Clinical Psychologist – Transplant Service
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our growing Psychological Medicine team in Royal Papworth Hospital in a permanent 0.4 WTE (2 days) 8B Transplant role. Royal Papworth Hospital is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, treating more than 100,000 patients each year from across the UK. Since carrying out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979, the hospital has established an international reputation for excellence in research and innovation.
Whilst the Psychological Medicine Service is a Royal Papworth Hospital service, Clinical Psychologists are employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), to work alongside the hospital teams.
CPFT provides the Psychological Medicine Services within the acute hospitals which include Cambridge University Hospital, Royal Papworth Hospital, Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join the existing Psychological Medicine MDT consisting of two Consultant Psychiatrists, three Clinical Psychologists (one Band 8A and two 8Bs) and a Clinical Nurse Specialist.
This new role is created to improve care for Transplant patients. The Clinical Psychologist will work with inpatients and outpatients and there are opportunities to contribute to national initiatives and develop service improvement and research.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for detailed main responsibilities.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structures observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
To develop psychological formulations 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 clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
* Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS).
Experience
* Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment, across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course, and the range of clinical severity. 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 the delivery of psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of teaching training and clinical supervision.
* Able to demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of working in physical health care, and in a hospital setting.
* Experience of working within transplant services
Skills & Abilities
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
* 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 organising skills for caseload management. Skills in self-management, including time management.
* Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate 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.
* Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Advanced IT and keyboard skills.
* Expert knowledge of clinical health psychology.
* Specialist knowledge of working with this client group.
* Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this service user group.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
* 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.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Other
* Positive approach to older people.
* Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
* Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
* Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
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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