Senior Clinical Psychologist / Senior Psychotherapist

We are seeking to recruit an Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Consultant to join the Specialist Psychotherapy Service (SPS). SPS is comprised of two sister teams: the Mood, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Psychotherapy Service and the Personality/Complex Trauma team., To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists/psychological therapists, assistant(s) and trainee(s).

To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.

In common with all Clinical Psychologists/Psychotherapists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice.

To contribute to the work of the team through regular participation in team meetings, governance, team development slots and collaboration with other senior members of the team.

To contribute to team working groups, for example, around developing our co-production strategy, inclusivity, staff well-being or outcome measures.

To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC/BPS/BABCP/RCN or other accrediting organisation as appropriate and other policies/guidelines/standards.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team.

We are aiming to recruit someone who has experience of providing medium to long term interventions for people with complex emotional needs and/or experiences of complex trauma.You'll need an enthusiasm for, and experience of working with our service users and in multidisciplinary teams.

We are looking for a Senior Psychological Therapist/Clinical Psychologist who is qualified and registered with the relevant body (Health Professions Council, NMC, BABCP, ACAT, UKCP, BPS) and as an EMDR consultant with EMDR UK.

EMDR for PTSD and cPTSD is one of our key therapeutic offers and we currently have 10 therapists within the service who require specialist EMDR supervision. We hope to recruit an EMDR consultant who can provide this supervision, whilst being embedded within the service, and also holding a small clinical caseload., 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 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.

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. We have six diverse staff network groups that welcome new members.