Clinical Specialist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 15
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This secondment opportunity is for a Clinical Specialist within the Post Incident Response Service, part of the Trauma and Resilience Service. The role involves providing 1:1 and group support to staff following challenging incidents like discrimination or safety issues. The successful candidate will also support leadership in understanding incident impacts and contribute to staff wellbeing initiatives. This position offers development in consultancy skills and access to further training.
Essential criteria
- Clinical Psychology: Post-graduate training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist: Post-graduate training. Registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council or Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Social worker: postgraduate training
- Mental health nursing: postgraduate training.
- Occupational Therapist: postgraduate training
- Hold a core professional qualification as a Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Social worker, Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist within a designated service including a wide variety of client groups
- Experience of holding responsibility within a defined professional role, including care coordination, leadership, or equivalent responsibilities
- Demonstrable interest in staff wellbeing, trauma-informed practice, or organisational dynamics
- Professional liaison and joint working skills with multi-agencies
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision
- Research and development
- Active participation in quality and service improvement initiatives
- Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
- Risk assessment, Safeguarding procedures and Trauma Informed Approaches
- Clinical experience of complex trauma
Desirable criteria
- Clinical governance/involvement in the systems that healthcare organisations use to continuously improve quality.
- Awareness of psychological models of distress as relevant to systems of work
- Communicate and receive complex, emotive, sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Undertake work and liaise with multiple clinical and non-clinical systems
- Ability to develop and foster a consultative stance
- Provide effective teaching and training with leaders, managers and supervisors and teams when required
- Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for staff exposed to highly distressing situations
- Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
- Compliant with Mandatory Training
- Demonstrate effective keyboard skills
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional training settings.
- Clinical Psychology: Post-graduate training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist: Post-graduate training. Registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council or Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Social worker: postgraduate training
- Mental health nursing: postgraduate training.
- Occupational Therapist: postgraduate training
- Hold a core professional qualification as a Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Social worker, Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist within a designated service including a wide variety of client groups
- Experience of holding responsibility within a defined professional role, including care coordination, leadership, or equivalent responsibilities
- Demonstrable interest in staff wellbeing, trauma-informed practice, or organisational dynamics
- Professional liaison and joint working skills with multi-agencies
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision
- Research and development
- Active participation in quality and service improvement initiatives
- Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
- Risk assessment, Safeguarding procedures and Trauma Informed Approaches
- Clinical experience of complex trauma
- Clinical governance/involvement in the systems that healthcare organisations use to continuously improve quality.
- Awareness of psychological models of distress as relevant to systems of work
- Communicate and receive complex, emotive, sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Undertake work and liaise with multiple clinical and non-clinical systems
- Ability to develop and foster a consultative stance
- Provide effective teaching and training with leaders, managers and supervisors and teams when required
- Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for staff exposed to highly distressing situations
- Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
- Compliant with Mandatory Training
- Demonstrate effective keyboard skills
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional training settings.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
Clinical Specialist
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
Post Incident Response Service Opportunity -Expression of Interest:
The RDaSH Post Incident Response Service is part of the Trauma and Resilience Service within the Psychological Professions and Therapies Care Group.
Expressions of interest are being sought in the first instance from colleagues currently working in a band 7 or above position who are passionate about advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion within the NHS.
Role Overview:
o Position: Secondment Opportunity, Agenda for Change Band 7.
o Time Commitment: 2 days (15 hours per week)
o Purpose: To work alongside the existing Post Incident Response Service team to support members of staff and leadership following challenging incidents and events in the workplace.
o Offers opportunities for the successful candidate to develop foundational consultancy skills whilst being supported to access further qualifications and training in this area.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
o Provide 1:1 and group support to staff following incidents such as:
o Discrimination
o Patient or staff safety incidents
o Cumulative effects of organisational change, loss, or other challenging events
o Support leadership to understand the impact of these incidents, including recognising the ripple
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