Practitioner Psychologist CUH Urogynaecology Mesh Service

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Cambridge is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to work in the Urogynaecology Outpatients Service. This role involves providing specialized psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions for patients with mesh complications. Candidates should have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and experience working within a multi-disciplinary team. The position offers a part-time schedule with opportunities for further clinical practice development and collaboration at regional and national levels.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological assessments and interventions.
• Ability to develop treatment plans based on complex data.
• Strong understanding of psychological theories and models.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments for service clients.
• Develop and implement psychological treatment plans.
• Support the multi-disciplinary team with training and consultancy.
• Communicate complex information to clients and families.

Skills

Psychological assessments

Interpersonal skills

Risk assessment

Team collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a post working in CUH’s Urogynaecology Outpatients Service 2.5 days a week. This is an established role contributing to the multi-disciplinary team management of women, (aged 16 years and above) with mesh complications consequent to mesh insertion vaginally or abdominally for urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse. There are nine Mesh Services nationally and strong links with other services will be developed.

They will provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions for the Mesh Service, as well as providing expertise in service, pathway development and evaluation.

There would also be the opportunity to contribute at a regional and national level to good clinical practice and the evidence base for this specialist area. They will also supervise the psychological practitioners working in Urology as well as providing psychological expertise and consultancy to the Mesh Service Multi-disciplinary Team and Urology service.

The post holder will work closely with the mesh MDT which includes the Reconstructive Urology team composed of 3 Urological Consultants, a Specialist Registrar, and a Nurse Specialist. They will also work closely with the Urogynaecology team of 4 Consultant Urogynaecology, a Plastic Surgeon, Consultant Radiologist, and a Colorectal Surgeon (and all their respective Nurse Specialists).

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.

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.

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

Working with CUH’s Mesh Service:

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To develop psychological formulations 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.
• To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
• 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.
• 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 individual, family, carers or group.
• To assist the medical team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed.
• To support the work of the multi-disciplinary team, providing training, supervision, and consultancy, as appropriate.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall coordination of the Professional Lead Clinical Psychologist.
• To provide a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients 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.
• To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.

This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025.