This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the Rotherham Stroke Psychology Team. We are a small and dedicated team of Clinical Psychologists working into the Rotherham Stroke Services, and alongside the Clinical Health Psychology Service in Rotherham Hospital. We have strong links with the Sheffield DClinPsy training course and regularly have trainees on placement. We are committed to MDT working and promoting psychological care in all aspects of stroke recovery through direct working, staff support and consultancy.

You will be based at Rotherham hospital and work as part of an MDT into the Acute Stroke Unit and Community settings to provide assessment, formulation and interventions to people who have experienced a stroke. There will also be opportunities for you to provide consultancy, supervision, teaching and training to staff teams.

You will receive excellent supervision and support from the team and as an employee of Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, you will be part of the wider Clinical Psychology workforce.

We are a welcoming and supportive team and committed to meeting the needs of our service users.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified specialist psychological practice to the clients of the stroke tea. To provide a Clinical Psychology service to stroke survivors during their acute admission and following discharge (within their homes or other community settings) requiring frequent travel.

To work collaboratively with the stroke MDT in the delivery of a stepped model of care for both cognitive and emotional difficulties post stroke, involving significant role in consultation, advice and supervision.

To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant psychologists and other professionals.

To lead on different service development projects and developments, utilising research skills.

To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC and BPS policies/guidelines/standards (or equivalent professional bodies).

About us

At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job description Job responsibilities

To provide specialist psychological/therapeutic assessments of service users referred to the stroke service pathways based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the persons care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological/therapeutic treatment and/or management of a service users problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.

To work on a daily basis in online, face to face, individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex acute and distressing psychological problems.

To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological/therapeutic interventions for individuals and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.

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 or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To provide highly specialist psychological/therapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.

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

To coordinate, where appropriate, complex intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, 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 service users under their care and to monitor progress during both the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Desirable

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

Knowledge Essential

• 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.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups relevant to stroke(older adults, stroke, brain injury, neurological conditions)

Experience Essential

• Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams

Desirable

• Experience of teaching and/or training

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• 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 Working together for service users Respect & kindness Everyone counts Commitment to quality Improving lives 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 teaching and/or training
• Experience of providing supervision
• Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology/therapy in different cultural contexts.

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)
• 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 relevant to stroke(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

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rotherham General Hospital

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

S60 2UD

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