Clinical Psychologist

Main area Health Psychology Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (within Monday to Friday, office hours, nominally) Job
-CYPF-7956068

Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital Town Cambridge Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/07/2026 23:59

We would like to recruit an enthusiastic, creative, values led Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to work alongside the Diabetes MDT at Addenbrookes Hospital. The role is a part of the wider Paediatric Psychological Medicine Team commissioned by and based  work to integrate Physical and Mental health and to treat the whole child, a central aspect of the future Cambridge Children’s Hospital.

The psychologist will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The psychologist will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Paediatric psychology service, using a range of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• Develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework drawing upon psychological theory and evidence and incorporating interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
• Develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods grounded in evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, managing and maintaining a caseload in line with service guidelines.
• 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 for all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, providing advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
• Act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging reviews as required, and communicating effectively with the client, their family and all others involved in the network of care, monitoring progress during multidisciplinary interventions.
• Communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
• Monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, providing appropriate reports.
• Produce reports on clients, in a timely…