Applied Psychologist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an Applied Psychologist to join our mental health services across Rotherham and Doncaster and contribute to making a meaningful impact on the lives of older people and their families. We welcome applications from those at band 7 (or due to be qualified) as this is a preceptorship role with scope to progress to 8a over time.

The post provides an opportunity to develop a broad range of skills within both community-based multidisciplinary teams and inpatient services. Candidates must be qualified psychologists registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. This post offers the successful candidate the opportunity to develop a range of skills as the role is split between settings, with time spent in a Older Person's Community Mental Health Team, contributing to wider CMHTs across Doncaster through a psychology hub, and working within an inpatient service for acute mental health problems and dementia.

Responsibilities include delivering specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments and interventions across both care environments. Suitable candidates should be a suitably qualified psychologist and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. We are keen to hear from anyone who has a passion for working in a trauma informed way with older people experiencing complex mental health challenges and/or neurodegenerative conditions, and has a collaborative, team-orientated approach.

Main duties of the job Deliver trauma-informed and evidence-based interventions, consultations, and psychological and neuro-psychological assessments.

Provide psychological input to multi-agency risk management / treatment plans.

Offer consultation, supervision, and training to colleagues and external agencies to promote psychological understanding.

Contribute to service delivery, development and quality improvement initiatives.

About us 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 dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.

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: find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website: are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on You Tube to find out more: main terms and conditions of service can be found here:https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./tchandbook

Details

Date posted
13 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 7

Salary
49,387 to 64,750 a year

per annum

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time,

Flexible working

Reference number
376-DCGM-0291-BJob locations

Tickhill Road Hospital Weston RoadDoncasterDN4 8QN
United Kingdom Job description

Job 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
Job description
Job 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

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, e.g., outpatient, community, inpatient etc.

Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings/teams.

Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment.

Demonstrate further specialist training/experience working as an applied psychologist

Ability to contain and work with organisational stress, and to hold the stress of others.

Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies

Desirable

Experience of providing training to a range of stakeholders

Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field…