# Senior 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/senior-clinical-psychologist/ee5b7023-2762-498b-9e98-c70710d5355d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-psychologist/ee5b7023-2762-498b-9e98-c70710d5355d.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:** per anum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-27T08:10:39.304Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Sheffield/Sheffield_Health_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v7991592 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7991592?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.shsc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior (8a) Clinical Psychologist within the Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT) in Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Trust in a permanent role. CERT is a pioneering rehabilitation service developed to provide high quality care for services users with multiple complex needs in the community. CERT was developed as an intensive community team model to minimise the need for long-term, repeated or out-of-city inpatient admissions.  Service users are supported to live in their own homes or supported accommodation. The team aims to increase independence, quality of life and building links with their local community. Our approach is built on trusting therapeutic relationships and a holistic, psychologically informed understanding of each person. We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, skilled and compassionate Clinical Psychologist to work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. The post will suit a candidate with experience of work with adults with chronic and complex presentations, such as psychosis, complex trauma and complex emotional needs. Enthusiasm and willingness to work proactively with complexity in both multi-disciplinary teams and within a multi-agency context is also essential. ### Main duties of the job We are looking for a psychologist who is passionate about person-centered, trauma-informed care. Someone who is interested in supporting a diverse group of service users with significant levels of trauma and distress, using a positive and collaborative approach to psychological therapy and risk/safety. Psychological leadership is highly valued within this large rehabilitation service and central to facilitating a whole team approach, team formulation and reflective practice are central to inform our work. To provide a specialist clinical psychology/psychological therapy service to service users of the Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT). To provide psychological assessment, formulation and recovery interventions to service users and families. Offering highly specialised joint working, consultation and leadership to colleagues and other agencies. Supporting the team to use a 'whole team approach' to psychologically informed care through team formulation, reflective practice groups, staff training, staff support, consultation, supervision and management. Involvement and leadership in service development, quality improvement, evaluation and research. We are also an active learning environment and the role includes supporting students on placement with us, supervision of trainee psychologists and close connections with the local DClin course. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users at the Community Enhancing Recovery Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including historic notes, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, 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 (direct, indirect & team-based) 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. 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 psychosis, complex trauma, PTSD. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the team employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To coordinate, where appropriate, complex intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during both the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals. To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice. To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC, & BPS policies/guidelines/standards. To manage any waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases taking into account skill mix and caseload. To respond to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, and peer recovery workers, where appropriate, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures. To maintain professional registration as a Clinical Psychologist (practitioner psychologist) with the Health and Care Professions Council. ## Job Details An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior (8a) Clinical Psychologist within the Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT) in Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Trust in a permanent role. CERT is a pioneering rehabilitation service developed to provide high quality care for services users with multiple complex needs in the community. CERT was developed as an intensive community team model to minimise the need for long-term, repeated or out-of-city inpatient admissions. Service users are supported to live in their own homes or supported accommodation. The team aims to increase independence, quality of life and building links with their local community. Our approach is built on trusting therapeutic relationships and a holistic, psychologically informed understanding of each person. We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, skilled and compassionate Clinical Psychologist to work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. The post will suit a candidate with experience of work with adults with chronic and complex presentations, such as psychosis, complex trauma and complex emotional needs. Enthusiasm and willingness to work proactively with complexity in both multi-disciplinary teams and within a multi-agency context is also essential. ## Job Description We are looking for a psychologist who is passionate about person-centered, trauma-informed care. Someone who is interested in supporting a diverse group of service users with significant levels of trauma and distress, using a positive and collaborative approach to psychological therapy and risk/safety. Psychological leadership is highly valued within this large rehabilitation service and central to facilitating a whole team approach, team formulation and reflective practice are central to inform our work. To provide a specialist clinical psychology/psychological therapy service to service users of the Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT). To provide psychological assessment, formulation and recovery interventions to service users and families. Offering highly specialised joint working, consultation and leadership to colleagues and other agencies. Supporting the team to use a 'whole team approach' to psychologically informed care through team formulation, reflective practice groups, staff training, staff support, consultation, supervision and management. Involvement and leadership in service development, quality improvement, evaluation and research. We are also an active learning environment and the role includes supporting students on placement with us, supervision of trainee psychologists and close connections with the local DClin course. ## Responsibilities To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users at the Community Enhancing Recovery Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including historic notes, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, 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 (direct, indirect & team-based) 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. 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 psychosis, complex trauma, PTSD. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the team employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To coordinate, where appropriate, complex intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during both the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care. To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals. To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice. To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC, & BPS policies/guidelines/standards. To manage any waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases taking into account skill mix and caseload. To respond to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, and peer recovery workers, where appropriate, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures. To maintain professional registration as a Clinical Psychologist (practitioner psychologist) with the Health and Care Professions Council. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users - Demonstrates adequate training/experience for role/band, e.g. through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist or 18 months at band 7 **Desirable** - Ability to be part of the wider Leadership team, be a positive role model, and be able to lead on difficult discussions - Previous experience of working in adult mental health rehabilitation ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Proven track record of working in teams, i.e. consultation, team formulation ### Training and Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology - Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist - Formal training in supervision and/or experience of supervising others ## Documents - [jd (docx, 449.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10326480) ## 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.