Clinical/Forensic Psychologist / Senior Clinical/Forensic PsychologistThe closing date is 13 August 2026Job summaryAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist within the Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT) in Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Trust in a permanent role.
CERT is a pioneering rehabilitation service developed to provide high quality care for services users with multiple complex needs in the community. CERT was developed as an intensive community team model to minimise the need for long-term, repeated or out-of-city inpatient admissions. Service users are supported to live in their own homes or supported accommodation. The team aims to increase independence, quality of life and building links with their local community. Our approach is built on trusting therapeutic relationships and a holistic, psychologically informed understanding of each person.
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, skilled and compassionate Psychologist to work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
The post will suit a candidate with experience of work with adults with chronic and complex presentations, such as psychosis, complex trauma and complex emotional needs. Enthusiasm and willingness to work proactively with complexity in both multi-disciplinary teams and within a multi-agency context is also essential.
Main duties of the jobWe are looking for a psychologist who is passionate about person-centered, trauma-informed care. Someone who is interested in supporting a diverse group of service users with significant levels of trauma and distress, using a positive and collaborative approach to psychological therapy and risk/safety.
Psychological leadership is highly valued within this large rehabilitation service and central to facilitating a whole team approach, team formulation and reflective practice are central to inform our work.
- To provide a specialist clinical psychology/psychological therapy service to service users of the Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT).
- To provide psychological assessment, formulation and recovery interventions to service users and families.
- Offering highly specialised joint working, consultation and leadership to colleagues and other agencies.
- Supporting the team to use a 'whole team approach' to psychologically informed care through team formulation, reflective practice groups, staff training, staff support, consultation, supervision and management.
- Involvement and leadership in service development, quality improvement, evaluation and research.
- We are also an active learning environment and the role includes supporting students on placement with us, supervision of trainee psychologists and close connections with the local DClin course.
About usWe 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.
DetailsDate posted: 31 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: Depending on experience per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 457-26-8171337
Job locations: Sydney Street, 44 Sydney Street, Sheffield, S1 4RH, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users at the Community Enhancing Recovery Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including historic notes, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the persons care.
- To formulate and implement plans (direct, indirect & team-based) for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems including psychosis, complex trauma, PTSD.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the team employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.
- 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 coordinate, where appropriate, complex intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during both the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
- To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals.
- To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice.
- To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC, & BPS policies/guidelines/standards.
- To manage any waiting lists within the team and participate as a senior clinician in the allocation of cases taking into account skill mix and caseload. To respond to referrals, making autonomous professional and clinical judgements based upon complex information, prioritising accordingly and contributing to multidisciplinary decision making.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, and peer recovery workers, where appropriate, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
- To maintain professional registration as a Clinical Psychologist (practitioner psychologist) with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Person SpecificationQualifications and trainingEssential- Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical/forensic psychology
- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist (or pending registration imminently for trainees)
Desirable- Additional training in specialist therapies or assessments (e.g. EMDR; autism; DBT)
ExperienceEssential- Proven track record of working in multi disciplinary teams, i.e. consultation, team formulation
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
Desirable- Experience of working with families/systemic practice
- Experience working in adult mental health community team, inpatient or rehabilitation setting.
- Experience facilitating group supervision/reflective practice groups.
ExperienceEssential- For 8a: Demonstrates adequate experience for band: having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a qualified psychologist
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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 SponsorshipApplications 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.
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.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer contact detailsFor questions about the job, contact: Principal Clinical Psychologist, Dr Alice Kent, alice.kent@sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk, 01142716172
Employer detailsEmployer name: Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Sydney Street, 44 Sydney Street, Sheffield, S1 4RH, United Kingdom
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