Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. To provide senior psychology leadership to UCARMHSS.
2. To embed outcome measures into practice to improve service-user experiences and outcomes, and ensure the ongoing quality, evaluation and effectiveness of interventions offered. To use quantitative and qualitative data to underpin governance and drive service improvements and research and produce regular feedback on these.
3. To make an active contribution to CPFT's quality improvement program.
4. To supervise the other psychological staff within UUCARMHSS.
5. To use creative and dynamic approaches to workforce development alongside a commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion alongside the project team.
6. To be responsible for governance oversight of UCARMHSS, promoting consistency of performance and working practices across services.
7. To liaise with other university mental health services and contribute to data collection supporting these initiatives.
8. To ensure that the service is accessing hard to reach students who might struggle to access services in the normal way.
9. To provide visible, accessible professional and clinical leadership in internal and external operational and strategic forums.
10. To participate in promoting and supporting the implementation and delivery of compassionate, reflective, psychologically-informed and trauma-informed care.
The UCARMHSS service will be hosted at the University of Cambridge Student Services Centre (SSC). The SSC is home to many student-serving departments across the University, including UCARMHSS. The SSC is in Cambridge city centre (Bene't Street, New Museums Site, Cambridge, CB2 3PT) and is marked on this University map. The service operates on the 3rd floor of the building, alongside the Mental Health Advice Service (MHAS), the University Counselling Service (UCS), the Postgraduate Wellbeing Service (PWS), and the Harassment and Violence Support Service (HVSS).
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* Doctorate-level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental.
* Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable Criteria
* Undertaken relevant post-doctoral training in working with clients with complex psychological needs.
* Undertaken post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological practice.
* Chartered Psychologist.
Experience
Essential Criteria
* Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist at post-qualification and specialist level with young people or adults experiencing significant mental health difficulties.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of young people's or adults' mental health care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including 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 client's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care-plan.
Desirable Criteria
* Experience of delivering supervision to non-psychology MDT staff.
* Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
Skills & Abilities
Essential Criteria
* Ability to demonstrate leadership skills in a psychology role.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention, and management requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
* 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 behaviour.
* High level ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable Criteria
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* High-level knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment of young people or adults.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential Criteria
* Doctoral-level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, psychological aspects of physical health difficulties, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
* Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychological medicine.
* Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health.
Desirable Criteria
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
* High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Other
Essential Criteria
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
* Ability to articulate clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
* Demonstrates enthusiasm for service initiatives. Has a commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
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 and young people's mental health services;
* Children's community services in Peterborough;
* Social care;
* 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.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references, and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to Download
* UCARMHSS Consultant Clinical Psychologist JDPS (PDF, 400.6KB)
* CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
* CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
* CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)
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