Practitioner Psychologist - Development post Band 7 to 8a

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Band 7 to 8a Psychologist for a development post at Peterborough City Hospital. The role involves providing specialist psychological assessments and therapy for children and their families, with a focus on supporting parity between physical and mental health. Candidates must have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and show experience in autonomous professional practice. The position offers a supportive environment for professional development and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing specialist psychological assessments and therapy.
• Ability to supervise and guide other psychologists and professionals.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with other care providers.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments based on complex data.
• Develop psychological formulations and implement treatment plans.
• Evaluate treatment options and manage a caseload according to guidelines.
• Supervise and mentor other psychologists and professionals involved in psychological care.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Therapeutic interventions

Autonomous professional responsibility

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

We would like to offer a Band 7 to 8a psychologist development post working at Peterborough City Hospital, within Cystic Fibrosis and General Paediatrics, helping to provide parity of esteem between Physical and Mental Health.

The post is offered at band 7 and involves the transition to a band 8a psychologist, with the expectation that you will have fulfilled and evidenced the competency requirements following a transitional period (usually 12‑18 months). You will be appointed a preceptor (supervising psychologist) who will support your development and hold regular reviews of progress, to ensure that you can produce a portfolio evidencing your ability to fulfil the requirements and competencies of a band 8a psychologist.

To provide 0.4 WTE Clinical Psychology post based at Peterborough City Hospital (PCH) working 0.2 into Cystic Fibrosis and 0.2 into General Paediatrics. The role provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to children and their families up to the age of 16 years both on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

The role delivers a service into PCH which is part of North West Anglia NHS Trust (NWAFT); however, the post is part of the larger team for Psychological Medicine for Children Young People + Families, largely based within Addenbrooke’s Hospital and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT).

The psychologist will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to children, young people and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non‑psychologist colleagues and to other, non‑professional carers. Work is autonomous within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. Also, to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

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 note that 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.

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

Responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s 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 family.
• To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s 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 individual, 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 clients 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 clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To supervise qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists; as well as other professionals undertaking psychological work, as appropriate.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across the designated area 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 act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the patient’s psychological needs, coordinating the work of others involved with psycho‑social care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the patient, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi‑disciplinary interventions.

This advert closes on Monday 8 Dec 2025.