Assistant Psychologist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £27,485 - £30,162 Per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Peterborough, PE1 1HF |
| Cwmni: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7451775/310-ASMH-7451775 |
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Fixed-term contract, full-time - 37.5 hours per week
We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Assistant Psychologist to join our psychological workforce in the Adult Locality Teams (ALTs) in North Cambridgeshire. We haveone 1.0 WTE (5 days) 12 month fixed-term Assistant Psychologist vacancy. This post is to cover the maternity leave of another staff member and cannot be extended beyond this fixed-term period. The post will be based in the two Peterborough Adult Locality Teams in the city of Peterborough.
The Adult Locality Teams provide high quality care to people aged 17-65 who are experiencing mental health difficulties in the moderate-to-severe range with additional concerns about safety or functional impairment. The service consists of supportive and well-established multi-disciplinary teams of healthcare professionals from a range of backgrounds. You will work with a team of approximately 10 psychology colleagues covering the geographical areas of Peterborough, Huntingdon and Fenland under the leadership of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
You will have access to a programme of training in the delivery of Brief Psychological Interventions from senior and experienced psychology colleagues. You will receive professional supervision from either a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
To provide a trauma-informed and formulation-driven psychological service to clients within the Adult Locality Teams.
This role includes working directly with clients.
We work closely with other services and are keen to continue to develop psychological interventions with specific client groups to meet the needs of the local population.
This role will also include supporting the work of the psychological workforce and the wider multi-disciplinary teams through activities such as collecting, analysing and presenting data relating to the activity of the psychology workforce, such as demand and capacity and clinical effectiveness.
You will work under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist and within professional guidelines of conduct and ethics and the overall framework of organisational policies and procedures.
Supporting and developing the psychological workforce is of upmost importance to us. We encourage our Assistant Psychologists to develop their skills and knowledge and seek to prepare them to progress to the next stages of their careers. We believe that research is central to the development and maintenance of effective teams and interventions. We have close links with the University of East Anglia's ClinPsyD programme.
It is recommended that you apply for the post as soon as possible as we may close the advert early if there are a high number of applicants. Thank you.
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 disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk.
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.
***Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the locality.***
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
The main duties of the post holder include:
1. The provision of brief psychological interventions under supervision of a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
2. Supporting the psychology team in developing individual and group intervention and training materials.
3. Collecting, analysing and presenting data relating to the activity of the psychology workforce, such as demand and capacity and clinical effectiveness.
4. Contributing to ongoing quality improvement, audit, evaluation and research activity.
5. Working under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist and within professional guidelines of conducts and ethics and the overall framework of organisational policies and procedures.
6. Gaining applied experience in this healthcare setting whilst assisting with the work of clinical supervisor, the activity of the psychological workforce and the wider multi-disciplinary service.
This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025