Senior Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist with relevant experience to join our Home Treatment service in Sheffield.  The teams work with a range of partner agencies, including GP’s and VCSE organisations, to deliver interventions and treatment to people with a range of mental health difficulties in crisis including those with serious mental illness with a focus on reducing risk and avoiding hospital admission. The successful candidate will join a large team of supportive multi-professionals alongside  clinical and forensic psychologists, psychotherapists and clinical associate psychologists within the acute, crisis and inpatient psychology team.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has experience of supporting people at risk of hospital admission to receive specialist care at home. There are ongoing opportunities in the service to shape the psychology clinical pathway and the successful applicant will be actively involved in ‘Home First’ development. The post holder will maintain a clinical caseload, provide clinical supervision, reflective practice and debrief for staff and will actively work with the other psychology lead to deliver a highly specialist service. The psychology team is research active and has close links with Sheffield University.

Candidates seeking a development opportunity at 'Band 7' will also be considered.

Main duties of the job

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments  based 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 person’s care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s problems.

To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.

To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.

To contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service.

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 provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists/therapists, counsellors, clinical associates, assistant(s), or other professionals.

To contribute to the development, research, service evaluation and audit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for a full description of the role duties and person specification.