Clinical Associate Psychologist

Integrated Care System; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Sheffield is seeking Clinical Associate Psychologists to deliver psychological interventions for patients with eating disorders. You will join a multidisciplinary team and provide support in both community and clinical settings, focused on delivering evidence-based care. Ideal candidates will hold an approved qualification in psychology and have experience in psychological therapies.

Benefits

Flexible working

Clinical supervision support

Investment in staff development

Qualifications

• Eligible for graduate basis for registration with the British Psychological Society.
• Able to assess and formulate experiences based on psychological models.
• Knowledge of eating disorders and relevant therapies.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological interventions to service users.
• Work alongside multidisciplinary teams in various settings.
• Assess and deliver treatments to those with complex psychological needs.

Skills

Assessment skills

Knowledge of psychological therapies

Communication skills

Education

Approved qualification in psychology

Job description

Go back Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Associate Psychologist

The closing date is 25 August 2025

We are seeking to recruit several Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAPs) to provide psychological interventions to service users of the Adult Eating Disorder Service as part of a multi-disciplinary team SEDS (Sheffield Eating Disorders Service). As part of service developments to enhance regional provision; the roles will involve working with the SEDS team for our service users in their respective geographical areas. SEDS is a regional service covering South Yorkshire (Sheffield hub and regional spokes within Barnsley, Rotherham & Doncaster). You will be working with patients attending clinics, in community and inpatient settings and in their own homes.

The characteristics of the core population receiving direct services are people with complex psychological and emotional needs who may have experienced adverse life events. Your work will primarily involve assessing and delivering interventions to people presenting with moderate to severe Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.

Main duties of the job

You will be working within a multidisciplinary team which includes medics, nursing, occupational therapy, dieticians, CBT therapists and clinical psychologists. You will work will be under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist who will retain clinical responsibility for clinical work carried out, provided that the clinical work is within the care plan specified. There will be opportunities to train in NICE concordant specialist therapies for the treatment of eating disorders (CBT-T, SSCM and MANTRA). Alongside relevant trainings and individual supervisions, you will have access to intervention specific group supervision from qualified CBT therapists and clinical psychologists.

Assessments and interventions will be delivered in a range of settings, including community, Voluntary and Community and Social Enterprises (VCSE) as well as NHS clinics; in person, by telephone or using digital platforms.

The post holder will be involved in partnership working, liaising with various stakeholders in the system, e.g., GPs, primary and secondary care mental health services, colleges and universities, and the 3rd sector/VCSE. The post holder will also be involved in raising the awareness of the complexity of the health and social challenges many people face and the impact this has on mental health & well-being.

About us

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, we're looking for people who share this passion to join us.

We offer flexible working , we genuinely care about our staff; we invest in you. We protect time for peer and clinical supervision. We invest in fostering cohesion and a team mentality. We are a sociable bunch of supportive, skilled clinicians that genuinely want to develop mental health care , using our autonomy, initiative, and innovative ways of working to help forge mental health care for the future.

It is important to us that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of.

Forest Close is a 30 bed intensive inpatient rehabilitation service located in the north of Sheffield. We support adults with enduring and complex mental health needs to recover meaningful lives, work towards more independence, and rebuild their ability and confidence to live in the community. We are an experienced and large multi-disciplinary team and we use a whole team approach to deliver least-restrictive evidence-based care and we strive to continuously improve our service.

We have won national awards in recognition of our positive practice in mental health and are proud to be one of the first services in Sheffield to achieve the Accreditation for Inpatient Mental Health Services (AIMS) from the Royal College of Psychiatry.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification.

The post holder would be expected to work closely with experts-by-experience, local communities, VCSE, to co-produce and co-develop services. We welcome applications from people who have previous experience of using Mental Health services, and/or individuals who are/have been a carer.

The post holder will primarily be involved in partnership working, liaising with various stakeholders in the system, e.g., GPs, primary and secondary care mental health services, colleges and universities, and the 3rd sector/VCSE. The post holder will also be involved in raising the awareness of the complexity of the health and social challenges many people face and the impact this has on mental health & well-being.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• An approved qualification in psychology conferring eligibility for graduate basis for registration with the British Psychological Society, (Class 2.2 or higher)
• Additional training

Clinical

• Able to assess the limits of professional boundaries and capacity to understand when to seek appropriate supervision/advice on practice and whom to refer to so as to ensure best care
• To be able to assess and formulate someone's experiences drawing on a range of psychological models and theory
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies in specific complex groups (Eating Disorders).
• Evidence of inputting into service development

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.

Employer name

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

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