Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Main area Mental Health – Child and Adolescent Grade Band 8c Contract 15 months (Fixed-term end date 31/08/2027) Hours Part time – 18.75 hours per week Job ref 310-MCYPF-7996070-A

Site The Beacon Town Fulbourn, Cambridge Salary £79,504 – £91,609 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/07/2026 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and highly skilled Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join the Orthopaedic Psychological Support Team, a Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation (CPFT) Service on a secondment/fixed term contract. The postholder will join a dedicated team supporting children, young people, adults, families and staff affected by the orthopaedic incident and ongoing clinical review of the surgeon’s work.

The post will be initially based at the Beacon Centre, Fulbourn.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will play a central role in delivering psychologically informed support to people experiencing psychological distress relating to their healthcare experiences. The successful applicant will join a developing multidisciplinary pathway, contributing a compassionate, trauma informed and family centred response. The role will provide a highly specialist psychological service including direct clinical work, consultation to teams, psychological formulation, risk assessment, staff support and shaping the overall model of care to affected families. It will include management and clinical supervision of clinical, trainee and assistant psychologists in the service.

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.

The service is committed to ensuring the voices and experiences of patients and families remain central to ongoing learning, support and improvement.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a service focused on compassionate support, recovery, learning and rebuilding trust following an extremely difficult period for many families.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Working within highly specialised clinical areas, to provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological 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.
2. To formulate 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 care settings and in collaboration with the service user and their carers.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions at a level required for independent practice as recognised through eligibility for accreditation, or educational qualification.
4. To implement highly specialist psychological interventions for children, young people, 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 recognising national, divisional and trust‑wide standards of evidence based psychological therapy and best clinical care.
5. To make highly skilled evaluations and 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 or group.
6. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed as a psychologically based standard care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
7. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
8. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
10. To act as care co‑ordinator, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s needs following an evidence based stepped‑care model and incorporating the views of the service user in collaborative goal‑setting, co‑ordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging client’s care reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in care; and to monitor progress during the course of multi‑disciplinary interventions.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Post‑graduate doctoral level training in applied 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.
• Accredited or eligible for accreditation in the above psychological therapy by the relevant UK governing body, i.e. UKCP, HPC, BABCP, NMC
• Accredited clinical supervisor in the above psychological therapy
• Registered clinical supervisor
• Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Experience

• Substantial experience in relevant first profession.
• Substantial experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist in the specialty area as above including post qualification experience within Paediatric Clinical Psychology.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in‑patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co‑ordinator and also within the context of a multi‑disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of managing own case‑load following stepped‑care treatment guidelines and including service user views and collaborative goal‑setting.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision using highly developed expertise and skills in a range of
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre‑qualified psychological therapists in own area of therapeutic expertise
• Experience of multi‑professional management of teams or services within an acute setting.
• Experience of representing own profession in local policy forum.
• Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of undertaking service audit and development.
• Experience of involvement in service user initiatives.
• Experience of staff recruitment and performance management

Skills & Abilities

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and case management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
• Masters/Doctoral level knowledge of a psychological intervention and accompanying theoretical model including highly developed knowledge of lifespan development, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, generic therapeutic competencies, generic supervisor competencies.
• Knowledge of an additional psychological therapy and underlying theoretical foundation at a level to enable independent practice and the supervision of other’s practice.
• Knowledge of current, evidence based, stepped care models of care as detailed in NICE guidance.
• Knowledge of: o Typical and atypical child development including motor, social, play and language milestones o Risk-Assessment and Risk-management o Care-coordination o Safeguarding o Attachment and mentalisation o Reflective practice o Engagement with children and young people’s family and support networks
• Masters/Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex data analysis at a level enabling independent access to and interpretation of relevant scientific literature and national guidance drawing on relevant scientific literature
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessment and treatments, in a range of medical specialities.

Equal Opportunities

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 minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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