Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
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 North team, you will be part of the psychological management team alongside a Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Cameo South 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.
CAMEO is an award-winning CPFT Early Intervention in Psychosis service offering an age-inclusive service (14-65 years) across a three-year pathway. Cameo was established in 2002 and has had a significant impact on the development of the Early Intervention model across the UK and internationally. The successful applicant will be based in the CAMEO North multidisciplinary team and will form part of the senior leadership team consisting of team managers, consultant psychiatrists, and advanced nurse practitioners. They will work with experienced clinical psychologists/CBTp therapists involved in engaging, assessing, supporting, and enhancing outcomes for individuals and families experiencing the first episode of psychosis across a broad range of community settings under the overall coordination of a Consultant Psychologist.
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 who provide psychologically based care and treatment in the Cameo North 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. This role will include psychological assessment and individualized, formulation-driven interventions within a CBT framework as part of the service user's overall multi-disciplinary team care plan. Therapeutic interventions will be delivered in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention in Psychosis Services and across the whole caseload, which will include individuals with At Risk Mental States and those experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis.
The post holder will receive supervision, professional support, and guidance from the Consultant Clinical Psychologist who oversees the service. If you are a qualified and experienced CBT therapist/clinical psychologist with a proven ability to assertively engage therapeutically and the ability to adapt your work across a range of clinical presentations, we look forward to meeting you.
About Us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organization 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-caliber 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 Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
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 provide clinical leadership in the identification, assessment, treatment, and evaluation of first episode psychosis (FEP) and At Risk Mental state (ARMS) cases in the CAMEO North team with particular emphasis on promoting an accessible, safe, and effective service.
To carry out, supervise, and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists/therapists and other members of the team providing psychologically based care and treatment.
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 clients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients' problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To provide a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
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 evaluate and make decisions about psychological treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology, specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Formal training in clinical supervision.
* Evidence of post-doctoral training (CBTp, Early Intervention in Psychosis, EMDR, psychological interventions for trauma, Family intervention) or other areas of specialized psychological practice.
* Completion of ADOS training skills in assessment of ASD.
Experience
* Experience of working with people experiencing psychotic symptoms and their families/working in an EIP setting.
* Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* In-depth experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary team setting.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of application of clinical psychology in different contexts.
* Previous experience of delivering cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis clinical supervision.
* Experience of working with complex trauma, ASD, neuropsychological assessment.
* In-depth experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care including leadership skills.
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 frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
* Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning. Planning and organizing skills for caseload management.
* Well-developed skills in the ability 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.
* 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 legislation in relation to the service user group and the setting, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, comorbid conditions).
* Knowledge of service improvement models and their application.
Personal Qualities
* Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
* Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users and carers.
* Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor one's own state, recognizing when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
* 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.
* Positive approach to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) including willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude to embrace new ways of working.
Other
* Positive approach to EIP.
* Recognize people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
* Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
* Able to sit for long periods.
* Ability to travel independently across the county.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum pro rata
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