# 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/f494e28c-cf2c-4180-a6e7-f77565d97f0f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-psychologist/f494e28c-cf2c-4180-a6e7-f77565d97f0f.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 - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 1.8 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-16T07:30:59.118Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Sheffield/Sheffield_Health_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8143473 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8143473?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.shsc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are recruiting, permanently, to 1.8 wte B8a Clinical Psychologists across Older Adult Services, including Older Adult Community Mental Health Teams; Older Adult Mental Health ward; and the Older Adult Dementia ward.  Exact configuration of the posts will depend on successful candidates experience and the needs of services. The successful post-holder will work directly with older adults with SMI &/or dementia and their families; provide consultation & formulations, particularly where there are issues of risk & complexity; offer staff support & reflective practice; lead/contribute to service development initiatives. As well as delivering a clinical psychology (both therapy & neuropsychology) service to service users across the Older Adult pathway, 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 & leadership. The OA&NC 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). We welcome interest from people who are interested in B7 roles. If you are interested please contact Dr Shonagh Scott, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, 0114 226 3131, \[email protected\]. ### Main duties of the job To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to service users of Older Adult Mental Health services, both community and in-patients. 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 services, community and in-patients, 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 **Desirable** - Experience of working within a multicultural framework. ### 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. - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. ### 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 providing supervision - Experience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts. ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists. ## Documents - [jd & ps b7 (pdf, 688.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10442438) - [jd & ps b8a (pdf, 696.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10442437) ## 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.