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Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
About
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.
EHWS Assistant Psychologist
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Oak Tree Centre
- Address
- Oak Tree Centre, 1 Oak drive
- Town
- Huntingdon, Cambs
- Postcode
- PE29 7HN
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 8 months (Fixed term until 31st March 2025)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Emotional Health and Wellbeing
- Interview date
- 30/07/2024
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Assistant Psychologist post to work within the Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service (EHWS), within Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
The Assistant Psychologist role does not require professional registration, (just an undergraduate psychology degree)
The EHWS support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, within the 'Getting Advice' and 'Getting Help' quadrants of the Thrive Framework, working closely with schools and colleges.
This post will be based within the Oaktree Centre in Huntingdon, but the service covers Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Norfolk and Waveney.
(Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised)
Advert
To work closely with the Psychologists and other clinicians within the service, in order to support the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people.
The post holder will support with audits, research, data analysis and evaluations. Furthermore, they will lead on small projects to support service development.
The post holder will also work clinically with children and young people and their families, as well as school staff.
The post holder will gain experience in delivering cognitive behaviour therapy informed guided self help, as well as other group based interventions.
Please note, the post holder must be able to travel long distances across the 2 counties, often at short notice.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Under supervision, to plan, organise and teach on a variety topics across the service.
2. To conduct research projects and audits.
3. To monitor and evaluate the work of the service, including clinical interventions.
4. To offer brief interventions for children and young people and their parents and carers under the supervision of a Psychologist.
5. To work independently according to a plan agreed with a Psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
6. To gain knowledge of local services in order to support signposting and system navigation.
7. To gain experience of psychological assessments, applying psychological tests, self-report measures, and rating scales with children, young people, family members and others involved in the service users care.
8. To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
9. To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of patients.
10. To ensure that stakeholders are appropriately consulted about the service they receive and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.
Communication
1. Communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex and highly sensitive information with the service, education staff, children, young people and their families and other professionals.
2. Contributing to reports received by senior management and commissioners, as well as communicating their findings in meetings and presentations.
Budgetary Responsibility
None
People Management
Maintaining own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process.
Research & Development Activity
1. Undertaking R&D activities under the supervision of responsible Psychologist or others.
2. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
3. To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist Psychologists in evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Clinical and Practice Governance
1. Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
2. Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed, or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
3. The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes.
4. The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures.
5. Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
6. The post holder must participate in clinical and safeguarding audits as required.
7. Participate in Clinical & Safeguarding supervision on a regular basis.
8. The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.
General
Safeguarding people responsibility
• Safeguarding children and adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a collective responsibility.
• There is an expectation that all staff develop and maintain their role relevant safeguarding people competencies and comply with local safeguarding partnerships practice. Alongside this employees who are registrants are reminded of their professional duty of care.
• Safeguarding means protecting a citizen’s health, wellbeing and human rights; enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It is an integral part of providing high-quality health care.
• Those most in need of protection include:
• Children and young people
• Adults at risk, such as those receiving care in their own home, people with physical, sensory, and mental impairments, and those with learning disabilities.
The post holder must at all times carry out their duties with regard to Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
The post holder must be aware of the responsibilities of all employees to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
The post holder must adhere to the code of conduct on confidentiality and be aware of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures.
This job description is intended only as a guide to the range of duties involved. The post holder will need to be flexible and adaptable in order to respond to other duties that may be required from time to time and the changes and developments within the Trust.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions) Order 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure of Barring Service to be made to check for any previous criminal convictions. Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff, or users in line with its equal opportunities policy and policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders.
Certificate of Sponsorship
For roles that are eligible for sponsorship, applications from job seekers who require Skilled Worker Visa to work in the UK are welcome, and will be considered alongside all other applications. You are strongly advised to visit Check if you need a UK Visa website (Opens in a new tab), and familiarise yourself with what is required which should assist you in your understanding of the process
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here. (Opens in a new tab)
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new tab)
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Our safe recruitment pre-employment checks are undertaken before an appointment is confirmed and may include a DBS check. Where the role requires you to drive, we'll ask you to validate your driving licence online via the DVLA.
In submitting an application, you authorise Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed.
ALL CORRESPONDENCE will be via the e-mail address on your application form. If you have not been invited to interview within 2 weeks of the closing date, you unfortunately haven’t been successful on this occasion, but keep an eye on our vacancies as a job that’s just right for you may appear!
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Upper second class honours degree or higher in Psychology
- Entitlement to GBR of the BPS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in working with CYP and parent/carers
- Experience of working in a team or group environment
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues
- Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
- Experience of research and / or data analysis
- Experience in delivering training
- Experience working in an education setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- An understanding of psychological theory applied to the mental health of CYP
- Ability to manage / awareness of the need to manage their own wellbeing
- Demonstrates good computer literacy
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr. Sara Katsukunya
- Job title
- EHWS Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07944276002
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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