Principal Clinical/Forensic Psychologist Jobs

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Location:
United Kingdom, Sheffield

Category:
Health and Beauty

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

64455.00 - 74896.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

We are looking for a dynamic psychologist to help shape and implement innovation to our offer of support and ways of working with young people, their families and the professional networks around them. Within Community CAMHS we have recognised that some of our current ways of working may not be what is needed for some of the young people and families most in need of care and support and we are committed to work towards change and improvement. If you are passionate about ensuring high quality care for young people and families who experience multi layers of disadvantage, this may be the job for you. This is an exciting development and will offer a psychologist in this post opportunities for service development, leadership, and co-production. At the core of this role is the ability to provide psychologically informed support for multiagency and multidisciplinary colleagues, alongside delivering highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with young people and families. A keen interest in working in complex safeguarding and in a multiagency way is essential.

Job Responsibility:

Provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people referred to the service
Lead on psychological formulation and care planning within a multi-agency context
Offer consultation, training, and support to non-psychologist colleagues and carers
Contribute to service development, clinical governance, audit, and applied research
Supervise and help develop more junior psychologists and trainees
Promote a culture of learning, reflective practice, and collaborative working

Requirements:

Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro-psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
Further specialist training & supervision in specific psychological approaches and with specific client groups supported by a programme of professional development as identified in an agreed personal development plan
Further post doctoral training, supervision and experience in the specific area of service
HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
Assessed experience and competencies normally acquired through working as a qualified clinical/forensic psychologist, including significant experience in services for children with mental health, health and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties
Experience of working and communicating with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course
in particular, children of pre-school, primary school age and adolescents, as well as work with family groups and adults, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse
Specific experience and competencies in clinical/forensic psychology, including in- and out-patients and consultation to professional colleagues
Experience of delivering and/or supervising presentations across a range of sectors- including (a) CAMHS, (b) physical health/paediatrics, (c) child development, (d) learning disabilities, (e) neuropsychology, (f) social services/child protection, (g) Pre-school/Early Years, (h) adolescence, (I) forensic, (j) primary care and community development
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children of all ages, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Doctoral level knowledge and or equivalent of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology
Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
Ability to identify, and employ as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Commitment and competencies in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings

Nice to have:

Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Further formal training, qualification or accreditation in specialised psychological approaches (eg BPS DECP, DNP, UKCP etc)
Experience of representing a psychological perspective within the context of multi-disciplinary care
Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings
Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of children with specific health or developmental difficulties
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. eating disorder, dual diagnoses, child protection, chronic or terminal illness, severely challenging behaviours etc)
Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessment and intervention approaches in specific modalities (e.g. family therapy, cognitive therapy, psychotherapy etc.) or integrative approaches
Experience of working within a multicultural framework

What we offer:

Generous annual leave and pension schemes
Health and wellbeing programmes
Exclusive discounts

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 12, 2025

Expiration:
December 22, 2025

Employment Type:

Parttime

Work Type:

On-site work

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Principal Clinical/Forensic Psychologist