We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, Band 8B Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Intensive Support Team (IST) for adults with learning disabilities, in Peterborough. This team offers you a unique opportunity to showcase your experience and expertise in working with adults with learning disabilities who need psychological support when they find themselves in a crisis, where the role requires working within complex systems and with a number of partners.
Our team supports adults with learning disabilities with a diverse and challenging range of complex needs. Our goal is to support our service users to remain in their community when in crisis, by offering additional mental health support, psychological therapy, and treatment. We support the transition of service users to allow them to return from out of area placements and work closely with services supporting young people to prevent them having to leave Peterborough unnecessarily.
If you are successful, you will be providing Positive Behaviour Support (applied behavioural analysis, formulation, and functional analysis) and trauma-informed care. A key part of your role will be supporting the wider team to develop their psychological understanding of people's difficulties through consultation, supervision, and training. As a team, we are passionate about developing and providing the best possible care for our service users.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for implementing psychological assessments and providing therapeutic interventions. You will also support the wider team to develop psychological understandings of people's difficulties through consultation, supervision, and training. Supervision of an assistant psychologist and doctoral trainees on placements will also be an exciting part of the role.
You will be supported by the Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist. Professionally, CPFT psychologists have a wide and active range of supervision and research groups available to you. CPFT has an active research interest group with many local, regional, and national collaborations. The trust has strong links with the UEA Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programme and the University of Cambridge. There will be both supervision, teaching/lecturing, and examination opportunities with both universities.
We are a small team dedicated to supporting the development of our staff. If you are successful, you will have access to CPD opportunities, as appropriate to the role, and will have the opportunity to arrange a flexible work schedule to ensure a work/life balance that suits you.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities:
* As an autonomous practitioner, manage a highly complex caseload, including planning and implementing appropriate interventions based on the referral evaluation, assessment, diagnoses, treatment, and monitoring of individuals identified needs of adults with a learning disability.
* As a senior clinician, support the service and team manager & Consultant Psychologist in the development of a high-quality, responsive service, including leading on an area of service development in line with service plans.
* Provide professional leadership and management to psychology staff including Assistants and Trainees, including recruitment, reflective practice, supervision, appraisal, and professional development particularly mandatory training as delegated by the consultant Psychologist/team manager.
* Lead in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working within the CPFT and with key partners, establishing and maintaining effective relationships with colleagues, other agencies, people who use services, and their families.
* Work within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team(s).
* Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. Design and conduct clinical audit and research, maintaining current knowledge of research findings and development within the learning disability field.
* Conduct psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic interventions, and consultation to support people with specific needs, e.g., challenging behaviour, dementia, autism, mental health issues, and psychological and emotional difficulties.
* Act as an advocate and ensure that there is proper regard for people's dignity, choice, self-esteem, and racial, cultural, sexual, and religious needs and preferences.
* Be responsible for assessing and managing clinical risk, including in a crisis or safeguarding situation.
If you are interested in this exciting post, please contact either Deborah Hunt, Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist at Deborah.hunt@cpft.nhs.uk or Sallyanne Broughton, Team Manager IST at sallyannebroughton@cpft.nhs.uk to arrange a phone call, TEAMS call or visit.
Person Specification
Education Qualification
Essential
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
* Evidence of supervisory and risk management training.
Desirable
* Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
* Demonstrable post qualifying experience within a Community MDT.
* Experience of working with adults with Learning Disability.
* Care Co-ordination in CPA/Case Management.
* Experience in providing clinical supervision.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including community and residential care settings.
* Experience of working with people who show behaviour which challenges.
* Experience of developing and delivering training.
Desirable
* Experience of developing service user and carer involvement.
* Record of having published in either peer-reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Knowledge of Positive Behaviour support and its application to practice.
* Knowledge of advanced clinical risk assessment methods (HCR20).
* Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology/counselling psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, MHA and MCA Knowledge.
* Understanding of research and audit processes.
* Understanding of Clinical governance.
* Awareness of current trends legislation and guidance in support for people with learning disabilities and their carers.
* Knowledge of treatment strategies.
* Knowledge of the Enabling approach to support people meet their full potential.
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Ability to use own initiative.
* Ability to work as part of MDT.
* Ability to work under pressure and cope with stress.
* Ability to encourage and facilitate good teamwork.
* Ability to manage conflict.
* Ability to deliver health education training.
* Ability to contribute to service development and ability to manage change.
Other
Essential
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling effective working within the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
* Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
* Ability to exercise appropriate levels of wellbeing and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
* Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
* Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting.
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Intensive support team
53 Thorpe Rd
Peterborough
PE3 6AN
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