We are looking for an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Community Paediatric Service theChildren’s Community Specialist Nursing Teams (CCSNT) across Cambridgeshire. This is an exciting new post working across both teams providing assessments and therapeutic support to children, young people of their families.
The Community Paediatric Service offers neurodevelopmental assessments to children across Cambridgeshire up to the age of 11 years old, and also sees children with complex physical health conditions (e.g. cerebral palsy). The successful postholder will join the multi-disciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment clinics contributing to diagnostic decision making and/or formulation, as appropriate. The postholder will also be involved in the development of psycho-educational and therapeutic group interventions offered by the service.
This is a new and exciting role within the team and the post holder will have the chance to help develop this role as we move forward as a service.
The CCSNT provide support to young people and their families with their healthcare needs. The team aims to prevent hospital admission and facilitate early hospital discharge wherever possible. Support is offered to children with a range of complex and chronic health conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care. The postholder will undertake assessments, develop formulations and deliver short term psychosocial and psychological interventions to these families as part of their role, as well as providing forums for staff support.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
1. To provide and be responsible for implementing a range of psychological assessments and interventions (e.g. CBT) for children, young people, and their families within both the Community Paediatric Service and CCSNT. adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
2. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client’s formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan and enhancing staff confidence and competence in their own roles.
3. To work together with relevant professionals to provide a co-ordinated service that meets the identified needs of the child and family. This includes post diagnostic support, and pre and post bereavement counselling to families and children with a variety of medical conditions (ranging from those with complex healthcare needs, those needing acute short term interventions and those requiring palliative and end of life care). The role will also involve supporting the CCSNT with clinics.
4. To evaluate, analyse and make decisions/recommendations 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.
5. To undertake risk formulations and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk formulation and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies, procedures and NICE guidelines.
6. To lead on service evaluations relating to efficacy of interventions.
7. To participate in audits.
8. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings, representing psychology within both the Community Paediatric Service and the CCSNT and provide a psychological lens for case discussions.
9. Providing supervision and support to colleagues within the CCSNT including palliative care supervision, and leading team debriefs following child bereavement.
10.To participate in the development of the evolving service, including group work delivering teaching and training and creating resources for families.
11.To be aware of health inequalities, ensuring that any additional vulnerability or inequality suffered by children and young people (e.g., learning disability, victim of child sexual exploitation, children looked after) is properly considered when identifying appropriate interventions with other professionals.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025
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