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 South team, you will be part of the psychological management team alongside a Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Cameo North 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 the service 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 South 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.
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. This includes:
1. Carrying out, supervising, and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists/therapists and other clinical members of the team.
2. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance and supervision of psychological practice.
3. Conducting psychological assessment and individualized, formulation-driven interventions within a CBT framework as part of the service user's overall multidisciplinary team care plan.
4. Providing clinical leadership in the identification, assessment, treatment, and evaluation of first episode psychosis (FEP) and At Risk Mental State (ARMS) cases.
5. Developing psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework.
6. Implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems.
7. Undertaking risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
8. Evaluating and making decisions about psychological treatment options.
9. Exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organization dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion. We deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also within the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older People's mental health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison Psychiatry, and Substance Misuse.
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 on CPFT, please visit our website www.cpft.nhs.uk.
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