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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.

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Address: Elizabeth House; Fulbourn Hospital; Fulbourn; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; CB21 5EF
Contact Number: 0800 953 7016

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Cyf: 310-CYPF-6593833 ID y swydd wag: 6593833

Clinical Psychologist

Closed for applications on: 19-Medi-2024 00:01

Statws y swydd wag: Closed

Closed for applications on: 19-Medi-2024 00:01

Lleoliad

Gwefan: Newtown Centre
Cyfeiriad: Nursery Road
Tref: Huntingson
Cod post: PE29 3RJ
Major / Minor Region: Swydd Gaergrawnt

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Contract: Parhaol
Oriau: Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos

Cyflog

Cyflog: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum, pro rata
Cyfnod cyflog: Yn flynyddol
Gradd: (Band 7)

Arbenigedd

Prif leoliad: Mental Health - Child and Adolescent

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to the CAMHS team based upon the appropriate use and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, their families and others involved in the client’s care (including professionals from other agencies).
2. To individually formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatments and/or management of a client’s mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual clients, families/carers, and via groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models including developmental, cognitive, learning theory, biological, and neuropsychological, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To provide specialist child neuropsychology assessments, providing advice and consultation on this information to other NHS professionals, clients and their families, and other agencies as appropriate.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client’s formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of own (caseholder) clients and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
8. To participate in the CAMHS multi-disciplinary on-call system for emergency referrals, including both weekday and weekend cover.
9. To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.
10. To regularly deal with family breakdown, serious mental illness and child abuse.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
Children and young people’s mental health services;
Children’s community services in Peterborough;
Social care;
Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

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. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

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.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

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. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

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Education / Qualifications

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Postgraduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan development psychology.
Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Meini prawf dymunol

Chartered clinical psychologist
Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised area of psychological practice.
Training in psychometrics relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disability such as the ADOS, ADI and Vineland

Experience

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Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of 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 the application of applied psychology in different contexts including CAMHS or Children’s Services.

Meini prawf dymunol

Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of working with children and young people who have a learning disability, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families

Skills & Abilities

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Excellent skills of assessment, formulation, evaluation and treatment, using complex methods frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, careers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
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 emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Knowledge & Understanding

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Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and models of psychopathology and learning relevant to clients in CAMHS.
Good knowledge of psychological evidence-based interventions applicable to referred clients

Meini prawf dymunol

High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.

Personal

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Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
Interpersonally calm, able to diffuse difficult, volatile situations.
Excellent interpersonal skills enabling formation of networks with professionals from other agencies to promote effective working with clients.
Motivated towards personal and professional development, with a strong CPD record.
An ability to interact with clients of all ages and developmental levels, with complex problems, and who may be or become highly distressed and potentially aggressive.