Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or High Intensity Therapist
Band 7
Main area Psychologist CBT Therapist Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 310-MASMH-7058877
Site 53 Thorpe Road Town Peterborough Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within CPFT for either a qualified Psychologist or High Intensity CBT therapist to join the Liaison and Diversion Service. The successful candidate will be working with people who have received a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) by the court as a result of having committed low level offending and experiencing co-occurring mental health conditions across Cambridgeshire.
This is a part time position of 3 days a week which can be flexible within the needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
The service delivers MHTRs for adults within the demographic area.
1. The post holder will provide supervision to assistant psychologists completing structured assessments of offenders who the courts are considering placing on a MHTR order.
2. The post holder will need to consider the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources to help the assistant determine suitability for the offender to be offered a MHTR and to commence a manualised psycho-educational treatment programme provided by the assistant psychologist.
3. Also undertake risk assessment and risk management of offenders prior to them commencing manualised treatment programmes with an assistant psychologist.
4. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge of offenders receiving manualised treatment under MHTRs, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions are communicated with the assistant psychologist providing the treatments.
5. The post holder would be expected to offer regular clinical supervision to the assistant psychologists delivering the MHTR interventions.
6. They would be expected to provide clinical oversight and guidance around the assessment, formulation, treatment planning and delivery of the intervention.
7. The post holder would be expected to contribute to the wider service development, considering the local needs and how the implementation of the MHTR service can be achieved across Cambridgeshire.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
2. To provide clinical oversight and guidance of Assistant Psychologists work relating to assessments, formulations, treatment planning and delivery of care to service users.
3. To offer regular clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists who will be carrying out suitability assessment and delivering low intensity psychological interventions.
4. To hold their own small caseload of direct clinical therapeutic work with the service users.
5. To formulate risk and clinical need in collaboration with team members.
6. To formulate plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of offenders based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks of risk management, mental health, family systems and individual psychological functioning.
7. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about risk management and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental, and systemic processes that have shaped the offender.
8. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to offenders’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
9. To provide clinical expertise to the Liaison and Diversion Service, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to offenders.
10. To manage risk and improve outcomes for offenders by providing weekly supervision to an assistant psychologist who will be working with offenders to offer them a manualised treatment under Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) ordered by the courts as a part of a Community Order.
11. To support the clinical lead in providing consultation and clinical expertise to colleagues in the Liaison and Diversion service to encourage a psychological approach in their work and to facilitate their professional development, reflective capacity and the effective and safe delivery of Liaison and Diversion Services.
12. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research, particularly with respect to evaluating the MHTRs and monitoring outcome for the interventions provided by the assistant psychologist.
Person specification
Physical Requirements
* Sustained periods of sitting
* Advanced keyboard skills
* Ability to travel and work flexibly across different locations in Cambridgeshire.
* Car owner and able to travel independently across the country as required.
Education/Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology including specifically, models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
* Registered with the HCPC
* Post graduate diploma or equivalent qualification in therapy modality (High Intensity Therapy/ CBT)
* Chartered Clinical Psychologist
* BABCP Accreditation
* Undertaken relevant post-doctoral/ post qualification training
* Undertaken post-qualification further training in a specialised area of psychology or therapy
* Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee or assistant psychologists.
Experience
* Experience of providing psychological assessment, formulation, treatment planning and delivery of interventions to clients with mental health difficulties in a community setting.
* Experience of carrying out psychological assessments, formulations and delivering treatment using a cognitive behavioural model.
* Experience of delivering psychological interventions to adult service users.
* Ability to maintain 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 clients’ psychological care and treatment as a qualified clinician.
* Experience of supervising non-qualified members of psychology staff e.g. Assistant Psychologists or Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
* Experience of working in a primary care mental health service.
* Experience delivering psychological therapies using a range of models such as third wave approaches e.g. CFT, ACT, DBT.
* Experience of delivering psychologically informed training to staff.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience working with adults with mental health issues and complex trauma.
* Experience of working with offenders within the clinical justice system.
* Experience of working with adults who have complex and serious mental health problems.
Skills & Abilities
* Positive problem-solving approach.
* Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work.
* Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with clients from diverse backgrounds.
* Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of different specialised psychological therapies.
* Can deliver high intensity, evidence-based interventions in line with NICE guidelines.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group within a criminal justice context and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
* Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with clients from diverse backgrounds.
* Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts.
* Personal experience of coping with work and life stressors.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the adults and mental health.
* Knowledge or experience working with relationships, attachment issues or complex trauma.
Other
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working.
* Able to contain and work with distress from clients.
* Ability to work within a team fostering good working relationships.
* Good organisational skills.
* An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
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