Higher Assistant Psychologist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 Annual Secure allowance £1446 to be paid |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 September 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB21 5EF |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7410709/310-ASMH-7410709 |
Summary
**12-month Fixed-Term post**
Are you a motivated, compassionate, and experienced individual seeking a rewarding and dynamic role? Then join our dedicated, diverse team on George Mackenzie House, where you’ll make a real difference in the lives of individuals on their journey to recovery.
George Mackenzie House is the only NHS specialist provider of secure services within the area, offering a supportive and collaborative environment where patient-centered care is at the heart of everything we do. Our secure unit provides a safe and therapeutic environment for individuals with complex needs.
As a Higher Assistant Psychologist here, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high quality, compassionate care, working collaboratively with the MDT in implementation of personalize treatment plans. Support patients in a holistic manner on their recovery journey, use your clinical expertise to contribute to a therapeutic environment and champion compassionate patient-focused approach.
The ideal candidate should have a strong team work ethic, positive can-do attitude, strong communication skills, sense of accountability and responsibility, accompanied by resilience and an ability to work under pressure at times. A good sense of humour is also valued.
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users within the service, across all sectors of care.
Undertake clinically supervised work with clients on a one to one and group basis delivering psychological interventions.
Under supervision, plan, organises and teach on a variety of psycho-educational courses.
Working independently according to a plan agreed with qualified psychologists and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Undertaking R&D activities under the supervision of responsible Psychologist or others: To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and or research projects, teaching and project work.
To support delivery of therapeutic interventions and coordination (group and 1:1).
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.
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.
To support the provision of standardised psychological assessment of service users applying psychological including neuropsychological, tests, self-report measures, rating scales, with clients, family members and others involved in the service users care.
To support care provision of clients, through the provision of psychological therapies under the supervision of qualified Clinical/Forensic Psychology Colleagues.
To monitor and evaluate progress, refining interventions and necessary under supervision. To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and or management of service users’ problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist in forensic setting.
To assist in the development, coordination, running and evaluation of therapeutic groups.
To work with other staff to assess and review service users care in preparation for multidisciplinary treatment reviews.
To support development and updates of routine outcome measures.
To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, across all settings where care takes place.
To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.
To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of patients.
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Sep 2025