Senior Clinical Psychologist

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Sheffield is seeking an experienced Senior Clinical Psychologist to provide specialized psychological interventions and assessments for individuals at risk of hospitalization. The role includes maintaining a clinical caseload, providing supervision to other professionals, and contributing to service development. Ideal candidates will possess a doctoral-level education in clinical psychology and significant experience across various care settings.

Benefits

Access to training and education opportunities

Supportive work environment

Involvement in research initiatives

Qualifications

• Postgraduate training with HCPC registration.
• Formal training in supervision of psychologists.
• Training in evidence-based assessment and intervention.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialized psychological assessments using various methods.
• Formulate and implement psychological treatment plans.
• Provide consultation, advice, and guidance to other professionals.

Skills

Specialist psychological assessment

Clinical supervision

Evidence-based assessment

Therapeutic interventions

Education

Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 18 December 2025

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist with relevant experience to join our Home Treatment service in Sheffield. The teams work with a range of partner agencies, including GP's and VCSE organisations, to deliver interventions and treatment to people with a range of mental health difficulties in crisis including those with serious mental illness with a focus on reducing risk and avoiding hospital admission. The successful candidate will join a large team of supportive multi‑professionals alongside clinical and forensic psychologists, psychotherapists and clinical associate psychologists within the acute, crisis and inpatient psychology team.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has experience of supporting people at risk of hospital admission to receive specialist care at home. There are ongoing opportunities in the service to shape the psychology clinical pathway and the successful applicant will be actively involved in ‘Home First’ development. The post holder will maintain a clinical caseload, provide clinical supervision, reflective practice and debrief for staff and will actively work with the other psychology lead to deliver a highly specialist service. The psychology team is research active and has close links with Sheffield University.

Main duties of the job

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based on 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.

To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.

To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.

To contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service.

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 provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists/therapists, counsellors, clinical associates, assistants, or other professionals.

To contribute to the development, research, service evaluation and audit.

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.

At SHSC, we prioritise the well‑being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust’s Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for a full description of the role duties and person specification.

Qualifications

• Post‑graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC or post graduate training as a psychotherapist with BABCP registration or equivalent
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists/ psychotherapists
• Training and qualifications in evidence based assessment and intervention
• Additional, post‑qualification short courses
• Ability to work in a range of assessment and treatment modalities to meet patient needs

Experience

• 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.
• Evidence of leading restorative interventions for staff (RP etc)
• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• Evidence of leading clinical service improvement initiative
• Experience of representing therapeutic/psychological work within the context of multi‑disciplinary care
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.

Experience

• experience of service development and evaluation

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.

Address

Longley Centre

Northern General Hospital, Norwood Grange Drive