Clinical Psychologist

Integrated Care System; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in Cambridge is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions for patients in the hearing implant service. The ideal candidate will have a doctoral-level qualification, be registered with the HCPC, and demonstrate experience in assessment and treatment. This role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in specialist psychological assessment and formulation.
• Experience working with clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience working with adults with hearing loss.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments to patients referred to the service.
• Develop psychological formulations drawing on various data sources.
• Implement psychological treatment plans based on evidence-based methods.
• Provide consultation to other multidisciplinary professionals.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Communication skills

Complex problem-solving

Team collaboration

Education

Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology

Registered with the Health Care Professions Council

Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Tools

Neuropsychological tests

Psychological formulation tools

Job description

Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 18 August 2025

We are seeking a compassionate and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions to adults under the care of the hearing implant service (Emmeline Centre) and audiology department at CUH. You will work closely with the wider multidisciplinary team, contributing to the assessment pathway for hearing implants, decisions regarding elective surgery, and offering assessments, formulations and psychological interventions for psychological difficulties related to hearing impairment and hearing implant surgery. You will also work with patients being seen in the tinnitus clinic in cases where significant mental health conditions may be contributing to symptoms.

CPFT's Psychological Medicine Service includes Liaison Psychiatry and Clinical Health Psychology for both adults and children and their families. There are over fifty Clinical Psychologists working across Adult and Paediatric Psychology. Some of these posts are embedded with specialist teams, whilst others are part of the general services. Clinical Psychologists have a professional network within Psychological Medicine and are also part of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust's (CPFT) professional group. The service provides placements for the University of East Anglia's Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide psychological expertise in psychological medicine and service development and leadership. There is ample potential to collaborate with other relevant services, including our hearing implant paediatric psychology service. You will also be able to contribute to local, regional, and national initiatives and develop research opportunities as well as a long-term business case for funding.

You will be part of CPFT's Psychological Medicine Service which has expertise in a range of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). There are excellent opportunities to develop skills and attend relevant CPD in clinical health psychology within this thriving and expanding service.

About us

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 andempowering 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.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. 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

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the psychological medicine service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, significant otherand others involved in the patients care.

To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors as well as health needs and impact of health problems on the patient and wider system.

To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of hospital and community-based settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the patient, family, carers or group.To do this in the context of health and surgical interventions.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of patients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other multidisciplinary professionals, both within hospital and community settings, contributing directly to patients psychological formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across the designated area and agencies serving the patient group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence
• Registered with the Health Care Professions Council
• Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
• 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 the application of Clinical Psychology in different contexts
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of working within a psychological medicine setting
• Experience and interest in applying systemic approaches in relation to working in complex teams and organisations
• Experience of working with adults who have a hearing loss and supporting hearing related issues eg tinnitus, poor mental health, low self-esteem
• Experience of neuropsychological assessments, formulations and interventions with adults

Skills & Abilities

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgment skills
• Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning
• Planning and organising skills for caseload management
• Skills in self-management, including time-management
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Skills in providing consultation and support to other professional and non-professional groups or clinical team colleagues
• Advanced keyboard skills
• Able to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Skills or training in British sign language
• Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this patient group
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient groups and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• High Level Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health

Physical Requirements

• Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting

Other

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with patients
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from patients
• Able to contain and work with organisational stress
• Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations
• Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information
• Able to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice
• Good organisational skills
• Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum pro rata