Specialist Psychotherapist

The Cambian Group; Hereford; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cambian Group is recruiting for a clinical psychologist to join the in-house team supporting young people aged 10-18 with complex interpersonal, emotional and behavioural needs at Branas Isaf. You will deliver specialist psychological services and contribute to service development within an integrated care setting.

Key duties include psychometric and risk assessment, delivering individual and group-based interventions (including DBT), and timely reporting for MDT meetings, with some

Responsibilities

• Psychometric and risk assessment.
• Develop and deliver individual and group-based interventions (including DBT).
• Prepare written assessments/reports and contribute to MDT meetings.

Job description

£49,387 to £49,387 per year, Competitive

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

04/12/2026

About this job

ROLE OF DEPARTMENT The clinical team work within the wider integrated team of professionals at Branas Isaf, applying psychological knowledge and expertise to service users and professionals within the group (e.g. education and care staff). Primarily, the clinical team support children and young males aged 10-18 who present with a number of complex interpersonal, emotional and behavioural issues a number of the young people within our care have experienced significant trauma.

The clinical team are responsible for: Providing a specialist psychology service for all clients of the service.

Providing psychologically informed consultation to teams, training and assisting with service development.

Conducting psychometric and risk assessment and developing formulations.

Providing and evaluating individual and group-based interventions (including Dialectical Behavioural Therapy). Providing specialist psychological research expertise to the service.

To contribute to psychological assessment and formulation of individuals and groups, for example through direct observation, psychometric testing, semi-structured interviews and writing appropriate reports.

To provide individually tailored psychological interventions to meet the needs of allocated clients.

To support the integrated team to implement programmes arising from such assessment and individually tailored psychological interventions.

To provide written assessments/reports in a timely manner and/or contribute to MDT reports and attend meetings as required.

To monitor and evaluate programmes and advise managers when problems and difficulties arise.

To be actively involved in the weekly Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) consult team meetings, DBT skills group and contribute to monitoring fidelity to the treatment model.

To contribute to the management of risk with the wider integrated team.

To liaise with Registered Managers, education staff and other members of the multi-agency team, including external professionals.

To represent the clinical team within external and in-house meetings (where appropriate). To engage flexibly with clients and other members of the integrated team at Branas Isaf, families and multi-agency team to promote constructive working relationships.

This may include out of normal hours work.

Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).