# Principal Psychologist - Complications of Excessive Weight > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-psychologist-complications-of-excessive-weight/dd462443-aca0-43eb-b0a5-64fbb2dd3abf - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-psychologist-complications-of-excessive-weight/dd462443-aca0-43eb-b0a5-64fbb2dd3abf.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Cambridge - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Wednesday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-15T13:43:00.889Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/Cambridgeshire_Peterborough_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Health_Psychology/Health_Psychology-v7821075 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7821075?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are recruiting a Band 8a principal psychologist 0.6 WTE  for Complications of Excess Weight service CEW. Post will be based at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. The post forms part of the larger team for Psychological Medicine for Children Young People and Families, based within Addenbrookes Hospital and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to children, young people and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. Work is autonomous within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. Also, to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will be a member of the wider paediatric psychological medicine department and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.  This post is for 0.6 wte (3 days a week) and part of a wider pilot project for meeting the healthcare needs of this group of young people. The role requires assessment and delivery of care in the community; involving the patient, parents and family systems where there are complex social needs. The intervention level ranges from the specialist tertiary hospital based multidisciplinary team to community teams including community health teams; social care; education; wellbeing services and primary health care. The role will require a significant amount of liaising with a range of relevant agencies and teams to develop understanding of the current challenges and where relevant to make appropriate and timely referrals to appropriate local services. This post’s base is in Addenbrookes hospital however delivery of the  assessment and intervention is via Microsoft teams platform due to CEW service being a regional service. This is to ensure that young people and families from the whole region can access the service and we are working towards reducing inequalities of access. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. - To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the psychological medicine service, 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, family members and others involved in the client’s care. - To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors as well as health needs and impact of health problems on the family. - To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of hospital and community based settings. - To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. - To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group. To do this in the context of health and surgical interventions. - To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines. - To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other multidisciplinary professionals, both within hospital and community settings, contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. - To supervise qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists; as well as other professionals undertaking psychological work, as appropriate. - To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across the designated area and agencies serving the client group. - To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures. - To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the patient’s psychological needs, coordinating the work of others involved with psycho-social care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the patient, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions. - To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this. - To produce reports in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To maintain the required record keeping. - To assist in the management of the clinical psychology team caseload. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients. - Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients. - Able to contain and work with organisational stress. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings. - Experience of working with a wide variety of client 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/counselling psychology and/or systemic psychotherapy in different contexts. **Desirable** - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. - Experience of working within a paediatric medical setting - Experience of neuropsychological assessments, formulation and intervention with children ### Qualifications **Essential** - Either post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence. - Registered with the HCPC **Desirable** - Further training in systemic, paediatric neuropsychology and or trauma. - Further training in clinical supervision ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgment skills. - Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning. - Planning and organising skills for caseload management. **Desirable** - High Level Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. - Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. - Knowledge of the impact of physical health on children, young people and their families. ## Documents - [cew pp jdps (pdf, 392.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10130875) - [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) - [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.