Principal Clinical Psychologist/ Family Therapist

Principal Clinical Psychologist/ Family Therapist Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Join our CAMHS Eating Disorders Team at Sheffield Children's Hospital. This new role is part of our commitment to the Sheffield Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Team (SEDATT).

You'll be an important part of the SEDATT leadership team, providing high-quality service to children and families. Collaborating with a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, you'll support service development through training, consultation, and supervision, while working with acute hospital colleagues and partner agencies.

You will receive support from our wider Psychologist Services team, which includes Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists, CBT therapists, and more, working across community, specialist, inpatient CAMHS, and Paediatric Services.

Main duties of the job

Reporting into the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist, your responsibilities will include:

1. Provide specialist Clinical Psychology services to children, young people, and families referred to SEDATT.
2. Conduct psychological assessments and interventions, including reports, formulations, and consultations.
3. Provide supervision and training on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and carers.
4. Join the Senior Leadership team to help manage the running of the service, including proposal and implementation of policy changes in the specialist area.
5. Work autonomously within professional guidelines, ensuring quality psychological practice.
6. Use research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research.

About us

At Sheffield Children's, our purpose is clear: to provide healthier futures for children and young people. Our three strategic aims are:

• Brilliant Place to work
• Leaders in Children's Health

We work with local, regional, and national partners to provide physical and mental healthcare across acute and community settings. Many of our clinicians are amongst the best in their field, recognised nationally and internationally for their expertise.

As well as having enormous pride in what we do, we are a friendly, welcoming, and motivated NHS Trust who are guided by our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. Our nearly 4000 colleagues live these values, ensuring kind and compassionate care that makes patients and their families feel safe and at home.

Sheffield Children's provides great benefits to support your wellbeing, with excellent annual leave and pension schemes, health programmes, and exclusive discounts helping you succeed at work and beyond.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• Further specialist training & supervision in specific psychological approaches and with specific client groups supported by a programme of professional development.
• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with Health Professions Council.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Further training in systemic practice and treatment of eating disorders.
• Further training in assessment/diagnosis of neuro divergent presentations.
• Further training in leadership.
• Accreditation in specialised psychological approaches.

Experience

• Assessed experience and competencies normally acquired through working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of four years with 2 years at a specialist level.
• Experience of working and communicating with a wide variety of client groups, including children of pre-school, primary school age and adolescents.
• Specific experience and competencies in child clinical psychology.
• Experience of delivering and/or supervising child and family presentations across a range of sectors.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of children with highly complex needs.

Knowledge

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
• Well developed skills in communicating complex information to children, their families, and other professionals.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
• Commitment and competencies in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

£62,215 to £72,293 a year pro rata