# Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/227e6d27-aeb5-4d26-95f0-1b5cb81e38b0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/227e6d27-aeb5-4d26-95f0-1b5cb81e38b0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** Lawton House, Trust Headquarters - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 16 months (Until 6 March 2028) - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-13T10:31:13.653Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Stoke_on_Trent/North_Staffordshire_Combined_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Clinical_Psychologist/Clinical_Psychologist-v8351731 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8351731?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.combined.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The North Stoke CAMHS Team are looking to recruit to a part-time Band 7 Clinical Psychologist on a fixed term basis until 6 March 2028. The successful candidate will: Be accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to children, young people and families experiencing complex mental health concerns and distress or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours. Be compassionate in meeting the needs of children, young people, their carers and families. Provide advice, guidance and clinical supervision to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team. Undertake formal research as an integral part of the job. Be pro-active in continual service improvement within own area. Promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities. ### Main duties of the job Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources. Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk. Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients’ mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers. Implements a range of specialist psychological therapies. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Analyses complex client information, derived from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with the client, family members and others involved in the client’s care. Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. Responsible for maintaining appropriate boundaries with service users. The post holder may be required to undertake duties not specified in the job description, but which are commensurate with the role and/or band as required by service need. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health - Doctoral level knowledge of Evidence-based practice relevant to the role ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, inpatient settings. Some experience of working with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems. - Experience of working with children, young people and families and carers. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. - HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist. ## Documents - [nhs pension (pdf, 97.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1216) - [employee benefits (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2653) - [new starters relocation policy (pdf, 320.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2926) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 216.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10677177) ## 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.