Job requirements
Essential
23 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Evidence- based practice relevant to the role & in the care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behavior
- Skills
Risk assessment and risk management & clinical governance
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Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Skills
Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
- Skills
Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health and learning disability healthcare provision.
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Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems
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Utilise psychometric tests competently
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Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team.
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Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
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Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice.
- Experience
Working as a qualified 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.
- Experience
Working with people with complex emotional needs.
- Experience
Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care co ordinator/key worker and leader of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience
Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
- Experience
Teaching, training, clinical supervision of other psychological practitioners.
- Experience
Active participation in quality and service improvement initiatives.
- Qualifications
Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Qualifications
HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Qualifications
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Qualifications
Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
- Qualifications
Experienced in care co ordination
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Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Leadership skills
- Skills
Project Management / audit / quality Improvement skills
- Knowledge
Project Management / audit / quality Improvement knowledge
- Experience
Leading a therapy team
- Qualifications
Registration with BPS
- Qualifications
Additional post doctoral training in working with complex emotional needs, e.g., DBT.
Job overview
This exciting role provides highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for individuals with complex mental health needs, drawing on a range of evidence-based therapeutic models. The post holder will work with complexity, risk and uncertainty, offering psychological expertise to support formulation-driven and integrated care. Alongside a significant clinical caseload, the post holder will take a senior leadership role, providing supervision, clinical oversight and consultation to psychological therapists and multidisciplinary colleagues. They will support reflective practice and promote psychologically informed thinking across teams and pathways.
Main duties of the job
Working with senior clinical and operational leads, the post holder will contribute to service development, quality improvement and strategic planning, supporting effective pathways and responsive, high-quality care within system pressures. Strong leadership, communication and consultation skills are essential, with the ability to influence. A key aspect of the role is shaping and sustaining a culture of psychological safety, containment and shared responsibility. The post holder will promote reflective practice, curiosity and psychologically informed responses to clinical and organisational challenges, supporting staff to think and work with complexity. They will also support staff wellbeing and resilience, helping teams process the emotional impact of clinical work and maintain effective, cohesive functioning in high-pressure environments. We particularly welcome applicants with an interest in trauma and complex emotional needs.
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
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.
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This advert is for Principle Applied Psychologist with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66582.00 to £77368.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Nov 2026.
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