We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and flexible Principal Clinical/ counselling psychologist to join to join our friendly, dynamic and busy early intervention services based in Cambridge and Peterborough.
As Principal Clinical psychologist for the Cameo North team you will be part of the psychological management team alongside a Principal Clinical psychologist in the Cameo South team and a Consultant Clinical psychologist (service wide) to assist with the oversight and delivery of the clinical, professional, and strategic aims of the service.
CAMEO is an award-winning CPFT Early Intervention in psychosis service offering an age inclusive service (14-65 years) across a three-year pathway. Cameo was established in 2002 and the service has had a significant impact on the development of the Early Intervention model across the UK and internationally. The successful applicant will be based in CAMEO North multidisciplinary team and will form part of the senior leadership team consisting of team mangers, consultant psychiatrists and advanced nurse practitioners. They will work with experienced clinical psychologists / CBTp therapists involved in the engaging, assessing, supporting and enhancing outcomes for individuals and families experiencing first episode of psychosis across a broad range of community settings under the overall co-ordination of a Consultant Psychologist.
You will undertake a lead role in ensuring the systematic provision of a highly quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the CAMEO service, across all sectors of care.
To carry out, supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists/therapists who provide psychologically based care and treatment in the Cameo North team.
The psychologist will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance and supervision of the psychological practice within the Cameo Service. This role will include psychological assessment and individualised, formulation-driven interventions within a CBT framework as part service user’s overall multi-disciplinary team care plan. Therapeutic interventions will be delivered in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention in Psychosis Services and across the whole caseload which will include individuals with At Risk Mental States and those experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis.
The post holder will receive supervision, professional support and guidance from the Consultant Clinical Psychologist who oversees the service. If you are a qualified and experienced CBT therapist / clinical psychologist with a proven ability to assertively engage therapeutically, ability to adapt your work across a range of clinical presentations, we would look forward to meeting you.
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.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
You will undertake a lead role in ensuring the systematic provision of a highly quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the CAMEO service, across all sectors of care.
To provide clinical leadership in the identification, assessment, treatment and evaluation of first episode psychosis (FEP) and At Risk Mental state (ARMS) cases in the CAMEO North team with particular emphasis on promoting an accessible, safe and effective service.
To carry out, supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists/therapists and other members of the team providing psychologically based care and treatment.
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 develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To provide 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 evaluate and make decisions about psychological treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are manged by psychologically based care plans.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jan 2025