# Assistant Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/13e10d42-5011-405e-9a59-c99eb828b048 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/13e10d42-5011-405e-9a59-c99eb828b048.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** CPFT at North Cambridgeshire Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Assistant psychologist - **Salary:** £32073.00 to £39043.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-21T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-07T13:28:14.738Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8350176 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8350176?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a great opportunity to work within our inpatient mental health psychology service and to work alongside psychologists, psychiatrists, junior doctors, OTs, nurses, social workers and physiotherapists, in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Our innovative Adult Mental Health acute wards comprise Admission, Treatment, Recovery and PICU ward as well as MOD patients. Our inpatient pathways are based on a model that admissions should be Necessary, Values Based and Appropriate and aim to work closely with the community services to facilitate discharge. Working within this unique acute care system enables you to: - Focus on developing specific skills and further develop expertise in assessment, treatment and supporting recovery. - Improve and enhance collaborative working across the acute care system, using psychological thinking to improve the understanding of the person. - Contribute to the reputation and image of our treatment system, resulting in an increased sense of pride in our place of work. The post-holder will provide support to adults with a mental health diagnosis. The therapy will be provided as a part of the multi-disciplinary team approach to optimise individual functional outcomes. The post-holder will deliver different forms of psychological interventions to patients recovering from an episode of mental health illness in either an individual or group setting. The post-holder will be based at The Cavell Centre, in Peterborough. ### Main duties of the job 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. - To provide a direct service using psychological intervention and assessment tools, under supervision of the Clinical Psychologist. - To support the Clinical Psychologists in preparation of team formulation sessions, i.e. completing file reviews and dissemination of formulation. - To facilitate group work, including psychoeducation, CBT. DBT and ACT informed sessions. This may include co-facilitating groups alongside other members of the MDT. - To facilitate individual psychological work, under the supervision of the Clinical Psychologist. - Where indicated to carry out Brief Psychological Interventions, including Anxiety Management, Behavioural Activation and Distress Tolerance. - To support completion of Cognitive Screening assessments and in some circumstances more detailed neuro-psychological assessments. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect. - Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude. ### 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. ### 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. ### 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. ### 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). ## Documents - [cpft values (pdf, 114.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1743) - [cpft benefits (pdf, 74.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2967) - [cpft accommodation (pdf, 713.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2805) - [cpft mindful employers (pdf, 51.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1744) - [assistant psychologist b5 - cavell (pdf, 368.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10675494) - [employee probation period guidance (pdf, 177.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3046) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.