This is a leadership role where you will work in collaboration with the Lead Consultant Psychologist to ensure that the psychological skills service continues to be trauma informed in its approach and communication and provides effective and high-quality interventions. You will also provide clinical leadership, supervision, advice, guidance, and support across the psychological skills service (PSS) (though you will be based in the Cambridge team).
You will have a small clinical caseload of service users who meet criteria for complex PTSD. You will be providing individual therapy that focuses on processing traumatic memories and re-scripting events. Our main therapies for this pathway include Trauma focused CBT (TF-CBT), Compassion focused therapy, and/or Eye movement and desensitization reprocessing therapy (EMDR).
Main duties of the job
You will be leading on the strategy and providing advice and guidance on the following areas (these each have their own leads that you will supervise):
1. Supervision
2. Training and development
3. Reflective practice
4. Trauma informed communication and practice
5. Service improvement and evaluation
6. Inclusion (adapting interventions to meet the needs of all service users)
You will lead a regular quality meeting involving other members of the team and provide advice, supervision, and guidance to the wider team to ensure the quality of psychological therapy provided.
You will contribute to the initial expert assessment of clients newly referred to the team and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. You will provide one-to-one therapy for people with complex PTSD.
You will mostly be based in the Cambridge office but at times we would ask you to go to one of our other bases if other senior clinicians are not available or when there is a whole team meeting. You will work with clients at the team base or virtually. At times there will be lone working in these environments, where there is an expectation to follow the relevant safety protocols. We are keen to support working from home and flexible working.
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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To provide clinical leadership and line management related responsibilities, including strategic thinking and monitoring of service delivery, to the psychology staff in the Psychological skills service (in collaboration with the consultant clinical psychologist).
To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to PSS 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 structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client’s care.
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 use psychological formulations 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, and to use these plans to inform and lead the work of non-psychology members of the team.
To be responsible for implementing and delivering psychological interventions for individuals with complex PTSD or other manifestations of complex trauma, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. This includes responsibility for the delivery of psychological interventions by all team members.
To evaluate and make decisions about 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, carers, or group.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling or forensic psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Further training in supervision of clinical psychologists.
* Additional training in a trauma processing therapy recommended by NICE for CPTSD.
* Qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
* Undertaken post-qualification further training in: -CBT -Acceptance and Commitment therapy or -Compassion focused therapy, or -Working with Asperger's/Autistic spectrum disorder -Schema therapy -EMDR.
* Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
Experience
* 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.
* Experience of developing and implementing psychological interventions to groups of patients.
* Experience of working with service users with complex needs.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of delivering group programmes based on: -Acceptance and commitment therapy -Compassion focused therapy -Complex trauma -Skills relating to ASD.
* Experience of supervising assistant psychologists.
Skills & Abilities
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Demonstrates an understanding of the need to use evidence-based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning.
* Experience of leading and carrying out research projects and interpreting data using statistical analyses.
* Proven ability in carrying out clinical audits.
* 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.
* Knowledge of current policies relating to bridging the gap between primary and secondary care.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies to patients specifically ACT, compassion focused therapies, CBT, EMDR, and schema therapy.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of a psychologically based group intervention.
Other
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling the formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients.
* Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
* Able to contain and work with organisational stress.
* The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system.
* Ability to promote psychological models with clients, carers, and staff in an understandable and person-centred way, clearly outlining goals and potential outcomes.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health, and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research.
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. For further information about our positive equality, diversity, and inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
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.
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