Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm)
- Job ref
- 310-MASMH-7943133
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fulbourn Hospital
- Town
- Fulbourn, Cambridge
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist - Crisis Team
Band 7
Job overview
Are you the experienced Clinical Psychologist we're looking for?
You'll be a key member of the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team [CRHTT] Cambridge working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people who might otherwise need admission to an acute psychiatric unit. You'll also support patients who have been in hospital and are ready for early discharge.
This post is appointed at Band 7 with preceptorship to Band 8a available.
Main duties of the job
- Under the overall co-ordination of the Consultant and Principal Clinical Psychologists, to provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to patients of the South Crisis and Home Treatment Teams;
- Providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention;
- To work with patients in crisis and their carers who at times are experiencing high levels of distress and some of whom may become challenging both verbally and physically;
- Providing advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other carers;
- Providing supervision to psychology staff, including assistants and trainees, and to other CRHT staff
- Contributing to the training and supervision of non-psychologist staff in psychological interventions; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- To work with patients within their own homes and other community and NHS venues. At times there will be lone working in these environments, where there is an expectation to follow the relevant safety protocols.
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 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 underrepresented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. To provide psychological assessments of patients referred to the Crisis and Home Treatment Team (CRHT) based upon 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 patients, family members and others
2. To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations integrating information from a range of sources and to communicate these with colleagues to inform care plans (as above)
3. To develop and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, working in a collaborative way
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the supervising Clinical Psychologist and CRHT leadership team
7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service
9. To develop links with the treatment wards (Mulberry 1 & 2) on a case-by-case basis in order to support the consistent provision of care through the acute pathway
10. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological understanding of risk assessment and management, in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with people experiencing a range of mental health symptoms and their families
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of mental health
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management
- Ability to deliver evidence based therapies, including CBT for a range of presentations
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning
- Planning and organising skills for caseload management
- Skills in self-management, including time-management
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to patients, their colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of this patient group
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised, evidence based psychological therapies in specific groups (e.g. personality disorders, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- Ability to deliver family interventions
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and its implications for clinical and professional practice
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to tolerate sitting for extended periods.
- Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sophie Price
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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