Applied Psychologist

Rotherham Doncaster And South Humber Nhs Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster and Rotherham seeks an Applied Psychologist (Band 7, preceptorship to 8a) to deliver specialist psychological assessments and interventions across community and inpatient settings.

The post offers trauma-informed work with older adults with complex mental health needs, opportunities for supervision and training, and a role within a psychology hub to support wider CMHTs.

Qualifications

• Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment across care settings.
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary settings/teams.
• HCPC registered practitioner psychologist.
• Post-graduate training in clinical psychology or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Deliver trauma-informed and evidence-based psychological assessments and interventions.
• Provide psychological input to multi-agency risk management/treatment plans.
• Offer consultation, supervision and training to colleagues and external agencies.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Specialist assessment

Neuropsychological assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Clinical responsibility

Trauma-informed approach

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an Applied Psychologist to join our mental health services across Rotherham and Doncaster and contribute to making a meaningful impact on the lives of older people and their families. We welcome applications from those at band 7 (or due to be qualified) as this is a preceptorship role with scope to progress to 8a over time. The post provides an opportunity to develop a broad range of skills within both community-based multidisciplinary teams and inpatient services. Candidates must be qualified psychologists registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. This post offers the successful candidate the opportunity to develop a range of skills as the role is split between settings, with time spent in a Older Person's Community Mental Health Team, contributing to wider CMHTs across Doncaster through a psychology hub, and working within an inpatient service for acute mental health problems and dementia. Responsibilities include delivering specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments and interventions across both care environments. Suitable candidates should be a suitably qualified psychologist and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. We are keen to hear from anyone who has a passion for working in a trauma informed way with older people experiencing complex mental health challenges and/or neurodegenerative conditions, and has a collaborative, team-orientated approach.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver trauma-informed and evidence-based interventions, consultations, and psychological and neuro-psychological assessments.
• Provide psychological input to multi-agency risk management / treatment plans.
• Offer consultation, supervision, and training to colleagues and external agencies to promote psychological understanding.
• Contribute to service delivery, development and quality improvement initiatives.

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected. We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services. We are dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues. We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below: https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/ To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website: https://workwithrdash.co.uk/ We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more: https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q The main terms and conditions of service can be found here: https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook

Details

Date posted: 13 August 2026 Pay scheme: Agenda for change Band: Band 7 Salary: £49,387 to £64,750 a year per annum Contract: Permanent Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working Reference number: 376-DCGM-0291-B Job locations: Tickhill Road Hospital Weston Road Doncaster DN4 8QN United Kingdom

Job description

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.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, e.g., outpatient, community, inpatient etc.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings/teams.
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment.
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience working as an applied psychologist
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress, and to hold the stress of others.
• Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies

Desirable

• Experience of providing training to a range of stakeholders
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team
• Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses
• Research and development
• Project Management
• Commitment to multi-disciplinary working

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of legislation, guidelines, policies and government-led initiatives, and mental health needs in relation to older adult patients.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. attachment, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
• The Trust's Quality Improvement System

Desirable

• Post-doctoral knowledge in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including supervisor training for doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees.
• Highly developed knowledge and skills in the care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour

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 registered as practitioner psychologist
• Continued professional development through structured self-study, specialist clinical supervision, and/or relevant combination of short courses
• Trained in care co-ordination

Desirable

• Additional postgraduate advanced training/qualification in one or more relevant therapy approaches e.g. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, neuropsychology, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, EMDR, SCM, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy.
• Prepared to successfully complete the supervisory qualification.
• Registration with BPS or ACP

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management (including risk assessment and management) frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Ability to provide and promote appropriate support to carers and staff exposed to highly challenging situations.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to balance and respond to urgent or competing service demands
• A willingness to be flexible in managing own time in order to respond to service needs
• Evidence of CPD as recommended by the BPS and HCPC
• Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
• Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems
• Utilise psychometric tests competently
• Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
• Use approved breakaway techniques
• Demonstrate effective keyboard skills
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings.

Desirable

• Skills in providing training to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to support and promote service development or quality improvement projects.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).