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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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Ref: 310-ASMH-7262102 Vacancy ID: 7262102

Clinical Psychologist

Accepting applications until: 18-Aug-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 18-Aug-2025 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cyfeiriad: Hills Road
Tref: Cambridge
Cod post: CB2 0QQ
Major / Minor Region: Cambridgeshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (n/a)
Oriau: Part time - 15 hours per week

Salary

Cyflog: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 8a)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Clinical Psychologist

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

To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the psychological medicine service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation 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 patients, significant other
and others involved in the patient’s care.

To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors as well as health needs and impact of health problems on the patient and wider system.

To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of hospital and community-based settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the patient, family, carers or group. To do this in the context of health and surgical interventions.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,
psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of patients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other multidisciplinary professionals, both within hospital and community settings, contributing directly to patients’ psychological formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across the designated area and agencies serving the patient group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.

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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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

Education / Qualifications

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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 as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence
Registered with the Health Care Professions Council

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Chartered Clinical Psychologist

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 Clinical Psychology in different contexts

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Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Experience of working within a psychological medicine setting
Experience and interest in applying systemic approaches in relation to working in complex teams and organisations
Experience of working with adults who have a hearing loss and supporting hearing related issues eg tinnitus, poor mental health, low self-esteem
Experience of neuropsychological assessments, formulations and interventions with adults

Skills & Abilities

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Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgment skills
Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning
Planning and organising skills for caseload management
Skills in self-management, including time-management
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers 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 highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Skills in providing consultation and support to other professional and non-professional groups or clinical team colleagues
Advanced keyboard skills
Able to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

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Skills or training in British sign language

Knowledge & Understanding

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Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of this patient group
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient groups and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

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High Level Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health

Physical Requirements

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Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting

Other

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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with patients
Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from patients
Able to contain and work with organisational stress
Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations
Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information
Able to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice
Good organisational skills
Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record