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Clinical Psychologist

Employer
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Sheffield
Salary
£41,659 to £47,672 a year per annum pro rata if part time
Closing date
19 Jun 2023

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Profession
Mental health, Psychologist
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
This is an exciting opportunity to work with an innovative psychology led multi-agency team to provide mental health support to children and young people in and around their educational setting in line with the government green paper and NHSE long term plan.

The Senior School Link will hold regular review meetings with the Senior Mental Health Lead in school to support them to further develop their whole school emotional wellbeing and trauma informed offer providing school based care plans to support the most vulnerable children and young people coordinating and supporting direct work with children and young people with the EMHPs offering consultation, training, reflective practice to school staff and MHST staff and EMHP case management supervision.

Regular line management and clinical supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist will be available alongside peer supervision with multi-agency colleagues. Post holders will be expected to attend a one year post graduate course in EMHP supervision course with the University of Sheffield and further training will be available.

The post will best fit someone interested in community-based work, who is able to apply their psychological knowledge to an educational context and who can manage to be both responsive and innovative alongside being clear about service boundaries and evidence based, theory led practice.

Main duties of the job

Key tasks will include:
  • Supporting the Senior Mental Health Lead within school through regular review meetings to further develop their whole school emotional wellbeing and trauma informed offer: through review, assessment, analysing survey data, report writing, and action planning consultation triage development of resources and training for school staff, children and young people and parents and carers reflective practice
  • Assessment, formulation and development of school-based care plans to support the school in being able to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and young people within school
  • Clinical supervision, training and reflective practice to the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and Assistant Psychologists within the team.
  • Service evaluation
  • Service user engagement
  • Taking a specific lead role within the service
  • Recording and reporting on activity and outcomes
  • When required to deliver group and one to one evidence based, theory informed interventions.


About us

The post holder will work within the Healthy Minds Mental Health Support Team which currently has twenty-two staff, delivered by Sheffield CAMHS as part of Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

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.
  • Outstanding patient care
  • Brilliant place to work
  • Leader in children's health

Our commitment to rewarding colleagues is demonstrated through our brilliant reward and benefits offer including 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.

We will consider applications from current Trainee Clinical Psychologists

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job description and personal specification for main responsibilities for this role.

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net

Trust Values

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:
  • Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
  • Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
  • Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
  • Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care


Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
  • Registration with HCPC as a clinical psychologist (or other domain title as agreed).
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development in Psychotherapies.


Desirable

  • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
  • GuidanceScore To be educated to MSc level or have equivalent Clinical / Managerial experience2 Postgraduate psychotherapy qualification such as PG Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, MA Art Therapy, MA Drama Therapy, MA Music Therapy, MSc Family Therapy2 Qualification in supervision of practitioners in delivering psychological interventions


Experience

Essential

  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people, and their families
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health and well being problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
  • Experience - in addition to a single training placement of clinical work with children and families with health- care needs.


Desirable

  • Experience of working with schools and / or communities
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
  • Experience of working with children and young people in a range of clinical settings.
  • Experience of working with children and families within the area of work specific to this post.
  • Experience of delivering and/or participating in reflective practice.


Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, 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.
  • Some knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
  • Experience of working with risk and knowledge of safeguarding procedures within health
  • Ability to link psychological theory to practice


Desirable

  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, eating disorders, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
  • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
  • Knowledge of working systemically with teams to promote psychological approaches.
  • Ability to link psychological theory to practice and how this can apply to educational settings


Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • An ability to apply sustained and intense concentration both within the clinical work, and in order to plan workload and liaise effectively with multiple partners.
  • An ability to interact with children, young people and school staff and their carers and families.
  • Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
  • An understanding of the role
  • Ability to self reflect


Desirable

  • Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
  • An interest in working within schools


Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Albion House

Savile Street

Sheffield

S4 7UD

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