Assistant Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
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Role summary
This role offers a great opportunity to work within an inpatient mental health psychology service, supporting adults with mental health diagnoses. The post-holder will deliver psychological interventions, both individually and in groups, under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist. Responsibilities include contributing to psychological assessments, supporting formulation work, and facilitating psychoeducational groups. The role requires excellent communication and organisational skills, and a commitment to patient recovery.
Essential criteria
- An upper second-class honours degree in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
Desirable criteria
- A Master's degree and/or enrolled in a Master's course recognised by the British Psychological Society.
- 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.
- 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.
- Knowledge & Understanding
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, responsible.
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users
- Able to contain and work with high levels of organisational stress.
- Capacity for frequent extended periods of intense concentration in a context of therapeutic settings.
- Capable of working effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Accurate and attentive to detail.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the work (clinical, research).
- Ability to undertake all necessary statutory and mandatory training required.
- Ability to work with an appropriate degree of autonomy but knowing when to ask for supervision.
- Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.
- Skills & Abilities
- 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 liaise with clinical and academic teams.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Good organisational and time managements skills
- Ability to maintain a high degree of ethical and professional standards.
- Ability to recognise limits of competence and seek support and supervision when needed.
- Knowledge of the literature on psychosis
- Knowledge of the literature pertaining to personality disorder
- Education / Qualifications
- An upper second-class honours degree in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
- A Master's degree and/or enrolled in a Master's course recognised by the British Psychological Society.
- 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.
- 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.
- Knowledge & Understanding
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, responsible.
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users
- Able to contain and work with high levels of organisational stress.
- Capacity for frequent extended periods of intense concentration in a context of therapeutic settings.
- Capable of working effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Accurate and attentive to detail.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the work (clinical, research).
- Ability to undertake all necessa
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
This is a great opportunity to work within our inpatient mental health psychology service alongside psychologists, psychiatrists, resident doctors, OTs, nurses, social workers and physiotherapists.
Our innovative Adult Mental Health acute wards comprise two Admission & Treatment wards and a Recovery ward. 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.
The post-holder will provide support to adults with a mental health diagnosis. Therapy will be provided as part of the MDT approach, ensuring a personalised, client-centred focus on individual goals and functional outcomes. There will also be opportunities to work indirectly supporting the wider team to think and work psychologically.
The post-holder will deliver different forms of psychological interventions in either an individual or group setting. The post-holder will be based at Fulbourn Hospital in Cambridge.
Main duties of the job
Working under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, you will support the delivery of psychological services across acute adult inpatient wards. Responsibilities include contributing to psychological assessments,
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