Developmental​/Clinical Psychologist - Children's Com Nursing Service

Developmental / Clinical Psychologist – Children's Community Nursing Service

Closing date: 28 January 2026

Band: 7 – 8a (Band 8a if relevant skills)

Opportunity to join our team to offer high‑quality clinical psychology service within the children's community nursing service.

You will work alongside our Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide psychological support and intervention for parents, children and YP with a life‑limiting condition, their families and staff within the team.

The Children's Community Nursing Team is community‑based; travel across the county will be needed for this role.

• Provide clinical psychology service to clients and their families within the Children's Community Nursing (CCN) Service, with a diagnosis of life‑limiting condition, and to staff.
• Exercise responsibility and autonomy for the treatment and discharge of clients managed as a psychologically based care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with referral agent and others involved with care on a regular basis.
• Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and complex historical and developmental factors that have shaped the individual family or group.
• Implement a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams, employing and synthesising different explanatory models, adjusting and refining formulations, maintaining provisional hypotheses.

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital‑based care to improve people's physical and mental health and provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and matter to us. As part of the team, you'll support the health and wellbeing of people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust, including doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, community clinics and bases, and some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon, so we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer and during other holidays many people choose to visit the area, increasing the number of people who use our services.

For a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role, please see supporting documents.

• Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical counselling psychology
• Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of undertaking training in supervision
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Managerial or supervisory responsibilities

• Skills in training preparation and delivery to a wide range of staff groups
• Good organisational skills
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups

• Experience as a psychologist, working with children in either clinical or community settings
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust