Principal Psychologist

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This is a leadership role where you will work in collaboration with the Lead Consultant Psychologist to ensure that the psychological skills service continues to be trauma informed in it’s approach and communication and provides effective and high quality interventions.  You will also provide clinical leadership, supervision, advice, guidance and support across the psychological skills service (PSS) (though you will be based in the Cambridge team). 

You will have a small clinical caseload of services users who meet criteria for complex PTSD.  You will be providing individual therapy that focuses on processing traumatic memories and re-scripting events.  Our main therapies for this pathway include Trauma focused CBT (TF-CBT), Compassion focussed therapy and/ or Eye movement and desensitisation reprocessing therapy (EMDR). 

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You will be leading on the strategy and providing advice and guidance on the following areas (these each have their own leads that you will supervise) 

Supervision
Training and development
Reflective practice 
Trauma informed communication and practice
Service improvement and evaluation
Inclusion (adapting interventions to meet the needs of all service users

You will lead a regular quality meeting involving other members of the team and provide advice supervision and guidance to the wider team to ensure the quality of psychological therapy provided.

You will contribute to the initial expert assessment of clients newly referred to the team and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.  You will provide one to one therapy for people with complex PTSD.

Working Environment 

You will mostly be based in the Cambridge office but at time we would ask you to go to one of our other bases if other senior clinicians are not available or when there is a whole team meeting You will work with clients at the team base or virtually.  At times there will be lone working in these environments, where there is an expectation to follow the relevant safety protocols.  We are keen to support working from home and flexible working.   

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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.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk