Main area: Principal Clinical Counselling Psychologist Grade Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Part time
* Flexible working
30 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm)
Job ref: 310-MASMH-6746910
Employer: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Chesterton Medical Centre
Town: Cambridge
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 Pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 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 South team, you will be part of the psychological management team alongside a Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Cameo North 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.
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 and other clinical members of the 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.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology.
* Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Evidence of post-doctoral training in relevant areas.
* Completion of ADOS training skills in assessment of ASD.
Experience
* Experience of working with people experiencing psychotic symptoms and their families.
* In-depth experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge and Skills
* Commitment to high-quality care and service provision.
* Knowledge of and ability to deliver CBTp and behavioral family therapy.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance.
Personal Qualities
* Motivated towards personal and professional development.
* Ability to contain and work with high levels of distress.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
For further information on CPFT please visit our website www.cpft.nhs.uk
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