Clinical Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist

Closing date: 20 July 2026. Permanent, Full Time. Interviews 28th July.

Join our psychology‑led team delivering mental health support across Sheffield educational settings as part of the ten year health plan.

Working alongside the Healthy Minds Mental Health Support Team Lead, you will help schools develop trauma‑informed, whole‑school approaches to wellbeing, coordinate support for vulnerable pupils, and provide consultation, training and reflective practice for staff. You will also contribute to the offer for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.

This role combines direct clinical work with system‑level change, supporting the application of psychological thinking across education.

You are (or will soon be) an HCPC‑registered Clinical Psychologist who thrives in collaborative, community‑based work. You are confident applying psychological theory in educational settings and committed to strengthening whole‑school mental health.

• Commitment to EMHP Supervision PGDip (University of Sheffield)
• Understanding of evidence‑based interventions, mental health assessment, child development, trauma‑informed practice, and systemic working

• Lead on supporting Senior Mental Health Leads in Sheffield schools to enhance whole‑school wellbeing offer
• Provide clinical supervision and case management for EMHPs and Assistant Psychologists
• Develop psychologically informed care plans for vulnerable children and young people
• Offer consultation, training, and reflective practice to school staff and MHST teams
• Deliver direct psychological work with children and young people
• Support service development and progress in collaboration with the Healthy Minds team

You will receive regular clinical and line management supervision from a senior Clinical Psychologist, plus access to multi‑agency peer supervision, training opportunities, and the University‑accredited EMHP supervision course.

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, accredited by the BPS
• Registration with HCPC as a clinical psychologist (or other domain title as agreed)
• Experience in clinical work with children and families with health‑care needs, including a single training placement
• Pre‑qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

• Specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people, and their families
• Working with a wide variety of child mental health and wellbeing problems across all age ranges and levels of clinical severity
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures within health, including risk management
• Experience working with schools and/or communities
• Teaching, training and/or supervision experience
• Application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Delivering and participating in reflective practice

• Complex psychological assessment, intervention and management techniques
• Excellent communication skills, including oral and written, for complex, technical and clinically sensitive information
• Consultation skills for other professional and non‑professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis
• Knowledge of legislation relating to the client group and mental health
• Linking psychological theory to practice
• Specialised psychological therapies knowledge (at least two)
• Systemic working with teams to promote psychological approaches

• Teaching and training others using a variety of multi‑media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional, academic settings and schools
• Clinical governance awareness and the ability to maintain practice under emotionally demanding circumstances
• Resilience and coping with the emotional demands of working directly with the school community
• Commitment to multidisciplinary team working within an educational setting
• Advocacy for the voice and participation of children and young people in the school environment
• Experience with in a multicultural framework
• Collaborative development of whole‑school interventions with school staff

The post requires a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

£49,387 to £56,515 a year (pro‑rata if part‑time)

Permanent

Full‑time, Part‑time

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust