Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist | Cambridgeshire and NHS Foundation Trust

Role Overview

Join our new Assertive Outreach Team as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a) and help shape our service for adults with complex and enduring mental health needs. This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference for individuals who find it difficult to access traditional services, often with long histories of trauma and disengagement. You will be part of a dynamic, multi‑disciplinary team, delivering specialist psychological assessments and evidence‑based interventions that empower service users to achieve meaningful change.

If you’re passionate about trauma‑informed, person‑centred care and thrive on challenge, we want to hear from you. Be part of a team that values compassion, innovation, and evidence‑based practice, and help build a service that truly transforms lives.

You will be required to travel independently around the county and will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have the use of a vehicle. Public transport will not provide enough reliable transportation to enable you to meet the needs of the service. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

* DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website.

• Provide a qualified clinical psychology service according to an agreed job plan, delivering specialist assessment, formulation, and intervention for adults with severe and complex mental health needs.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines, contribute to the team’s policies and procedures, and support the psychological care of clients who may have experienced significant trauma and disengagement from services.
• Provide clinical supervision and leadership to other psychologists, support training and development of the wider team, and contribute to service evaluation and research.
• Work in partnership with clients, carers, and colleagues, promoting a psychologically informed approach to care, ensuring the highest standards of governance, safety, and patient experience.
• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the assertive outreach team based upon appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data.
• Develop psychological formulations of presenting problems that integrate assessment information within a coherent framework drawing upon psychological theory and evidence, incorporating interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
• Use psychological formulations to develop and implement plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, informing and leading the work of non‑psychology members of the team.
• Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining formulations and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under overall coordination of the Lead Psychologists.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service across all settings and agencies.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• Communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans.
• Monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni‑ and multidisciplinary care, providing appropriate reports.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer,…