# Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/83b112a9-4152-4d3a-acc4-d5a7d0f7ff37 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/83b112a9-4152-4d3a-acc4-d5a7d0f7ff37.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 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T11:21:58.606Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Doncaster/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Acute_Inpatient/Adult_Acute_Inpatient-v8013322 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8013322?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred psychological care to adults experiencing acute mental health difficulties. You will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, helping individuals during some of their most challenging times. Working closely with psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, and other professionals, you will contribute to a psychologically informed environment that prioritises recovery, safety, and compassion. This is an opportunity to shape care at a critical point in a persons recovery Journey. You will help create a therapeutic inpatient environment where phycological understanding is at the heart of everything we do ### Main duties of the job Deliver specialist psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions for adults with complex mental health needs. Lead on formulation-driven care planning within the multidisciplinary team Provide consultation, training, and supervision to ward staff Support the development of trauma-informed and psychologically informed care practices Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance initiatives Supervise and support more junior psychology staff and trainees (where applicable) ### 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 to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred psychological care to adults experiencing acute mental health difficulties. You will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, helping individuals during some of their most challenging times. Working closely with psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, and other professionals, you will contribute to a psychologically informed environment that prioritises recovery, safety, and compassion. This is an opportunity to shape care at a critical point in a persons recovery Journey. You will help create a therapeutic inpatient environment where phycological understanding is at the heart of everything we do ## Job Description Deliver specialist psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions for adults with complex mental health needs. Lead on formulation-driven care planning within the multidisciplinary team Provide consultation, training, and supervision to ward staff Support the development of trauma-informed and psychologically informed care practices Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance initiatives Supervise and support more junior psychology staff and trainees (where applicable) ## 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** - Use complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for older people - Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems - Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations - Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people both within and outside the NHS - Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work - Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team - Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead practitioner responsibilities ### Knowledge **Essential** - Evidence-based practice relevant to the role - Risk assessment and risk management - Clinical governance - Knowledge of legislation and national agenda in relation to older people’s mental health and dementia - Audit and research methodology - Social inclusion agenda ### Experience **Essential** - Working as an applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings. - Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team (Essential at Band 8a) - Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies - Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses (Essential at Band 8a) - Research and development - Active participation in quality and service improvement initiatives ### 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 registration as a Practitioner Psychologist Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice (Essential at Band 8a) - Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees (Essential at Band 8a) - Evidence of continuing professional development ## Documents - [jd & ps (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10352565) - [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.