Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist / Psychotherapist

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist to join the leadership team in our Primary and Community Mental Health service in Sheffield. The team works 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, including those with serious mental illness. The successful candidate will join a large team of supportive multi-professionals alongside a well-established group of clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and clinical associate psychologists. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has experience of working into clinical, operational and leadership roles. There are ongoing opportunities in the service to shape the psychology clinical pathway and the successful applicant will be actively involved in service development. The role will involve the co-ordination and organisation of the work of psychologists/ psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. The post holder will maintain a small clinical caseload, will provide clinical supervision and will actively work with other clinical leads in the service. The post is supported by a further Principal Clinical Psychologist and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and is currently offered at 27 hours per week., To provide clinical leadership and operational management for the Psychology team within the Primary and Community Mental Health service in Sheffield. To provide clinical supervision and line management to psychologists/psychotherapists, clinical associate psychologists, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, assistant(s), trainee(s) and other professionals (where required). You will be responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice and the co-ordination and organisation of the work of your team. You will support the team to monitor waiting lists and will support the co-ordination of resources available to the team by responding to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making. You will also utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To deliver psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions in-line with evidence-based practice, though keeping client need at the heart of the work and offer highly specialised advice and consultation on service users' psychological care. To advise on and support the management of demand and capacity within the service., To lead on psychological care pathways development, using best evidence and co-production to create effective, well received, trauma informed patient pathways through the service along with the rest of the leadership team. To line manage (including supervising and performance managing the work of) psychological staff within the framework of the team / service's policies and procedures. To provide highly specialist assessments, formulations and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment 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 provide highly specialist psychological 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 trauma informed, 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 significantly contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of aspects of the team's clinical practice through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To co-ordinate the systematic governance of psychological practice within the 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 significantly contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of all psychological aspects of operational development in collaboration with the senior operational leads and Consultant Psychologist. To propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity by participation inService/ Trust working parties and other local development groups. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. (see job description for full details) We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access. Please think about your personal values and how these align with our values when you are applying. Find out more about our organisation through our website. We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. When you apply you will have the opportunity to let us know if you require adjustments to be made, please contact us if you are not sure or if you require adjustments to the application process itself. Our six staff network groups welcome new members, these are: + The Ethnically Diverse Staff Network Group + The Disability Staff Network Group + The Lived Experience Staff Network Group + The Rainbow Staff Network Group + The Staff Carers Staff Network Group + The Women's Staff Network Group We know how important flexible working can be to applicants and therefore we encourage you to discuss any working arrangements as part of this process. We will always aim to accommodate requests, wherever possible. The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role. The cost of the DBS check (currently up to £48.23) must be met by the successful applicant(s). When applying for this post you will redirected to complete your application in our preferred applicant management system, Trac. If you are successfully offered a role, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there. 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At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city. We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of. Our values are at the heart of everything we do. These are: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives., 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 all 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.