Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-GS17
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Educational Psychologist - Gender Services
Band 8b
Job overview
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust (CUH) is seeking a highly skilled and compassionate individual to join the new NHS Children and Young People's Gender Service (East of England) in the role of Senior/Principal Educational Psychologist (Band 8B – NHS Agenda for Change Scale).
As part of the Paediatrics Department at CUH but based in a newly refurbished community setting in Newmarket, the successful applicant will have extensive experience of delivering high quality, evidence-based assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people.
The post holder will provide assessments, as well as supervision, training, and consultation to staff. They will be a source of expertise in education and psychometrics to the MDT.
The service operates Monday-Friday. Full or part-time (minimum 3 days per week including Tuesdays and Wednesdays) considered.
If you are unsure whether you meet the essential criteria for this new post, please contact us for a conversation.
Main duties of the job
To work with managers and clinical leads, to ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality psycho-social service within the East of England Children and Young People's Gender Service. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of educational psychological practice within the Service. To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the supervision and support of all practitioner psychologists and unqualified staff within the Service. This also includes ensuring there are clear systems in place for effective outcome measurement, recruitment, professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs across the Service.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
All roles in the Trust include a mandatory 12-week training period. Therefore successful candidates are expected to have the Right to Work for a period of at least 6 months from the proposed start date. Immigration and Right to Work status will be discussed with successful candidates at conditional offer. CUH will not offer sponsorship to candidates that have applied for a fee waiver.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 20th September 2026
Interviews are due to be held on 30th September 2026
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Post-graduate doctorate in Educational Psychology (or equivalent), as accredited by the BPS.
- • HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- • Completion of further post qualification specialist relevant training, including training in the supervision of trainee practitioner psychologists.
- • Training in two or more distinct evidence-based psychological approaches and lifespan/developmental psychology.
Desirable criteria
- • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- • Post-qualification accreditation in evidence-based psychological approaches e.g. cognitive behaviour therapy, DNA-V/ACT, CFT, mindfulness, etc.
- • BABCP accredited
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice relevant to working with CYP with gender diversity through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning in a specialist area of practice, assessed by an experienced supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in an area of clinical practice relevant to CYP with gender diversity.
- • Evidence of having worked as a specialist under supervision in an area of clinical practice relevant to CYP with gender diversity.
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in an area of practice relevant to CYP with gender diversity.
- • Working as a qualified Educational Psychologist with children with physical health problems and/or with children/families and parents.
- • Experience of working with a wide range of psychological and comorbid presentations.
- • Experience of multi-agency working (e.g. with schools and other statutory and third sector organisations).
- • Experience of exercising responsibility for children and young people’s psychological care and treatment, both autonomously and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team, with other disciplines including medical and nursing.
- • Experience of providing supervision and consultation to other staff including psychologists.
- • Experience of teaching, training and/or professional supervision.
- • Experience of running groups for CYP and parents / carers.
- • Experience of leading quality improvement initiatives at a service or organisational level, including demonstratable impact on outcomes or service delivery.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with children and young people with long term health conditions.
- • Experience of working in acute hospital trusts.
- • Experience of working with children and young people with disordered eating and eating disorders.
- • Experience in working with children and young people with multiple physical, social and psychological problems.
- • Experience of conducting evaluation projects and research within health settings.
- • Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- • Experience of delivering reflective practice groups.
- • Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health.
- • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative methods.
- • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
- • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to parents and carers and staff exposed to distressing situations.
Desirable criteria
- • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological approaches for children and young people with long-term health conditions or psychological factors impacting medical treatment.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to children, young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- • Commitment to support the Trust’s Values.
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to Travel.
- • Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- • The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Together-safe, kind, excellent.
- • Actively promote and value equality, diversity and inclusion, treating others with dignity and respect.
- • Compliance with all Trust policies and procedures.
- • Evidence of working as an effective team member.
- • Demonstration of confidentiality.
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to work on days to suit the service.
- • Up to date immunisations are required (including TB, HepB).
- • Ability to move between a number of locations within a working day.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gender Service Lead
- Job title
- Gender Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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