qualification or working towards completion

Desirable

• oPre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology/psychological therapy.
• oAdditional, post-qualification short courses

Experience

Essential

• oSignificant 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.
• oAbility to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive
• oExperience 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, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• oEvidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams

Desirable

• oExperience of teaching and/or training
• oExperience of the application of clinical psychology/CBT in different cultural contexts.

Other

Essential

• oAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials including Powerpoint suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• oAbility to deal with exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
• oAbility to exercise judgement when presented with highly complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options

Desirable

• oExperience of working within a multicultural framework.

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 Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rotherham General Hospital

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

S60 2UD

Employer's website

https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)