Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
NHS Jobs Sheffield
Senior Clinical Psychologist in Long-term Neurological Conditions (LTNC) 1.0wte Band 8a Reports to: Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist in LTNC Accountable to: Head of Older Adults and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department, Sheffield Health & Social Care Foundation Trust (SHSC) Bases: LTNC Upperthorpe, Albert Terrace Road, Sheffield, S6 3EB; and LTNC Michael Carlisle Centre, 75 Osborne Road, Sheffield, S11 9BF.
Liaises with: Other members of LTNC, OA&NC service, and other agencies responsible for a service users care. Responsible for: Regular supervision of qualified health professionals, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and potentially Assistant Psychologists and qualified Clinical Psychologists (dependent on experience).
Job purpose To provide a highly specialist, neuropsychological service to the clients of the LTNC teams, requiring frequent travel. To work collaboratively with LTNC MDT's, neuro case managers, and other agencies in the delivery of a stepped model of care for cognitive, emotional/psychological, and behavioural difficulties in the context of brain injury/ neurological conditions.
This will involve significant provision of consultation, advice, training, and supervision. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals, as required. The postholder is responsible for the allocation of clinical work to less experienced psychologists/therapists, counsellors, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals.
To lead on service development and quality improvement projects, 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.
General requirements To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post-holders professional and service manager(s).
To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical neuropsychology and related disciplines.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC, BABCP, BPS and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues. To attend and contribute to relevant professional meetings. To develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues within SHSC and in the statutory and voluntary services with the aim of promoting high standards of care and clinical practice.
To maintain professional registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council. Working environment To provide psychological care to service users with LTNCs and their families/ carers in the least restrictive and least stigmatising environment, in a wide range of settings including nursing and care homes, outpatient and community settings, as well as clients homes.
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/neuropsychological 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/ neuropsychological 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.
Teaching, Training and Supervision To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice (HCPC), BPS and Trust guidelines To provide supervision to other MDT staff psychological work, as appropriate. To provide supervision and placements for trainee clinical psychologists.
To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists, assistant(s), or other professionals as appropriate to level of experience. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology.
To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff (including both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings. Management, Recruitment, Policy, Organisational and Service Development To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of aspects of the teams clinical practice through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within their own team by developing and collecting relevant measures of outcome and audit and to provide consultation to other health and social care professionals to enable them to develop their own effective systems of governance.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists/ qualified psychologists.
To manage the work of assistant psychologists within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures (dependent on experience and qualification). To manage any waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases taking into account skill mix and caseload.
To respond to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making. To implement the policies and propose changes to working practices/procedures concerning professional good practice for the provision of psychological services as applicable in order to ensure the highest standards of service to the service user group.
To propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity by participation in Trust working parties and other local development groups. Research and Service Evaluation To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. To supervise DClinPsy research projects (clinical psychologist only) To supervise the research activities of assistant psychologists (dependent on experience).
Liaises with: Other members of LTNC, OA&NC service, and other agencies responsible for a service users care. Responsible for: Regular supervision of qualified health professionals, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and potentially Assistant Psychologists and qualified Clinical Psychologists (dependent on experience).
Job purpose To provide a highly specialist, neuropsychological service to the clients of the LTNC teams, requiring frequent travel. To work collaboratively with LTNC MDT's, neuro case managers, and other agencies in the delivery of a stepped model of care for cognitive, emotional/psychological, and behavioural difficulties in the context of brain injury/ neurological conditions.
This will involve significant provision of consultation, advice, training, and supervision. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals, as required. The postholder is responsible for the allocation of clinical work to less experienced psychologists/therapists, counsellors, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals.
To lead on service development and quality improvement projects, 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.
General requirements To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post-holders professional and service manager(s).
To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical neuropsychology and related disciplines.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC, BABCP, BPS and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues. To attend and contribute to relevant professional meetings. To develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues within SHSC and in the statutory and voluntary services with the aim of promoting high standards of care and clinical practice.
To maintain professional registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council. Working environment To provide psychological care to service users with LTNCs and their families/ carers in the least restrictive and least stigmatising environment, in a wide range of settings including nursing and care homes, outpatient and community settings, as well as clients homes.
The job role will involve working alone in situations where there may be some risk of verbal or physical aggression from service users, carers, and the general public. Principal duties Clinical To provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments of service users referred to LTNC 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/neuropsychological 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 neuropsychological problems. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological/neuropsychological interventions for individuals, carers, families 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 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/neuropsychological 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/ neuropsychological 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.
Teaching, Training and Supervision To receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with professional practice (HCPC), BPS and Trust guidelines To provide supervision to other MDT staff psychological work, as appropriate. To provide supervision and placements for trainee clinical psychologists.
To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists, assistant(s), or other professionals as appropriate to level of experience. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology.
To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff (including both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings. Management, Recruitment, Policy, Organisational and Service Development To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of aspects of the teams clinical practice through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within their own team by developing and collecting relevant measures of outcome and audit and to provide consultation to other health and social care professionals to enable them to develop their own effective systems of governance.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists/ qualified psychologists.
To manage the work of assistant psychologists within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures (dependent on experience and qualification). To manage any waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases taking into account skill mix and caseload.
To respond to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making. To implement the policies and propose changes to working practices/procedures concerning professional good practice for the provision of psychological services as applicable in order to ensure the highest standards of service to the service user group.
To propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity by participation in Trust working parties and other local development groups. Research and Service Evaluation To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. To supervise DClinPsy research projects (clinical psychologist only) To supervise the research activities of assistant psychologists (dependent on experience).
To initiate, undertake and supervise project management, service evaluations and complex audits with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision. To disseminate research findings through publications and conference presentations.
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist to join Long-Term Neurological Conditions (LTNC) in Sheffield.
LTNC is a trio of community teams for adults. The Neurological Enablement Service (NES) works...
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