Therapeutic Support Worker | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking an enthusiastic Therapeutic Support Worker to join their Psychological Skills Service in Huntingdon. This role is vital in delivering trauma-informed support and brief psychological interventions for individuals facing significant mental health challenges. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications, effective communication skills, and a commitment to compassionate care. A full UK driving licence is also required as the role involves travel. Competitive compensation and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact await you.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting individuals with mental health difficulties.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse clients.
• Understanding of trauma-informed care principles.

Responsibilities

• Complete discharge letters with training and supervision.
• Identify need for onward referrals to other services.
• Communicate verbally with clients, adapting skills to their needs.
• Establish and maintain relationships with clients and professionals.
• Assess client understanding and gain informed consent.
• Maintain a clinical caseload under supervision.
• Support the psychology team in developing materials.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings.

Skills

Compassionate

Motivational interviewing

Effective communication

Team collaboration

Education

Relevant degree or qualification in health and social care

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and compassionate therapeutic Support Worker to play a core part in delivering skills underpinned by brief psychological interventions within the relatively new Psychological Skills Service (PSS) Central in Huntingdon and Fenland.

The Psychological Skills Service is a Trauma informed service, acknowledging that, the majority of clients referred to the service have experienced some form of trauma in their lives.

The Psychological Skills Service (PSS) is a service for people who experience significant difficulties with their mental health, whilst also managing to keep themselves safe and relatively well without significant support from services.

We’re offering an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, motivated Therapeutic Support Worker to join the Psychological Skills Service (PSS). This role involves delivering trauma-informed formulation-driven support work and brief psychological and occupational interventions.

PSS supports individuals with significant mental health challenges who are able to maintain relative wellbeing without intensive service input. Many may have tried therapies like CBT in the past and found them less helpful than expected.

Please add in as part of your supporting statement an answer to the following question's; Give an example of a time you supported someone with mental health difficulties, who was difficult to engage. What did you do? What did you learn about yourself from this?

As a therapeutic support worker, you will fill an important position offering psychologically and occupationally informed support and psychological skills to a group of people previously described as “not ready” for psychological therapy.

In our service rather than exclude we think creatively about what type or level of therapy a person can use. The support work will be based on a psychological, trauma informed formulation that will guide how you work with the service user and help them achieve a variety of things including: physical safety and stability, learn skills to help with symptoms that affect them leaving the house/ interacting with others, teaching stabilization strategies, and strengthening important social and emotional resources. Work will be a mixture of face to face and online.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & 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

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

Responsibilities

• To complete discharge letters of interventions carried out (with training and supervision).
• To identify when clients need interventions from other services and initiate timely onward referral as indicated.
• To effectively communicate verbally with clients, carers and colleagues using motivational interviewing skills and adapting communication style when needed to engage clients and meet their needs. This may involve using skills to adapt strategies where clients have difficulties in communication eg. Hearing loss, diminished sight, cognitive impairment, or neurodiversity adaptations.
• To establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with colleagues, clients, carers and other health care professionals.
• To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and to work within a legal framework with clients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• To attend relevant external and internal courses to extend knowledge or gain relevant.
• To maintain a clinical caseload, under supervision.
• To assist the psychology team in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials, such as the development of treatment manuals and group interventions.
• To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
• To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.
• To participate in the service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025