Principal Clinical Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Peterborough, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Full time

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for working with people who have experienced severe and enduring mental health difficulties. This is an excellent career development opportunity to lead a team of psychologists and psychological practitioners working as part of a larger multi-disciplinary service. 

There is significant scope for the strategic development of models of service delivery, supporting delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions to this client group. You will have a clinical caseload as well as clear management and supervisory components to your role. You will also oversee a psychologically informed wider workforce in the MDT. This will also involve proactive engagement with third sector stakeholders.

There are ample training opportunities, and the team has benefited from recent training in CBTP, EMDR and the modular Feeling safe programme for persecutory delusions.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work with service users experiencing serious mental health problems and there is opportunity to develop and provide specialist clinical interventions with specific client groups to meet service needs. The post-holder will provide clinical supervision and leadership to other psychologists delivering specialist interventions; and where indicated provide direct and indirect clinical interventions to individuals and their families.

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service; to clients served by the locality team; to provide specialist psychological assessment including neuropsychology assessment; to provide NICE compliant specialist psychological therapy; to provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers; to lead on the training and on-going supervision of psychologists and non-psychologist staff in psychological interventions; to ensure appropriate governance arrangements for all psychological services within the team; to contribute to the initial expert assessment of clients newly referred to the team; to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Working for our organisation

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.



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