Educational Psychologist à Grande-Bretagne

Employer Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Location Sheffield, United Kingdom

Salary Competitive

Closing date 12 Apr 2025

Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist to join the Long-Term Neurological Conditions Unit (LTNC) and community Stroke services in Sheffield. LTNC incorporates three services for adults with neurological conditions, including progressive conditions, acquired brain injury and case management. Sheffield stroke services incorporate inpatient and community rehabilitation services.
This role will be split across these two areas, offering great opportunities for working with people experiencing a range of neurological conditions. You will be working as part of well established, supportive teams, with other clinical psychologists, trainees, assistant psychologists and wider MDT.
This post provides a great opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in neuropsychology, including direct clinical work and service development activity. The work will be varied and dynamic, allowing for professional development. There will be opportunity for supervision by a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist on the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and other psychologists with specialist training in neuropsychology.
As part of the Older Adult and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a neuropsychologically informed clinical psychology service to patients with stroke, long-term neurological conditions and their families/ carers in the community (clinic base, own homes, care or nursing homes) requiring frequent travel.
• To work collaboratively with LTNC and stroke MDT's and other agencies/ networks in the delivery of a stepped model of care for cognitive, emotional/ psychological and behavioural difficulties in the context of stroke, brain injury and neurological conditions. This will involve significant provision of consultation, advice, training and supervision.
• To lead on and participate in various service development and quality improvement projects.

Person Specification

Skills and knowledge
Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological/therapeutic assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (eg SPSS) (Clinical/Counselling Psychologists only).
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC/BABCP (or equivalent body for your profession).

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups (older adults, stroke, brain injury, neurological conditions).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation.

Training & Qualifications
Essential

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS (or equivalent for your profession).
• Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.

Desirable

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

Experience
Essential

• Significant experience of specialist psychological/therapeutic assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including inpatient wards, community, primary care and outpatient settings.
• Ability 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.
• 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, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse (dependent on length of time since qualifying).
• Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams.

Desirable

• Experience of working with people with stroke, ABI, and other neurological conditions.
• Experience of teaching and/or training.
• Experience of providing supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology/therapy in different cultural contexts.

Other
Essential

• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and that of others.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials including Powerpoint suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice and to contribute to that of others.
• Ability to deal with exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
• Ability to maintain intense concentration on a frequent basis.
• Ability to exercise judgement when presented with highly complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• The role is based in Sheffield and involves travel across the city; a valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business use is needed due to the nature of the role.

Desirable

• Experience 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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details
Employer name
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Michael Carlisle Centre, Osborne Road, Sheffield, S119BF