Assistant Psychologist
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Bretton Gate, Peterborough, PE3 9GZView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
21 October 2026
2 days leftJob description
This is a great opportunity to work within our inpatient mental health psychology service and to work alongside psychologists, psychiatrists, junior d...
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of adults with a mental health diagnosis. Working across all sectors of care providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the Team's policies and procedures.
To assist in clinically-related administration, conducting audits, collection of data and statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
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 If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.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.uk
Education/Qualifications
Essential: - An upper-second class honours degree or higher in psychology.; - Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Desirable: - A Master's degree and/or enrolled in a Master's course recognised by the British Psychological Society.
Other
Essential: - Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.; - Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, responsible
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users.
- Capable of working effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the work (clinical, research).
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems and other disabilities.
- Ability to communicate (orally and in writing) highly complex, highly clinically sensitive and condition-related information to patients, families and other professionals.
- Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of often highly emotive and distressing problems.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge, underpinned by theory, to a mental health context.
- Ability to adapt style and/or intervention strategies to meet the challenges of complex and highly sensitive situations.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of ethical and professional standards.
Desirable: - Knowledge of the literature on psychosis.; - Knowledge of the literature pertaining to personality disorder.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties.
- Experience of delivering psychologically informed groups.
- Practical working knowledge of at least one relevant psychological approach e.g. CBT.
Desirable
- Experience of working in inpatient mental health settings.
- Experience of completing risk assessments.
- Experience of working with patients with cognitive difficulties.
- Experience of psychometric testing, scoring and report writing.
- Experience of working with challenging behaviour.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
7 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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