About this role
Job summary
We are seeking a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist to join the Specialist Psychotherapy Service, Personality/Complex Trauma team a 0.8wte (30hours per week) permanent contract. We are aiming to recruit someone who has experience of providing psychotherapeutic interventions for people with complex emotional needs and experiences of complex trauma.
You will join a friendly team of Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists from a range of clinical backgrounds, offering a variety of medium to long-term, time-limited therapies, including Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing, Psychodynamic psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis.
The Personality/Complex Trauma team provides a specialist psychotherapy service for people with complex emotional needs who may have experienced trauma. We are not a diagnostically led service, but some people who use our service have a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder/Borderline Personality Disorder; many people have difficulties with emotional regulation and their sense of self, sometimes leading to interpersonal difficulties and/or self-harm.
Main duties of the job
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, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
To work on a daily basis in face to face individual and/or in 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 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, family or 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.
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 are very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see job description and personal specification for full details.
To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/psychotherapists 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.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice HCPC, BPS/BABCP/RCN or other accrediting organisation as required e.g. ACAT and Trust guidelines.
To provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
To provide supervision for trainee psychological therapists/clinical psychologists, as appropriate.
To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists/psychotherapists, counsellors, assistant(s), or other professionals, as appropriate.
To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychotherapy/clinical psychology, as appropriate.
To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff (including psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings, as appropriate.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications Essential
Either Doctorate in Clin Psych plus HCPC reg OR post grad dip/NHS model plus accreditation
Desirable
Qualification in another recognised NHS psychotherapy model such as DBT, EMDR, CAT, CBT for Personality Disorder or Psychodynamic
Experience Essential
Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users who experience difficulties associated with a diagnosis of personality disorder/complex trauma.
Desirable
Experience of MDT working
Skills Essential
Working with people who at risk of harm to themselves and enact complex interpersonal dynamics
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address Fitzwilliam Centre
143-145 Fitzwilliam Street
Sheffield,
S1 4JP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)