Principal Practitioner Psychologist

3 weeks ago


Peterborough, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Part time 30 hours / salary pro rata

To support the Consultant Psychologist in leading a team of clinical and applied psychologists across CPFT’s adult mental health inpatient pathway; wards and their associated CRHT (crisis resolution home treatment) teams. To deputise as required for the Consultant Psychologist.

To support the Consultant Psychologist to ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical psychology service to adults admitted to CPFT adult mental health in-patient wards and CRHT.

To provide local (The Cavell Centre) leadership for in-patient psychology; including professional supervision/management responsibilities for psychologists - recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs. (To be based at The Cavell Centre, Peterborough)

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.

To act as a highly specialist resource for the wider professional community (CPFT and partner agencies).
- 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 and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales.
- To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental and/or health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- 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.
- To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, within the pathway, CPFT and partner organisations, contributing directly to the analysis of clients’ problems and disorders to ensure accurate formulations.
- To ensure that all members of the wider clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients, through the provision of advice, consultation and clinical supervision for psychological interventions.

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.

**Please note**:
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.

This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.



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