Clinical Psychologist

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in Sheffield seeks a Clinical Psychologist to join their inpatient rehabilitation team. The role involves providing direct clinical work and supporting multidisciplinary teams in delivering high-quality care to individuals with complex mental health needs. Applicants must have a doctoral-level qualification in clinical psychology and HCPC registration by October 2025. This role offers opportunities for career development and is pivotal in enhancing patient care.

Benefits

Access to training and education opportunities

Supportive therapy team

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training accredited by HCPC/BPS.
• Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist by October 2025.
• Experience across a range of clinical severity.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions.
• Clinical leadership and support to the staff team.
• Contribute to research and development activities.

Skills

Working with complex mental health difficulties

Team formulation

Reflective practice

Clinical supervision

Education

Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 30 November 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join our inpatient rehabilitation team at Forest Close.

You will be joining a supportive therapy team of psychologists, CAPS, assistant psychologist and music therapy working at Forest Close. The successful candidate will be based working across 3 wards at Forest Close. You will take a key role in supporting and implementing compassionate, high‑quality, evidence‑based care, with opportunities to be innovative and influential and will develop your formulation and consultation skills in addition to direct clinical work, service development and leadership. The post will suit a candidate who has experience and interest in working with people with complex mental health difficulties within an MDT. We will support your ongoing development in a specialty area of clinical practice core to mental health rehabilitation, through CPD, supervision and service development.

Please read the Job Description document.

Main Duties of the Job

The post will suit a candidate who has experience and interest in working with people with severe, chronic and complex mental health difficulties within a multidisciplinary team and who can offer both direct and indirect work with service users, their families/carers and staff.

You will be involved in offering team formulation, reflective practice, teaching & training. Psychology roles are highly valued by the team and a positive approach and commitment to multidisciplinary teamwork is essential.

• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence‑based short‑term interventions for individuals and/or families/carers with service users presenting with complex and distressing psychological problems, including psychosis and complex trauma.
• Provide clinical leadership and contribute to the provision of a trauma‑informed and least restrictive environment through supporting the staff team in their decision making and offering indirect support through team formulation, reflective practice and individual supervision.
• Undertake Supervisor Training and Recognition (STAR) qualification and offer clinical supervision to others.
• Ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to inpatient rehabilitation settings.

About Us

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

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It's important 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.

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.

Job Responsibilities

Please read the attached job description and the person specifications for more details about this post.

Working in the Sheffield outdoor city, you will be a stone's throw from the Peak District and the city's many green spaces. Our links to the city's universities also offer you the chance to develop health workers of the future and contribute to research.

Person Specification – Qualifications (Essential)

• Post‑graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the HCPC/BPS.
• Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist or due to qualify and register by October 2025.

Person Specification – Experience (Essential)

• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties.
• Evidence of being able to work effectively in multi‑disciplinary settings and teams.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration with HCPC or be imminently expecting this if still undergoing training. For further information please see NHS Careers website.