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. We hope this provides a fantastic opportunity for someone to develop skills in this unique field or enjoy a secondment opportunity in a different setting.
We are a secondary care multi-disciplinary service (with an innovative and expanding therapy team), working with women with severe or complex mental health needs who are pregnant or have a child under one. 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.
We would encourage applications from individuals with an interest in the specialty, regardless of previous experience. You will have the opportunity to join an exceptional team.
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 do so through individual, group and dyadic work between parent and infant.
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. To support the development of the service you will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area serviced by the Perinatal Mental Health Service.
In this role you will be part of the Psychological Medicine Service and therefore you will be able to access peer supervision and support through this team.
About us
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.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Working with the Perinatal Mental Health Service:
1. Working with mothers, babies and other family members and other team members to provide specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological test, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care(dependent on training and discipline).
2. 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.
3. To assist the Perinatal Mental Health Service team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed to mothers and families.
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence based psychological interventions (based on training/discipline) for users of the Perinatal Mental Health Service in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about psychological treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
8. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
9. 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 hospital and inter-agency policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
* 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.
Desirable
* Undertaken post-qualification training in one or more relevant additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
* 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 including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 clients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
* 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, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytic skills.
* Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families' carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Able to contain and work with organisational stress.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients.
Desirable
* High level of knowledge of working with perinatal mental health.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within clinical health psychology.
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult situation.
* Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address
City Care Centre
Thorpe Road
Peterborough
PE3 6DB
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