Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or EMDR therapist
Job in
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1, England, UK
Listing for:
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-03-13
Job specializations:
-
Healthcare
Mental Health, Psychology
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 GBP Yearly
GBP
80000.00
100000.00
YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position Overview
We are excited to offer this opportunity for a clinical/counselling psychologist or EMDR therapist to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service. We are a secondary care multi‑disciplinary service with an innovative and expanding therapy team, working with women with severe or complex mental health needs who are pregnant or have a child under one. This role will work across the north of the county covering Peterborough, Huntingdon and Fenland.
We operate hybrid working and your office base can be one of our four clinical hubs across the county (Cambridge, Peterborough, Huntingdon or Wisbech). Travel across the county is required, but compensated in line with NHS terms. Perinatal Mental Health is a growing specialty and provides opportunity for you to develop specialist skills. You will provide therapeutic interventions, including individual, group and dyadic work between parent and infant.
Responsibilities
Working with mothers, babies and other family members and other team members to provide specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological test, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations 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 assist the Perinatal Mental Health Service team in communicating difficult, complex and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed to mothers and families.To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence‑based psychological interventions for users of the Perinatal Mental Health Service in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.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 hospital and inter‑agency policies and procedures.To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non‑statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.To attend and contribute to appropriate multi‑disciplinary and psychology meetings.To offer a systemic, reflective and psychological perspective within the team around our understanding of families as well as team and organisational dynamics.To significantly contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the psychological services aspect of the perinatal mental health pathway, operational policies and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high‑quality care.Travel & Vehicle Requirements
- Full UK driving licence and own vehicle. Public transport is not acceptable as it would not allow meeting service needs.
- DVLA has reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries; please confirm you meet the criteria during application.
- Independent travel around the county is required, meeting strict time deadlines.
Training, Supervision and Development
Your post will enable you to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice. You will be required to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and…
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