Practitioner Psychologist CUH Urogynaecology Mesh Service
| Posting date: | 19 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 December 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-1006 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. Working with CUHs Mesh Service: To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the 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 structuredobservations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To develop psychological formulations 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. To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. 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. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account boththeoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group. To assist the medical team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed. To support the work of the multi-disciplinary team, providing training, supervision, and consultancy, as appropriate. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment,and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the Professional Lead Clinical Psychologist. To provide a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings 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 communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.