Job summary
- Main area
- Stroke
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 457-25-7131318-A
- Employer
- Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Michael Carlisle Centre
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
About us
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.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist to join the Long-Term Neurological Conditions Unit (LTNC) and community Stroke services in Sheffield.
LTNC incorporates three services for adults with neurological conditions, including progressive conditions, acquired brain injury and case management. Sheffield stroke services incorporate inpatient and community rehabilitation services.
This role will be split across these two areas, offering great opportunities for working with people experiencing a range of neurological conditions. You will be working as part of well established, supportive teams, with other clinical psychologists, trainees, assistant psychologists and wider MDT.
This post provides a great opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in neuropsychology, including direct clinical work and service development activity. The work will be varied and dynamic, allowing for professional development. There will be opportunity for supervision by a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist on the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and other psychologists with specialist training in neuropsychology
As part of the Older Adult and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership (see below for further information).
Main duties of the job
- To provide a neuropsychologically informed clinical psychology service to patients with stroke, long-term neurological conditions and their families/ carers in the community (clinic base, own homes, care or nursing homes) requiring frequent travel.
- To work collaboratively with LTNC and stroke MDT’s and other agencies/ networks in the delivery of a stepped model of care for cognitive, emotional/ psychological and behavioural difficulties in the context of stroke, brain injury and neurological conditions. This will involve significant provision of consultation, advice, training and supervision.
- To lead on and participate in various service development and quality improvement projects.
Working for our organisation
At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this post.
This role is part of the Older Adult and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department. OA&NC are a group of psychologists working into a range of settings (older adult mental health, dementia, stroke, LTNC), allowing you access to a wealth of experience and supervision. We support training and development and there may be opportunities in postgraduate clinical neuropsychology training.
There may be additional opportunities for temporary hours within the division, as well as opportunities within the Rotherham Stroke service, which can be discussed with candidates at interview.
Informal enquiries about the role are welcome; please see the contact details sections.
Person specification
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological/therapeutic assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- • Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (eg SPSS) (Clinical/Counselling Psychologists only).
- • Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC/BABCP (or equivalent body for your profession).
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups (older adults, stroke, brain injury, neurological conditions)
- • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- • Knowledge of relevant legislation
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS (or equivalent for your profession)
- • Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology/therapy.
- • Additional, post-qualification short courses
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant/experience of specialist psychological/therapeutic assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including inpatient wards, community, primary care and outpatient settings.
- • Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive
- • Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse (dependent on length of time since qualifying).
- • Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working with people with stroke, ABI, and other neurological conditions.
- • Experience of teaching and/or training
- • Experience of providing supervision
- • Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology/therapy in different cultural contexts.
Other
Essential criteria
- • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and that of others
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials including Powerpoint suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice and to contribute to that of others
- • Ability to deal with exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
- • Ability to maintain intense concentration on a frequent basis
- • Ability to exercise judgement when presented with highly complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- • The role is based in Sheffield and involves travel across the city; a valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business use is needed due to the nature of the role.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jo Hawker
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist Stroke
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2263155
- Additional information
Informal enquiries welcome, via
Dr Jo Hawker
Principal Clinical Psychologist Stroke
0114 2263155
Dr Nicola Bethel
Consultant Clinical Psychologist LTNC
01142263155
nicola.bethel@ shsc.nhs.uk
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