Job Description

Are you a skilled and compassionate Psychological Therapist seeking to make a real difference for individuals affected by complex trauma? We're looking for a Senior Practitioner Psychologist or CBT Therapist to join our Psychological Skills Service (PSS). This full-time post offers a great opportunity for a newly qualified therapist on a preceptorship pathway.



You'll complete trauma-informed assessments and formulations, helping service users and teams understand how past trauma shapes present challenges and guiding care planning. You'll hold a small caseload, delivering trauma-focused therapies including TF-CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, EMDR, and co-facilitating a schema therapy group.



Alongside direct clinical work, you'll provide leadership, training, supervision, and consultation to colleagues and external services. If you're interested in developing psychoeducational resources for staff, service users, and carers, you'll be a perfect fit.



Based in Peterborough, you'll join a close-knit team and collaborate with colleagues across Peterborough and Cambridge. The service is clinically led by an 8C psychologist, supporting a dynamic and compassionate team culture.



https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/the-psychological-skills-service-/



You w ill be c onducting comprehensive psychological assessments to produce a trauma informed formulation and treatment plan for service users who have experienced complex trauma . You will write reports and provide explanations to service users that help them to make sense of wh y they are struggling and why we are suggesting specific therapies. You will have a small caseload of service users and will be delivering therapies focused on trauma processing (TF-CBT and EMDR) and will have opportunities to co facilitate a schema therapy group.



You will also be providing leadership (leading on areas of the service such as our trauma stabilisation group), training, supervision, and consultancy to staff within the team and to other services who refer into this pathway. We are keen to continue to develop more psychoeducational materials that could be available for staff service users and carers so someone interested and experience in creating content would be a great fit for this post.



You will u ndertake risk assessments related to psychological interventions and manage risks in accordance with best practice guidelines and organizational policies.



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



Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.



Conduct comprehensive psychological assessments and develop individualized trauma informed treatment plans



Deliver evidence-based therapies for people who have complex PTSD and other difficulties relating to complex trauma (e.g. EMDR/ TF-CBT) using practice-based evidence w ith service users who have difficulties where the re i s not an established evidence base .



To provide individual and group supervision to more junior staff in the team and to staff in other services who also work with this population



To promote and support the implementation of Trauma Informed Care in all aspects and areas of their work



To supervise assistant psychologists and CAPs delivering group and structured short term interventions addressing gaps in services



D eliver therapeutic interventions in group and individual format in therapies including TF-CBT, EMDR, CFT, CAT, Schema and DBT.



Take autonomous responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service u sers



Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, adjusting treatment plans as necessary.



B e available to junior members of the team for ad hoc advice regarding risk, boundaries and responses to service users



Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide holistic care and support to service users.



Contribute to service development, research, and evaluation to enhance the quality of care provided, leading on specific working groups developing interventions or materials



To attend interface meetings with community teams, the IAPT and persona lity disorder services to help think through the best services to provide treatment and support to individuals



To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.



Risk



Undertake risk assessments related to psychological interventions and manage risks in accordance with best practice guidelines and organizational policies.



Ensure appropriate action is taken to mitigate risks and safeguard service users.