Senior Clinical Psychologist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Mai 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Negotiable |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Mehefin 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Sheffield, S11 9BF |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9457-26-0154 |
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To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users at the Community Enhancing Recovery Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including historic notes, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, 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 (direct, indirect & team-based) for the formal psychological 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. To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems including psychosis, complex trauma, PTSD. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the team 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 and treatment of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists 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 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. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals. To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice. To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC, & BPS policies/guidelines/standards. 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 utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, and peer recovery workers, where appropriate, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures. To maintain professional registration as a Clinical Psychologist (practitioner psychologist) with the Health and Care Professions Council.