Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A health and social care organization is seeking a qualified Psychologist to join the Liaison and Diversion Service in Peterborough. The role requires overseeing clinical work, conducting risk assessments, and providing supervision to junior staff. Strong candidates will have experience in mental health services and the ability to formulate treatment plans. This is a full-time position with flexibility based on service needs.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health services, preferably in liaison and diversion.
• Experience supervising junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of direct clinical therapeutic work.
• Provide clinical oversight and supervision to assistant psychologists.
• Undertake risk assessment and management of offenders.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

Qualified Psychologist with appropriate registration

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within CPFT for a qualified Psychologist to join the Liaison and Diversion Service. The successful candidate will be working with people who have received a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) by the court as a result of having committed low level offending and experiencing co-occurring mental health conditions across Cambridgeshire. This is a full time position which can be flexible within the needs of the service. The service delivers MHTRs for adults within the demographic area.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Responsibilities

• Hold their own caseload of direct clinical therapeutic work with service users and provide supervision to assistant psychologists completing structured assessments.
• Consider the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources to help the assistant determine suitability for the offender to be offered a MHTR and to commence a manualised psycho-educational treatment programme provided by the assistant psychologist.
• Undertake risk assessment and management of offenders prior to them commencing manualised treatment programmes with an assistant psychologist.
• Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge of offenders receiving manualised treatment under MHTRs, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions are communicated with the assistant psychologist providing the treatments.
• Offer regular clinical supervision to the assistant psychologists delivering the MHTR interventions; provide clinical oversight and guidance around assessment, formulation, treatment planning and delivery of the intervention.
• Contribute to wider service development, considering local needs and how the implementation of the MHTR service can be achieved across Cambridgeshire.
• Provide clinical expertise and supervision within the Liaison and Diversion Service to encourage a psychological approach in colleagues’ work and facilitate professional development, reflective capacity and safe delivery of services.
• Utilise research skills for audit, service development and research, particularly with respect to evaluating the MHTRs and monitoring outcomes for the interventions provided by the assistant psychologist.
• Provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to offenders’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
• Manage risk and improve outcomes for offenders by providing weekly supervision to an assistant psychologist who will be working with offenders to offer them a manualised treatment under MHTRs.
• To support the clinical lead in providing consultation and clinical expertise to colleagues in the Liaison and Diversion service to encourage a psychological approach in their work and to facilitate their professional development, reflective capacity and safe delivery of Liaison and Diversion Services.
• To formulate risk and clinical need in collaboration with team members and to formulate plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of offenders based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks of risk management, mental health, family systems and individual psychological functioning.
• To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about risk management and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental, and systemic processes that have shaped the offender.
• To provide clinical oversight and guidance of Assistant Psychologists’ work relating to assessments, formulations, treatment planning and delivery of care to service users.
• To refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Qualified Psychologist with appropriate registration and experience in mental health services, preferably within liaison and diversion or community-based settings.
• Experience supervising junior staff and providing clinical oversight for assessments, formulations and treatment planning.
• Ability to formulate risk and clinical need, and to develop treatment plans within conceptual frameworks of risk management and mental health.

This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep 2025