Main area: Mental Health - Child and Adolescent
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: 3 years (The post is available from 1st February 2025 for a fixed-term of 3 years.)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 310-MCYPF-6946607
Site: Newtown Centre
Town: Huntingdon
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are currently looking to recruit an experienced Band 8a Clinical Psychologist or CBT Specialist to lead on an NIHR funded randomised controlled trial of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in very young children aged 2-8 years old.
The postholder will be associated with our CAMHS team – a multi-disciplinary team offering a diverse range of professional approaches, including Family Therapy, Nursing, Occupational therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Social work, and Mental health Practitioners. Our team works with young people who are experiencing moderate to severe emotional, behavioural, or mental health difficulties.
As a team, we believe that service user participation and feedback is an integral part of the development and delivery of services and supports care which is person-centred and inclusive.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist/CBT Specialist with experience of working with victims of trauma suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for a time-limited appointment to work on an NIHR funded clinical trial. They will be responsible for the administration of a Trauma-Focused CBT Intervention for young children aged 2-8 years with PTSD, for comparison to usual care.
The post holder will also act as the Trial Lead, coordinating other trial-related activities and leading the evaluation and dissemination of the findings from the trial. The post holder will manage one assistant psychologist and work closely with another Therapist based in London at the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Trust.
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. To provide evidence-based assessment of participants who were referred to the trial after providing informed consent.
2. To formulate and implement treatment plans for psychological treatment in line with the treatment protocol and considering the participant’s problems.
3. To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of participants.
4. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to participants’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan within the trial protocol.
5. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to participants and others (e.g., the participant’s GP) as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of participants under their care.
6. To maintain clinical records and produce clinical reports as appropriate, which adhere to the trial protocol.
7. Reliably establish ongoing consent throughout a participant’s trial participation.
8. To deal with risk issues.
9. To participate in the multidisciplinary systems for monitoring and managing workload as agreed by the professional and line manager.
10. To work within levels of professional competence.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Professional training in clinical psychology, including working with children.
* Eligibility for HCPC Membership in the UK.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of diagnoses.
* Experience of working within a CBT framework.
* Experience using case-conceptualisation to formulate a treatment approach.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts.
* Experience of working with clients with PTSD.
* Experience of working with young children.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Skills & Abilities
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* High standard of report writing for communication with professionals from NHS, Local Authority and other agencies, parents/carers and clients.
* Well-developed skills in the 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.
* 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.
* Knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to promote effective working with clients.
* Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
* Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
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.
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.
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
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.
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