Senior Clinical Psychologist

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join our Specialist Community Learning Disability Service (SCLDS). You will provide assessment, formulation, and talking therapies to adults with learning disabilities. You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and receive excellent supervision and support. You will provide consultancy and workshops on topics such as mental health, positive behaviour support, dementia, or autism to families and providers.

Our aim is to provide high quality, strengths-based, trauma-informed, person-centred care which enhances the lives of adults with learning disabilities.

The main duties of the job will be to provide psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions for adults who have mental health difficulties and/or behaviours of concern. You will work with the person, their family, and their carers to develop person-centred care plans designed to improve quality of life. Direct work will include offering adapted talking therapies (e.g., adapted CBT, CAT, or CFT) designed to reduce psychological distress and increase coping strategies and quality of life. You will also offer staff or family workshops to help support the 'team around the person' better understand and respond to their needs.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide a specialist Clinical Psychology service to clients referred to the service from all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy while offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
2. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

General requirements

• To work within a large multi-disciplinary team alongside colleagues in Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy, Community Nursing, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, and Business Support.
• To support service level leadership in identified areas (e.g., specific clinical pathways).
• To supervise junior colleagues and trainee clinical psychologists.
• To liaise and work closely with colleagues regarding specific clients who have mental health problems and/or distressed behaviours of concern.
• To provide frequent assessment and intervention within a variety of care settings, e.g., residential care homes for people with learning disabilities, day centres, and supported living.

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. 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 are 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the HCPC/BPS.
• Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.

Experience

Essential

• 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.
• Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties.
• Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams.

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.