Senior Clinical Psychologist/Senior Psychotherapist

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Full time
Location: Sheffield
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Job offered by: NHS
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Senior Clinical Psychologist/Senior Psychotherapist

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking to recruit an Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Consultant to join the Specialist Psychotherapy Service (SPS). SPS is comprised of two sister teams: the Mood, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Psychotherapy Service and the Personality/Complex Trauma team. EMDR for PTSD and cPTSD is one of our key therapeutic offers and we currently have 10 therapists within the service who require specialist EMDR supervision. We hope to recruit an EMDR consultant who can provide this supervision, whilst being embedded within the service, and also holding a small clinical caseload. We are aiming to recruit someone who has experience of providing medium to long term interventions for people with complex emotional needs and/or experiences of complex trauma. You'll need an enthusiasm for, and experience of working with our service users and in multidisciplinary teams. We are looking for a Senior Psychological Therapist/Clinical Psychologist who is qualified and registered with the relevant body (Health Professions Council, NMC, BABCP, ACAT, UKCP, BPS) and as an EMDR consultant with EMDR UK. SPS is a tertiary level service serving people across Sheffield and beyond. We are based in the city centre, close to transport links and with car parking on site. Main duties of the job

To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists/psychological therapists, assistant(s) and trainee(s). To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy while offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users' psychological care. To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice. To contribute to the work of the team through regular participation in team meetings, governance, team development slots, and collaboration with other senior members of the team. To contribute to team working groups, for example, around developing our co-production strategy, inclusivity, staff well-being or outcome measures. To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust policies/guidelines/standards. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team. 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. What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share. 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 is 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 aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield. Job responsibilities

Clinical To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans. To provide highly specialist psychotherapy assessments to service users referred to the Team. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment/psychotherapy implementation and/or management of a service user's problems. To work on a daily basis in face-to-face individual, family and/or group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care for all users of the service. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users. To coordinate complex intervention plans, involving service users, their carers, and others in the network of care. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner regarding assessment, formulation and treatment plans. Teaching, Training and Supervision To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice. To provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate. To provide supervision for trainee psychological therapists/clinical psychologists. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychotherapy/clinical psychology. To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff working with the service user group. Person Specification

Training and qualifications

Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent. AND Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC. OR Post-graduate Diploma qualification in a therapy modality relevant to the service. AND Full accreditation and registration with the relevant professional body. AND EMDR consultant accredited with the EMDR association UK. Formal training in clinical supervision. Experience

Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to supervise work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Qualifications

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.

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