The Data Management Skills Support Initiative (DaMSSI) has drawn together a range of short career profiles to illustrate the relevance of data management skills to four graduate professions represented by training projects of the JISC Managing Research Data programme 2009-13. These professions are: conservator; social science researcher; clinical psychologist and archaeologist. In addition a fifth profile describes the role of data manager. Each profile demonstrates how the value of data management skills learned alongside other research skills during graduate and postgraduate study contributes to and underpins high-quality professional performance. DaMSSI has developed this career profile for describing the work of clinical psychologists, to help raise awareness about this profession.