Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Sheffield Children's

Description

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 8b Clinical Psychologist to join our busy CAMHS Eating Disorders Team.

This is a new role in the team and demonstrates Sheffield Children's Hospital Foundation Trust's commitment to continue to supporting and developing the Sheffield Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Team (SEDATT)

In this post you'll be an important part of the SEDATT leadership team working together to provide a high quality service to the children and families we see.

You'll be working with this dynamic multi disciplinary team including Psychology, Family Therapy, Cognitive Therapist, mental Health and Paediatric Nurses, Dietician, Psychiatrists and Paediatrician.

You'll be contributing to service development, including supporting staff through training, consultation and supervision. You will be liaising closely with our colleagues on the acute hospital site and in our other partner agencies.

This is a large group including Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists, CBT therapists, Child Psychotherapists, Art, Drama and Music therapists, Assistant Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists, Child Well Being Practitioners and Mental Health Education Support Workers.

PS work into community, specialist and in patient CAMHS and into our large Paediatric Service.

To provide a qualified specialist Clinical Psychology service to children, young people and their families referred to SEDATT at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

Including the provision of specialist reports, formulation, consultation, supervision and training on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and professional and non-professional carers.

To join the Senior Leadership the SEDATT to ensure the effective running of the service.
To propose and implement policy changes within the specialist area served.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

Sheffield Children's is one of three independent, specialist paediatric hospitals in the country, providing dedicated healthcare for children and young people across community, mental health and acute specialist settings.

We have three overarching aims that set the direction for the Trust in our vision "to create a healthier future for children and young people.

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Outstanding patient care
Leader in children's health

generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme and access to salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and lease cars.

We are committed to supporting colleagues from different heritages and lifestyles while at work.

This is supported through the offer we have in place for flexible working and the three equality network groups we have in place.

Colleagues are encouraged to join these groups and request flexible working.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological & neuro-psychological 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.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the formulation and implementation of plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems in the context of the family and the wider system, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

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 clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To ensure that all those involved in the clients case have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

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

To coordinate, where appropriate, intervention plans in respect of children and young people, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, 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 clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and, multi-disciplinary care.

To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by team members.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development
To work within the Leadership team to offer a high quality, responsive and accessible service.

To be responsible for managing the psychological resources available to the team, whether in the form of other qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials used in the assessment and treatment of children and families.

To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, retention and wellbeing.
Teaching, training, and supervision

To provide clinical placements for trainee Clinical Psychologists, ensure that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.

To gain highly specialised/extended expertise in particular psychological approaches and/or with particular client groups and/or in management through further specialist supervision and experience supported by a programme of professional development as identified in an agreed personal development plan.

To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to other qualified clinical psychologists within the Psychological Services.

To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other professionals for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning.

To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate.
To maintain and develop skills in the area of pre-and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

To take the lead in the evaluation, monitoring and development of aspects of the teams clinical practice, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.

To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.

To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.

To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.

To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service.

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

It is a requirement of the post that the post-holder must maintain registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist (or other agreed domain title as appropriate) and to maintain this registration at all times.

The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

This will support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology

Further specialist training & supervision in specific psychological approaches and with specific client groups supported by a programme of professional development as identified in an agreed personal development plan.

Further post-doctoral training, supervision and experience in the specific area of service
Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with Health Professions Council (or other domain title as agreed)
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Further training in systemic practice
Further training in treatment of eating disorders
Further training in assessment/diagnosis of neuro divergent presentations.
Further training in leadership

Assessed experience and competencies normally acquired through working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of four years with 2 years at a specialist level and including significant experience in services for children with mental health, health and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties.

in particular children of pre-school, primary school age and adolescents, as well as work with family groups and adults, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse
Specific experience and competencies in child clinical psychology

Experience of delivering and/or supervising child and family presentations across a range of sectors- including (a) CAMHS, (b) physical health/paediatrics, (c) child development, (d) learning disabilities, (e) neuropsychology, (f) social services/child protection, (g) pre-school/early years, (h) adolescence, (I) forensic, (j) primary care and community development.

Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.

Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Experience of representing a psychological perspective within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of children with highly complex needs
Experience of assessing and treating clients across a range of care settings
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children of all ages, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

ls in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups

Doctoral level knowledge and or equivalent of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology.

Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., eating disorder, dual diagnoses, child protection, chronic or terminal illness, severely challenging behaviours etc.)
family therapy, cognitive therapy, psychotherapy etc.) ommitment and competencies in multi-disciplinary and multi agency working.
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings

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.

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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