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Join our psychology-led team delivering mental health support across Sheffield educational settings as part of the ten year health plan. Working alongside the Healthy Minds Mental Health Support Team Lead, you will help schools develop trauma-informed, whole-school approaches to wellbeing, coordinate support for vulnerable pupils, and provide consultation, training and reflective practice for staff. You will also contribute to the offer for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs. This role combines direct clinical work with system-level change, supporting the application of psychological thinking across education.
Job Responsibility
Lead on supporting Senior Mental Health Leads in Sheffield schools to enhance whole-school wellbeing offer
Provide clinical supervision and case management for EMHPs and Assistant Psychologists
Develop psychologically informed care plans for vulnerable children and young people
Offer consultation, training, and reflective practice to school staff and MHST teams
Deliver direct psychological work with children and young people
Support service development and progress in collaboration with the Healthy Minds team
Requirements
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
Registration with HCPC as a clinical psychologist
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people
Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health and wellbeing problems
Experience of working with risk and knowledge of safeguarding procedures within health
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment
Well-developed skills in communication
Skills in providing consultation
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology
Some knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Ability to link psychological theory to practice
Ability to teach and train others
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance
Frequently cope with emotional demands
Commitment to multi-disciplinary team working
Commitment to promoting the voice of children and young people
Nice to have
Experience of working with schools and / or communities
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Experience of working with children and young people in a range of clinical settings
Experience of working with children and families within the area of work specific to this post
Experience of delivering and/or participating in reflective practice
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Knowledge of working systemically with teams to promote psychological approaches
Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Ability to work within schools to collaboratively develop whole school interventions