Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

Part Time - 34 Hours per week

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team. The team works with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability as well as providing assessment and treatment for young people with Autism and ADHD. The team provides mental health assessments and psychological therapies for co-morbid mental health disorders.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability and leadership skills, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure s post is open to qualified clinical psychologists with the right attributes and experience to enhance the team.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health issues then we want to hear from you. The post will be based in the Central Cambridgeshire area covering Huntingdonshire and Fenland.

Main duties of the jobTo provide a qualified, highly specialist psychology service to children and adolescents with a neurodevelopmental disorder.

To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to both professional colleagues and staff from other agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the Trust's and the neurodevelopmental pathway's policies and procedures.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

About us Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.ukDetails

Date posted
05 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 8aSalary
57,528 to 64,750 a year

per annum

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time,

Part-time

Reference number
310-MCYPF-8204528

Job locations

Newtown Centre Nursery RoadHuntingdonPE
29 3RJ
United Kingdom Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to the Neurodevelopmental team, 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 structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, their families and others involved in the clients care (including professionals from other agencies).

To individually formulate, plan, implement and evaluate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy, across a range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual children…