Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

WE WOULD WELCOME APPLICATIONS FROM CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO ARE IN THEIR FINAL YEAR OF DOCTORAL TRAINING.

We have an exciting opportunity for either a newly qualified band 7 clinical psychologist looking for a post with potential career progression or for an established band 8a clinical psychologist to join our team of psychologists within the Cambridge adult locality team.

We are located in the vibrant University City of Cambridge. The locality service provides high quality care to people aged 17 and above, who are experiencing the symptoms of moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

The service operates friendly and well established multi-disciplinary teams with a wide range of professionals contributing to the excellent care of the people that we support. Recovery principles are embedded in the work of the locality teams and we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be responsible for implementing psychological assessment, providing therapeutic interventions to people in the community and supporting the wider team to develop psychological understandings of people's difficulties through consultation, supervision and training.

The post-holder will be required to work collaboratively with colleagues, liaising with external care providers and statutory agencies to support people and their families on their journey to wellbeing.

Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. We encourage our psychologists to develop their skills and knowledge with CPD opportunities (including EMDR and tf-CBT). We believe that research is central to the development and maintenance of effective teams and interventions. Our psychologists have close links with the Doctoral Clinical Psychology course at the University of East Anglia and they routinely place their trainees within our service.

About us

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Job description

Job 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 locality team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, ratingscales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients 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.
• To use psychological formulations to develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, and to use these plans to inform and lead the work of non-psychology members of the team.
• 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.
• This includes responsibility for the delivery of psychologicalinterventions by all team members.
• 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 exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the Lead Psychologists.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings 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 communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
• 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 on clients, 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

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS/HCPC
• Registration as practitioner psychologist

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across range of settings
• Experience of working with people experiencing severe mood disorders and psychotic symptoms and their families
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups (lifespan/problems)
• Experience of application of clinical psychology in different contexts

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of working within multicultural framework

Skills

Essential

• Skills in use of complex methods of assessment, formulation and intervention
• Ability to deliver CBT to people suffering from affective disorders and psychotic disorders
• Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Willingness to be flexible, adaptable and innovative
• Planning and organising skills (caseload management)
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their colleagues both within and outside the ? Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.). ? High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies ? Ability to deliver Behavioural Family Therapy NHS.
• Advanced keyboard and computer skills
• Interpersonally calm and able to defuse situations
• Motivated towards professional development (strong CPD record)

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.)
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Ability to deliver Behavioural Family Therapy

Knowledge

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, psychological aspects of physical health difficulties, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and its implications for clinical and professional practice
• Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of the adult group.

Other

Essential

• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self care and monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
• Able to travel independently

Desirable

• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Union House

Cambridge

CB4 1PR

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