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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.

Contact

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

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Ref: 310-ASMH-7285722 Vacancy ID: 7285722

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Chesterton Medical Centre
Address: 35 Union Lane
Town: Chesterton, Cambridge
Postcode: CB4 1PZ
Major / Minor Region: Cambridgeshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (9am -5pm)

Salary

Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8a)

Specialty

Main area: Clinical Psychologist

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

To provide clinical leadership in the identification, assessment, treatment and evaluation of first episode psychosis (FEP) cases in the CAMEO South team.

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.

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

To provide a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients 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.

To monitor and evaluate progress during both uni-and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this. To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To participate and provide advice to other professionals as required on research design and methodology including complex audit and clinical and service evaluation to help develop service provision

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

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Motivated towards personal and professional development with strong CPD record
Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users and carers
Ability 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
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with service users.
Able to contain and work with high levels of organisational stress
Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information
Ability 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 strong CPD record.
Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.

Desirable criteria

Positive approach to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) including willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude to embrace new ways of working

Other

Essential criteria

Positive approach to EIP.
Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
Able to sit for long periods
Ability to travel independently across the county

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Motivated towards personal and professional development with strong CPD record
Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users and carers
Ability 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
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with service users.
Able to contain and work with high levels of organisational stress
Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information
Ability 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 strong CPD record.
Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.

Desirable criteria

Positive approach to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) including willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude to embrace new ways of working

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
Knowledge of and ability to deliver CBTp and behavioural family therapy
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning. Planning and organising skills for caseload management.
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, 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 supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
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
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Advanced IT and keyboard skills.

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, comorbid conditions, trauma).
Knowledge of service improvement models and their application

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.
In depth experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary team setting.
Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Experience of application of clinical psychology in different contexts.

Desirable criteria

Previous experience of delivering cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis clinical supervision.
Experience of working with people experiencing psychotic symptoms and their families/ working in an EIP setting.
In depth experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care including leadership skills

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC

Desirable criteria

Evidence of post-doctoral training (CBTp, Early Intervention in psychosis,) or willingness to undertake
Chartered Clinical Psychologist.
Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee and qualified clinical psychologists