Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Care Group
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 376-NLCCG-0188
- Employer
- Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Nicholas House
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £49,387 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/11/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/11/2026
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist Development Post (Band 7/8a)
Band 7/8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist / Senior Clinical Psychologist to join the North Lincolnshire Children in Care CAMHS Team within a Band 7-8a developmental post.
The successful applicant will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for care-experienced children and young people, including those who have been adopted, presenting with complex emotional, behavioural, attachment, trauma-related and neurodevelopmental needs.
Working within the Tiered Foster Care model, the post holder will deliver direct clinical work alongside consultation, reflective practice and psychological support to carers, social workers, education staff and other professionals.
The role places a strong emphasis on trauma-informed, attachment-focused and relational approaches, recognising the importance of understanding children within the context of their relationships and wider systems. The post holder will contribute psychological expertise to multidisciplinary and multi-agency working, service development, training, audit and quality improvement activities, with opportunities to supervise trainees and assistant psychologists as appropriate. Based within a specialist and supportive multidisciplinary team, the role offers excellent opportunities for professional development, supervision and leadership growth, with a structured development pathway available for psychologists appointed at Band 7 who wish to progress towards Band 8a competencies.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for care-experienced children and young people with complex emotional, behavioural, attachment, trauma-related and neurodevelopmental needs.
- Work with children, young people, carers and professional networks using attachment-informed, trauma-informed and relational approaches to support positive outcomes.
- Offer consultation, reflective practice and psychological advice to foster carers, adopters, social workers, education staff and other professionals.
- Contribute psychological expertise to multidisciplinary and multi-agency discussions, care planning and decision-making.
- Deliver teaching and training to promote psychologically informed and trauma-informed practice across the wider system.
- Supervise and support trainee Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and other colleagues, as appropriate to experience and grade.
- Lead or contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit, research and evaluation activities.
- Develop psychological leadership within the service and contribute to the continued development of Children in Care CAMHS and the Tiered Foster Care model.
Working for our organisation
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
https://ptracaccpublic.blob.core.windows.net/docs-employer/340/2515/Main_Terms_and_Conditions.pdf
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or core professional qualification (i.e. Nursing, AHP, Social Work) with psychotherapy training to doctorate level.
- Relevant professional registration as a Psychological Professional
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological therapies practice depending on experience and grade
- Experienced in care co-ordination
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees dependent on experience and grade
- Post-doctoral training in one or more specialist areas of psychological practice. Training in DDP, Theraplay, TF-CBT, EMDR or other trauma-informed approaches
- Accreditation in additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to CAMHS setting
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist and appropriate experience or an alternative agreed by the Head of Psychology (Desirable at Band 7)
- Experience of safeguarding, risk assessment and risk management.
- Experience of supervision and support of colleagues.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, 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 of research methodology, research design and complex multivariable data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of CPD (Band 8a only)
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists (Band 8a only)
- Able to work effectively in a team setting
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and therapies
- Leadership skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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 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
Desirable criteria
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high number of applications.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sarah Watson
- Job title
- Principal Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01724 408460
- Additional information
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