Main area: Principal Clinical Psychologist
Grade Band: 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Weekdays between the hours of 9am to 5pm)
Job ref: 310-MASMH-6755608
Employer: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 169 London Road, Town: Peterborough
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/01/2025 23:59
Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and flexible Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist 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 the CAMEO North multidisciplinary team and will form part of the senior leadership team consisting of team managers, consultant psychiatrists, and advanced nurse practitioners. They will work with experienced clinical psychologists/CBTp therapists involved in engaging, assessing, supporting, and enhancing outcomes for individuals and families experiencing the first episode of psychosis across a broad range of community settings under the overall coordination of a Consultant Psychologist.
Main Duties of the Job
You will undertake a lead role in ensuring the systematic provision of a high-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 individualized, formulation-driven interventions within a CBT framework as part of the 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 and adapt your work across a range of clinical presentations, we would look forward to meeting you.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology, specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Evidence of post-doctoral training (CBTp, Early Intervention in Psychosis, EMDR, psychological interventions for trauma, Family intervention) or other areas of specialized psychological practice.
* Completion of ADOS training skills in the assessment of ASD.
Experience
* Experience of working with people experiencing psychotic symptoms and their families/working in an EIP setting.
* Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* In-depth experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary team setting.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts.
* Previous experience of delivering cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis clinical supervision.
* Experience of working with complex trauma, ASD, neuropsychological assessment.
* In-depth experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care including leadership skills.
Knowledge and Skills
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high-quality care and service provision.
* Knowledge of and ability to deliver CBTp and behavioral family therapy.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgment skills.
* Skills in individual and group work and in program planning. Planning and organizing skills for caseload management.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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.
* 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 behavior.
* 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.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, comorbid conditions).
* Knowledge of service improvement models and their application.
Personal Qualities
* Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
* Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users and carers.
* Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognizing when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling the formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with service users.
* Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
* Positive approach to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) including willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude to embrace new ways of working.
Other
* Positive approach to EIP.
* Recognize people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
* Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviors.
* Able to sit for long periods.
* Ability to travel independently across the county.
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 organization, 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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