We are seeking an experienced, innovative, and enthusiastic Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our exciting new Universities of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Mental Health Student Service (UCARMHSS) pilot which is set to launch in 2025.
This new service will offer multiple pathways: psychiatry, psychology, and care coordination, allowing students to access tailored interventions. The goal is to improve access to support for students' mental health, inform about available support, and guide them in managing their mental health. Key features of the service include:
1. A focus on student needs rather than diagnosis, with every referral undergoing thorough triage and, where necessary, formulation assessments.
2. Proactive support to help students succeed academically and socially at university.
3. Flexible access to services, with face-to-face, telephone, video, and other online options available to meet individual preferences.
4. Comprehensive care coordination, encompassing assessment, case management, self-management support, and liaison with university services.
Main duties of the job
You will be the clinical lead for a new service providing mental health support to university students attached to Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University.
You will initially be involved in developing what the service offers, recruiting staff to the service, developing relationships with the university based mental health services and establishing referral pathways. When the service opens, you will provide psychological leadership to the whole team, as well as providing psychological assessments and interventions, and supervision to staff. You will continue to think about the service vision, how to embed outcome measures and contribute to service development.
You will work closely with other services that sit between primary and secondary care and closely with university staff as well as the members of your own 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.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. To provide senior psychology leadership to UCARMHSS.
2. To embed outcome measures into practice to improve service-user experiences and outcomes, and ensure the ongoing quality, evaluation and effectiveness of interventions offered.
3. To use quantitative and qualitative data to underpin governance and drive service improvements and research and produce regular feedback on these.
4. To make an active contribution to CPFT's quality improvement program.
5. To supervise the other psychological staff within UCARMHSS.
6. To use creative and dynamic approaches to workforce development alongside a commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion alongside the project team.
7. To be responsible for governance oversight of UCARMHSS.
8. To promote consistency of performance and working practices across services.
9. To liaise with other university mental health services and contribute to data collection supporting these initiatives.
10. To ensure that the service is accessing hard to reach students who might struggle to access services in the normal way.
11. To provide visible, accessible professional and clinical leadership in internal and external operational and strategic forums.
12. To participate in promoting and supporting the implementation and delivery of compassionate, reflective, psychologically-informed and trauma-informed care.
The UCARMHSS service will be hosted at the University of Cambridge Student Services Centre (SSC). The SSC is home to many student-serving departments across the University, including UCARMHSS. The SSC is in Cambridge city centre (Benet Street, New Museums Site, Cambridge, CB2 3PT) and is marked on this University map. The service operates on the 3rd floor of the building, alongside the Mental Health Advice Service (MHAS), the University Counselling Service (UCS), the Postgraduate Wellbeing Service (PWS) and the Harassment and Violence Support Service (HVSS).
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
* Doctorate-level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental.
* Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
* Undertaken relevant post-doctoral training in working with clients with complex psychological needs.
* Undertaken post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological practice.
* Chartered Psychologist.
Experience
Essential
* Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist at post-qualification and specialist level with young people or adults experiencing significant mental health difficulties.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of young people's or adults' mental health care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical 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 client's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care-plan.
Desirable
* Experience of delivering supervision to non-psychology MDT staff.
* Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
* Ability to demonstrate leadership skills in a psychology role.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
* 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.
* High level ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* High-level knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment of young people or adults.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
* Doctoral-level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, psychological aspects of physical health difficulties, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
* Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychological medicine.
* Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health.
Desirable
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
* High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Other
Essential
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
* Ability to articulate clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
* Demonstrates enthusiasm for service initiatives. Has a commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University of Cambridge Student Services
Bene't Street, New Museums Site
Cambridge
CB2 3PT
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