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About
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.
Senior Practitioner Psychologist or CBT Therapist
Accepting applications until: 02-Jun-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 02-Jun-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Town Hall
- Address
- 17 Bridge Street,
- Town
- Peterborough
- Postcode
- PE1 1HJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
Job overview
Are you a skilled and compassionate Psychological Therapist seeking to make a real difference for individuals affected by complex trauma? We’re looking for a Senior Practitioner Psychologist or CBT Therapist to join our Psychological Skills Service (PSS). This full-time post offers a great opportunity for a newly qualified therapist on a preceptorship pathway.
You’ll complete trauma-informed assessments and formulations, helping service users and teams understand how past trauma shapes present challenges and guiding care planning. You’ll hold a small caseload, delivering trauma-focused therapies including TF-CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, EMDR, and co-facilitating a schema therapy group.
Alongside direct clinical work, you’ll provide leadership, training, supervision, and consultation to colleagues and external services. If you’re interested in developing psychoeducational resources for staff, service users, and carers, you’ll be a perfect fit.
Based in Peterborough, you’ll join a close-knit team and collaborate with colleagues across Peterborough and Cambridge. The service is clinically led by an 8C psychologist, supporting a dynamic and compassionate team culture.
https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/the-psychological-skills-service-/
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You will be conducting comprehensive psychological assessments to produce a trauma informed formulation and treatment plan for service users who have experienced complex trauma. You will write reports and provide explanations to service users that help them to make sense of why they are struggling and why we are suggesting specific therapies. You will have a small caseload of service users and will be delivering therapies focused on trauma processing (TF-CBT and EMDR) and will have opportunities to co facilitate a schema therapy group.
You will also be providing leadership (leading on areas of the service such as our trauma stabilisation group), training, supervision, and consultancy to staff within the team and to other services who refer into this pathway. We are keen to continue to develop more psychoeducational materials that could be available for staff service users and carers so someone interested and experience in creating content would be a great fit for this post.
You will undertake risk assessments related to psychological interventions and manage risks in accordance with best practice guidelines and organizational policies.
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.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
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Conduct comprehensive psychological assessments and develop individualized trauma informed treatment plans
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Deliver evidence-based therapies for people who have complex PTSD and other difficulties relating to complex trauma (e.g. EMDR/ TF-CBT) using practice-based evidence with service users who have difficulties where there is not an established evidence base.
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To provide individual and group supervision to more junior staff in the team and to staff in other services who also work with this population
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To promote and support the implementation of Trauma Informed Care in all aspects and areas of their work
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To supervise assistant psychologists and CAPs delivering group and structured short term interventions addressing gaps in services
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Deliver therapeutic interventions in group and individual format in therapies including TF-CBT, EMDR, CFT, CAT, Schema and DBT.
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Take autonomous responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users
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Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, adjusting treatment plans as necessary.
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Be available to junior members of the team for ad hoc advice regarding risk, boundaries and responses to service users
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Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide holistic care and support to service users.
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Contribute to service development, research, and evaluation to enhance the quality of care provided, leading on specific working groups developing interventions or materials
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To attend interface meetings with community teams, the IAPT and personality disorder services to help think through the best services to provide treatment and support to individuals
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To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
Risk
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Undertake risk assessments related to psychological interventions and manage risks in accordance with best practice guidelines and organizational policies.
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Ensure appropriate action is taken to mitigate risks and safeguard service users.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology AND Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC. OR PG Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (or its equivalent eligible for BABCP accreditation) AND Eligible for BABCP accreditation.
- Professional training which supports the ability to provide high intensity clinical interventions ; OR Post graduate qualifications / training in trauma-focussed psychological therapies e.g.TF-CBT, EMDR (Level 3), NET, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy or other.
Desirable criteria
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Undertaken post-qualification further training in -Acceptance and Commitment therapy -Compassion focused therapy -Working with ASD -CAT -Schema therapy
- Accreditation in EMDR
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with service users with complex trauma
- Experience of supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists and/or other psychological therapists
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising assistant psychologists and trainees
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with people who are neurodiverse and adapting interventions
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent assessment and formulation skills in regards to C-PTSD, with a thorough understanding of up-to-date theory. High level of competency in trauma-focused psychological therapies.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability in carrying out clinical audits.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge of complex trauma
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group and the setting, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies to patients specifically ACT, compassion focused therapies, CBT
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel in the local area
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Melanie Staley
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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