Job overview

Specialist Nurse Practitioner – Relational & Emotional Difficulties Service (REDS)

Are you a reflective, compassionate, and highly motivated nurse who thrives on building meaningful therapeutic relationships? Do you enjoy working collaboratively across systems to support people with complex emotional needs? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We are seeking a Specialist Nurse Practitioner to join the Relational and Emotional Difficulties Service (REDS)—a psychologically led pathway, sat within the Personality Disorder Pathway, supporting individuals in primary care who experience significant challenges with emotional regulation and relationships. Many of the people we work with present with traits or a diagnosis of personality disorder, typically of moderate severity.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to work at the interface of primary care and specialist psychological services, shaping how the system responds to people with complex emotional needs. You’ll be part of a warm, reflective, and forward‑thinking team that values curiosity, compassion, and high‑quality care.

Main duties of the job

About the Service

REDS is a dynamic, multidisciplinary team comprising psychologists, psychological therapists, Assistant Psychologists, Specialist Liaison Nurses, and dedicated support staff. We work in partnership with CPSL MIND, who co-facilitate a number of our treatment groups. We work closely with the Personality Disorder Community Service, ensuring a coherent and compassionate approach across the system.

In this role, you will be embedded within the Cambridge Primary Care Network, working across 22 GP practices. You’ll become a trusted link between primary care and REDS, helping to ensure that people with complex emotional needs receive thoughtful, well‑coordinated support.

About You

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Confident and knowledgeable in working with personality disorder and complex emotional needs.
• Skilled at prioritising and managing a varied workload across multiple sites (this is a hybrid role).
• Thoughtful, collaborative, and committed to psychologically informed practice.
• Keen to contribute to service development and to be an active voice within a passionate, supportive team.

Working for our organisation

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 a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include 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, research and development.

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

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk