Job summary
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist with relevant experience to join our Home Treatmentservice 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 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, assistant(s), 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.
Details
Date posted
07 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year PA
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
457-25-7465839
Job locations
Longley Centre
Northern General Hospital, Norwood Grange Drive
Sheffield
S5 7JT
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for a full description of the role duties and person specification.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please see attached job description for a full description of the role duties and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- experience of service development and evaluation
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional informationDisclosure 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Longley Centre
Northern General Hospital, Norwood Grange Drive
Sheffield
S5 7JT
Employer's website
https://www.shsc.nhs.uk/working-us (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Longley Centre
Northern General Hospital, Norwood Grange Drive
Sheffield
S5 7JT
Employer's website
Salary range
- £55,690 - £62,682 per year