Clinical Psychologist – Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
The postholder will provide highly specialist clinical psychology services within the Doncaster CAMHS Intellectual Disabilities Team, working with children and young people who have a learning disability and/or neurodevelopmental condition, and who present with complex emotional, behavioural, or mental health needs. Closing date: 04 June 2026.
The postholder will deliver expert psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, and provide clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team (MDT). They will contribute to service development, training, supervision, and the promotion of psychologically informed and trauma‑aware practice across the ID CAMHS pathway.
Responsibilities
Provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for children and young people with complex needs, drawing on a wide range of evidence‑based tools and integrating information from multiple sources to develop clear, developmentally informed formulations. Recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns, undertake comprehensive risk assessment, and contribute expert psychological perspectives to inform safe, effective risk management across the MDT. Formulate and deliver individual, family, and group psychological interventions, adapting approaches as needed and evaluating progress. Provide specialist consultation, advice, and psychological insight to colleagues involved in assessment, formulation, and intervention planning. Support collaborative decision‑making and lead multi‑disciplinary planning processes to ensure consistent implementation of intervention plans and monitoring of progress.
Qualifications
- Post‑graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology accredited by the BPS.
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Additional leadership training.
Experience
- Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings.
- Experience working in multi‑agency teams with a wide variety of client groups, maintaining professionalism in highly emotive and distressing situations.
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Offering clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team.
- Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies.
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervision for doctoral theses.
- Research and development.
- Active participation in quality and service improvement initiatives.
Knowledge
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Experience of evidence‑based psychological interventions.
- Knowledge and experience of working within the context of child protection settings.
- Effective communication, both oral and written, of complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, families, carers and professional colleagues.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and therapies.
- Leadership skills in providing consultation to professional and non‑professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariable data analysis.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting.
- Articulation of the value added by psychological provision within multidisciplinary mental health healthcare provision.
- Undertaking complex multi‑agency work and liaising with multiple systems.
- Competent use of psychometric tests.
- Providing effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team.
- Identifying and promoting appropriate interventions for carers and staff exposed to distressing situations.
- Utilisation of appropriate clinical governance mechanisms.
Skills
- Demonstration of leadership and management skills.
- Tolerance of unpredictable working conditions, demanding, verbally and possibly physically aggressive clients.
- Ability to cope with organisational stress and maintain high‑quality clinical practice.
- Self‑care and resilience in a high‑stress environment.
- Compliance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.
- Engagement with vulnerable people and working in distressing circumstances.
- Flexibility and cooperative teamwork.
- Independent decision‑making using own initiative.
- Commitment to continual quality and service improvement and professional development.
- Capacity to teach and train others using a variety of multimedia materials.
- Implementation of clinical governance mechanisms to support practice.
- Accurate and efficient administration of complex psychometric tests.
- Concentration for clinical work.
- Access to transport and ability to travel within the required geographical area.
- Subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be undertaken to verify no previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £66,582 – £77,368 per annum, pro rata.
