Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, CBT Therapist or EMDR Therapist
Band 7
Main area: Adult and Specialist Grade Band 7
Contract: 12 months (12-month fixed term or secondment post)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 310-MASMH-6748609-A
Site: City Care Centre, Town: Peterborough
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are excited to offer this opportunity for a clinical/counselling psychologist, CBT or EMDR therapist to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service for 12 months to cover maternity leave within our team, commencing April 2025. This role will work across the north of the county covering Peterborough, Huntingdon and Fenland. However, we operate hybrid working and your office base can be one of our four clinical hubs across the county (Cambridge, Peterborough, Huntingdon or Wisbech). Travel across the county is required but compensated in line with NHS terms.
Perinatal Mental Health is a growing specialty and provides opportunity for you to develop specialist skills. You will provide therapeutic interventions, including individual, group, and dyadic work between parent and infant.
Main duties of the job
If you are successful, we will expect you to contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service. This will involve conducting psychological assessments and providing therapy to women and their families through individual, group and dyadic work.
You will support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, and working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery teams. You will join a multi-disciplinary team made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.
You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Working with the Perinatal Mental Health Service:
* Working with mothers, babies and other family members to provide specialist psychological assessments.
* To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations.
* To assist the team in communicating complex information to mothers and families.
* To implement evidence-based psychological interventions for users of the service.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, or equivalent.
* OR CBT Accredited Therapist registered with BABCP.
* OR EMDR Accredited Practitioner registered with EMDR Association UK/EMDR Europe.
* OR Registered with relevant professional body for clinical background.
* Undertaken post-qualification training in one or more relevant specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
* Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or therapist.
* Experience of working with a variety of client groups across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge & Skills
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and setting.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management.
* Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complex information effectively.
* High level of knowledge of working with perinatal mental health.
Personal Qualities
* Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult situations.
* Able to tolerate ambiguity and make decisions in incomplete information.
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.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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