Main area: Adult and Specialist Grade Band 7
Contract: 12 months (12-month fixed term or secondment post)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 310-MASMH-6748609
Employer: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: City Care Centre
Town: Peterborough
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/01/2025 23:59
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, CBT Therapist or EMDR Therapist
Band 7
Job overview
We are excited to offer this opportunity for a clinical/counselling psychologist, CBT or EMDR therapist to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service for 12 months to cover maternity leave within our team, commencing April 2025. This role will work across the north of the county covering Peterborough, Huntingdon and Fenland. However, we operate hybrid working and your office base can be one of our four clinical hubs across the county (Cambridge, Peterborough, Huntingdon or Wisbech). Travel across the county is required but compensated in line with NHS terms.
Perinatal Mental Health is a growing specialty and provides opportunity for you to develop specialist skills. You will provide therapeutic interventions, including individual, group, and dyadic work between parent and infant.
Main duties of the job
If you are successful, we will expect you to contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service to clients of the Perinatal Mental Health Service. This will involve conducting psychological assessments and providing therapy, drawing on a range of models (dependent on training), to women and their families.
You will be expected to support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, and working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery teams. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.
We will expect you to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Perinatal Mental Health Service.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
* OR CBT Accredited Therapist registered with BABCP.
* OR EMDR Accredited Practitioner registered with EMDR Association UK/EMDR Europe.
* OR Registered with relevant professional body for clinical background e.g. HCPC, NMC, BABCP, BACP.
* Undertaken post-qualification training in one or more relevant additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
* Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or therapist.
* 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.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge & Skills
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and setting, and its implication for both clinical practice and professional management.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management.
* Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
* High level of knowledge of working with perinatal mental health.
Personal Qualities
* Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult situations.
* Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
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.
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