Main area Clinical Psychologist Grade Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 12 months (12 month Maternity cover) Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (9am -5pm) Job ref 310-MASMH-7035405
Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Chesterton Medical Centre Town Chesterton, Cambridge Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/04/2025 23:59
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
12 Month Maternity Cover
CAMEO provides full and comprehensive, assessment, treatment and management of all cases experiencing first episode psychosis and At-Risk mental states (ARMS) within the catchment area of Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. It operates across 2 bases in Cambridge and Peterborough.
Our mission is to put people in control of their care. We will maximise opportunities for individuals and their families by enabling them to look beyond their limitations to achieve their goals and aspirations.
We are committed to the core NHS values which we underpin in all that we do -
* Working Together for Patients
* Compassion
* Respect & Dignity
* Everyone Counts
* Improving Lives
* Commitment to Quality of Care
Main duties of the job
* To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
* To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers, or group.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
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, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To provide clinical leadership in the identification, assessment, treatment and evaluation of first episode psychosis (FEP) cases in the CAMEO South team.
* To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural, and biological factors.
* To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
* To monitor and evaluate progress during both uni-and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.
Person specification
Personal Qualities
* Motivated towards personal and professional development with strong CPD record.
* Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users and carers.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling 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.
Knowledge and Skills
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
* Knowledge of and ability to deliver CBTp and behavioural family therapy.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
Experience
* Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings.
* In depth experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Education and Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology.
* Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Evidence of post-doctoral training (CBTp, Early Intervention in psychosis) or willingness to undertake.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion.
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