# Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/178ed8d0-f164-480d-848d-6856e4a90d9d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/178ed8d0-f164-480d-848d-6856e4a90d9d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Sheffield - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Closing date:** 2026-08-11T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-20T10:51:29.228Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Sheffield/Sheffield_Health_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8142539 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8142539?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.shsc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Looking for a new job for 2026 in a fabulous city?  We have a new post within the Older Adult Home Treatment Team (OAHTT) for a permanent 8a Clinical Psychologist (0.8wte). OAHTT works with older people with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or dementia who are at risk of admission to mental health in-patient wards or who require support following discharge from wards. The successful post-holder will work directly with older adults with SMI and/or dementia and their families; will provide consultation and formulations, particularly where there are issues of risk & complexity; will offer staff support & reflective practice; and will lead/contribute to service development initiatives. As well as delivering a clinical psychology (both therapy and neuropsychology) service to service users within OAHTT, the post-holder will supervise psychological professionals and other members of the MDT. As part of the Older Adult and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership. The OA&NC department are a group of psychologists working into a range of settings (older adult mental health, dementia, stroke, brain injury, long term neurological conditions), allowing you access to a wealth of experience (CBT accredited supervisors, neuropsychology supervision, EMDR trained psychologists). ### Main duties of the job To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to service users of Older Adult Home Treatment Team. To provide specialist psychological assessment, including neuropsychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals. The postholder is responsible for the co–ordination and organisation of the work of other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically informed care and treatment. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, including neuropsychological assessments, of service users referred to Older Adult Home Treatment Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the person’s care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings. 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 older adults with serious mental illnesses and/or dementia. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - - Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and that of others - - 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological 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. **Desirable** - - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups: older adults with serious mental illness and/or dementia. ### Experience **Essential** - - Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient 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 - - Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams **Desirable** - - Experience of teaching and/or training - - Experience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts ### Qualifications **Essential** - - 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 BPS - - Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist - - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists. ## Documents - [jd & ps (pdf, 696.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10441402) ## 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.