Consultant Clinical Psychologist-Psychological Medicine Service-IBPS
Band 8c
Main area Psychological Medicine Grade Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 15 hours per week Job ref 310-MASMH-6996421
Site Addenbrooke's Hospital Town Cambridge Salary £74,290 - £85,601 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 27/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are seeking a compassionate and enthusiastic Consultant Clinical Psychologist with experience in psychological medicine to lead on and develop the provision of psychological expertise to people infected and affected by having received infected blood products. This will include families and loved ones.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and provide strategic vision on the psychological provision of this service, with dedicated 8B Clinical Psychology and Navigator roles. We are looking to recruit a motivated and experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead on the co-production with relevant stakeholders, including experts by experience, third sector organisations, and relevant local and national NHS services. The service is regional to the East of England but is part of a national service led by The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This permanent post is very much needed by people infected and affected who deserve the provision of an outstanding psychological service. The post holder will be part of a psychologically minded and highly supportive multidisciplinary team, keen to develop services and collaborate on research and service development.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide psychological expertise in psychological medicine, service development, and leadership. There is ample potential to collaborate with other relevant services, contribute to local, regional, and national initiatives, and develop research opportunities.
You will be part of CPFT’s Psychological Medicine Service which has expertise in a range of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). There are excellent opportunities to develop skills and attend relevant CPD in clinical health psychology within this thriving and expanding service.
CPFT’s Psychological Medicine Service includes Liaison Psychiatry and Clinical Health Psychology for both adults and children and their families. There are over fifty Clinical Psychologists working across Adult and Paediatric Psychology. Some of these posts are embedded with specialist teams, whilst others are part of the general services. Clinical Psychologists have a professional network within Psychological Medicine and are also part of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust’s (CPFT) professional group. The service provides placements for the University of East Anglia’s Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also within the community. These services include children's, adult, and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research, and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
* To provide leadership and strategic development working collaboratively with people with lived experience, other NHS and non-NHS relevant stakeholders, and the Professional Lead for Psychological Medicine-Adult Psychology.
* To provide specialist psychological assessments of people referred to the service 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, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with the referred person, family members, and others.
* To develop psychological formulations 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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
* Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS).
* Training in clinical health psychology.
Experience
* Experience of working with people with physical health conditions.
* Experience of working in physical health care and in an acute hospital setting.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment, across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* Substantial experience of working in mental health settings.
* Experience of teaching/training and clinical supervision.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course, and the range of clinical severity.
* Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the delivery of psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience in participation of service modelling including clinical and staffing plans, bid writing, translating national guidance into local systems.
* Experience of working at a senior management level, leading, and developing effective and responsive clinical services across a range of provision.
Skills & Abilities
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and treatment.
* Management of situations frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
* Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning. Planning and organising skills for caseload management. Skills in self-management, including time management.
* Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Demonstrates ability to plan and implement high levels of clinical governance and service evaluation.
* Research and Audit skills to evidence the efficacy of specialist interventions, and to evaluate patient experience including the development of appropriate outcome measures for the service.
* Advanced IT and keyboard skills.
* Publications/research experience.
* Experience of leading and completing quality improvement initiatives that engage a diverse range of stakeholders and result in measurable improvement to patient care using QI methodology.
* Expert knowledge of Clinical Health Psychology.
* Knowledge of relevant NHS structures, processes, and policies. Capacity to interpret & communicate complex policies to others, particularly in respect of implications for meeting psychological components of care. Able to effectively implement same and use as basis for strategic planning across one or more organisations.
* High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies relevant to this area.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of Clinical Psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
* Formal training in supervision of other Clinical Psychologists.
* Specialist knowledge of working with this client group.
* Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of this service user group.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group and the setting, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
Other
* Positive approach to older people.
* Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
* Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
* Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health, and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research.
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity, and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
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