# Applied Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/applied-psychologist/28bf1a62-c1a5-4ac2-b4eb-3bc0c0c93f0b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/applied-psychologist/28bf1a62-c1a5-4ac2-b4eb-3bc0c0c93f0b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Doncaster - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T09:30:41.496Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Doncaster/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Applied_Psychologist_Clinical_Counselling/Applied_Psychologist_Clinical_Counselling-v8057948 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8057948?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity for an Applied Psychologist to join our mental health services across Rotherham and Doncaster and contribute to making a meaningful impact on the lives of older people and their families.  We welcome applications from those at band 7 (or due to be qualified) as this is a preceptorship role with scope to progress to 8a over time. The post provides an opportunity to develop a broad range of skills within both community-based multidisciplinary teams and inpatient services. Candidates must be qualified psychologists registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. This post offers the successful candidate the opportunity to develop a range of skills as the role is split between settings, with time spent in a Older Person’s Community Mental Health Team, contributing to wider CMHTs across Doncaster through a psychology hub, and working within an inpatient service for acute mental health problems and dementia. Responsibilities include delivering specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments and interventions across both care environments. Suitable candidates should be a suitably qualified psychologist and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. We are keen to hear from anyone who has a passion for working in a trauma informed way with older people experiencing complex mental health challenges and/or neurodegenerative conditions, and has a collaborative, team-orientated approach. ### Main duties of the job - Deliver trauma-informed and evidence-based interventions, consultations, and psychological and neuro-psychological assessments. - Provide psychological input to multi-agency risk management / treatment plans. - Offer consultation, supervision, and training to colleagues and external agencies to promote psychological understanding. - Contribute to service delivery, development and quality improvement initiatives. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications ## Job Details This is an exciting opportunity for an Applied Psychologist to join our mental health services across Rotherham and Doncaster and contribute to making a meaningful impact on the lives of older people and their families. We welcome applications from those at band 7 (or due to be qualified) as this is a preceptorship role with scope to progress to 8a over time. The post provides an opportunity to develop a broad range of skills within both community-based multidisciplinary teams and inpatient services. Candidates must be qualified psychologists registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. This post offers the successful candidate the opportunity to develop a range of skills as the role is split between settings, with time spent in a Older Person’s Community Mental Health Team, contributing to wider CMHTs across Doncaster through a psychology hub, and working within an inpatient service for acute mental health problems and dementia. Responsibilities include delivering specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments and interventions across both care environments. Suitable candidates should be a suitably qualified psychologist and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. We are keen to hear from anyone who has a passion for working in a trauma informed way with older people experiencing complex mental health challenges and/or neurodegenerative conditions, and has a collaborative, team-orientated approach. ## Job Description Deliver trauma-informed and evidence-based interventions, consultations, and psychological and neuro-psychological assessments. Provide psychological input to multi-agency risk management / treatment plans. Offer consultation, supervision, and training to colleagues and external agencies to promote psychological understanding. Contribute to service delivery, development and quality improvement initiatives. ## Responsibilities Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management (including risk assessment and management) frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration - Ability to provide and promote appropriate support to carers and staff exposed to highly challenging situations. - Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. - Ability to balance and respond to urgent or competing service demands - A willingness to be flexible in managing own time in order to respond to service needs - Evidence of CPD as recommended by the BPS and HCPC **Desirable** - Skills in providing training to other professional and non-professional groups. - Ability to support and promote service development or quality improvement projects. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of legislation, guidelines, policies and government-led initiatives, and mental health needs in relation to older adult patients. - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. attachment, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.). - Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology. **Desirable** - Post-doctoral knowledge in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including supervisor training for doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, e.g., outpatient, community, inpatient etc. - Experience of working with a wide variety of client 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 - Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings/teams. - Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment. - Demonstrate further specialist training/experience working as an applied psychologist - Ability to contain and work with organisational stress, and to hold the stress of others. **Desirable** - Experience of providing training to a range of stakeholders - Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS - HCPC registered as practitioner psychologist - Continued professional development through structured self-study, specialist clinical supervision, and/or relevant combination of short courses **Desirable** - Additional postgraduate advanced training/qualification in one or more relevant therapy approaches e.g. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, neuropsychology, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, EMDR, SCM, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy. - Prepared to successfully complete the supervisory qualification. ## Documents - [jd & ps band 7 (docx, 196.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10348000) - [jd & ps band 8a (docx, 214.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10348001) - [main terms and conditions (pdf, 406.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2515) - [rdash clinical & organisational strategy - 2023 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2789) - [use of artificial intelligence (ai) when writing job applications (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2919) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.