An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Rehabilitation and Recovery Pathway at Sheffield Health & Social Care Trust. The post will require a skilled and enthusiastic clinician to join the clinical team in the inpatient rehabilitation service serving people with complex and enduring mental health difficulties. Clinical Associates in Psychology are embedded and valued members of the multidisciplinary team at Forest Close, contributing to direct and indirect care, via psychological and cognitive assessment, formulation and psychological interventions.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work with people who use our services to develop a shared understanding of the complex issues the person is facing, how they cope and the impact this has on their mental, physical health and well-being and those around them (psychological assessment and formulation). Under supervision of qualified clinical psychologists they will explore social and psychological therapies and other potential options which may improve health outcomes and help service users achieve agreed goals.

About us

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, we're looking for people who share this passion to join us.

We offer flexible working , we genuinely care about our staff we invest in you. We protect time for peer and clinical supervision. We invest in fostering cohesion and a team mentality. We are a sociable bunch of supportive, skilled clinicians that genuinely want to develop mental health care , using our autonomy, initiative, and innovative ways of working to help forge mental health care for the future.

It is important to us 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.

Forest Close is a 30 bed intensive inpatient rehabilitation service located in the north of Sheffield. We support adults with enduring and complex mental health needs to recover meaningful lives, work towards more independence, and rebuild their ability and confidence to live in the community. We are an experienced and large multi-disciplinary team and we use a whole team approach to deliver least-restrictive evidence-based care and we strive to continuously improve our service.

We have won national awards in recognition of our positive practice in mental health and are proud to be one of the first services in Sheffield to achieve the Accreditation for Inpatient Mental Health Services (AIMS) from the Royal College of Psychiatry.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Service users seen by the successful applicant will include those who have experienced longer term problems with high levels of distress presenting with complex mental health difficulties. Service users may present with a high level of risk to both themselves and sometimes to other people. Assessments and interventions will be delivered on the inpatient wards and in the community as appropriate to facilitate service users' adjustment to their discharge destination.

The successful candidate would be expected to work closely with MDT colleagues and with experts-by-experience to co-produce and co-develop services. The post holder will primarily be involved in partnership working, liaising with various stakeholders in the system, e.g. CERT, secondary care mental health services, specialist mental health teams, GPs, and primary care. The post holder will also be involved in raising the awareness of the complexity of the health and social challenges many people face and the impact this has on mental health & well-being and vice versa. A key aim of the service is to help people build resilience and feel more connected to their community, and to instil a sense of belonging.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Appropriate CAP qualification

Desirable

• Additional training

Clinical

Essential

• Experience of working with SMI
• Evidence of working with Older and working age adults

Service development

Essential

• Evidence of inputting into service development

Desirable

• Inputting into service evaluation/audit

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

FOREST CLOSE

1-4 FOREST CLOSE

Sheffield

S35 0JW

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