Employer Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Crystal Building Town Doncaster Salary £66,582 – £77,368 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/06/2026 23:59
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
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.
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.
Main duties of the job
The role will 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. The postholder will be responsible for recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns, including any indicators of harm, abuse, neglect, or poor clinical practice, and will take appropriate action in line with statutory and organisational requirements. They will undertake comprehensive risk assessment and contribute expert psychological perspectives to inform safe, effective risk management across the multi‑disciplinary team. The role will involve formulating and delivering individual, family, and group psychological interventions, adapting approaches as needed and evaluating progress to guide ongoing care. The postholder will also provide specialist consultation, advice, and psychological insight to colleagues involved in assessment, formulation, and intervention planning. They will support collaborative decision‑making by helping map pathways and identify appropriate treatment options or service responses. Where required, they will lead multi‑disciplined planning processes, ensuring intervention plans are implemented consistently and that progress is monitored to promote safe, coordinated, and high‑quality care for children, young people, and their families.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Post‑graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as 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 of clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of working in multi‑agency teams and with a wide variety of client groups which reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and the threat of physical abuse.
- 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 supervising 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.
- Skills in evidence‑based psychological interventions.
- Well‑developed skills in the ability to knowledge and experience of working within the context of child protection settings.
- Communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and therapies.
- Leadership skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research A/I design and complex multivariable data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Able to work effectively in a team setting.
- Articulate the value added by psychological provision within the context of multidisciplinary mental health healthcare provision.
- Undertake complex multi‑agency working and liaise with multiple systems.
- Utilise psychometric tests competently.
- Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team.
- Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing.
- Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
Skills
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
- The capacity to tolerate frequent exposure to unpredictable working conditions including demanding, verbally and possibly physically aggressive clients.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to maintain high quality clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and stressful conditions.
- Ability to take care of oneself (and others) in a pressured work with minimal supervision in an environment with difficult clients and high stress job demands.
- Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances.
- Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team.
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently.
- Committed to continual quality and service improvement, self‑aware and committed to professional and personal development.
- Able to accept and respond positively to feedback.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive behaviour.
- Ability to administer accurately and speedily complex psychometric test materials.
- Capacity to concentrate intensely for clinical work.
- Access to transport and the ability to travel within the required geographical area.
- This post is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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