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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-MASMH-7540537 Vacancy ID: 7540537

Practitioner Psychologist CUH Urogynaecology Mesh Service

Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Addenbrooke's Hospital
Address: Hills Road
Town: Cambridge
Postcode: CB2 0QQ
Major / Minor Region: Cambridgeshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 Per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8b)

Specialty

Main area: Clinical Psychology

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Working with CUH’s Mesh Service:

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To develop psychological formulations 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 psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
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.
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 individual, family, carers or group.
To assist the medical team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed.
To support the work of the multi-disciplinary team, providing training, supervision, and consultancy, as appropriate.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the Professional Lead Clinical Psychologist.
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 communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.

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

Essential criteria

Doctoral level training in Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Psychologists.

Desirable criteria

Relevant post-doctoral training.
Chartered Practitioner Psychologist (BPS).
Training in health psychology.
Training in psychosexual therapy.

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist at a highly specialist level.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient, and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Experience working in a hospital setting.
Experience working in a multi-disciplinary setting.
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Experience with comprehensive risk assessments and confidence in the appropriate and safe management of risk.

Desirable criteria

Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Experience of working with people with physical health conditions.
Experience of working with patients who have urological and/or gynaecological difficulties.
Experience of working with people experiencing chronic pain.
Experience of couple work and psychosexual difficulties.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and treatment.
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. Skills in self-management, including time management.
Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate 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.
Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
Advanced IT and keyboard skills.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

Expert knowledge of Health Psychology.
Specialist knowledge of working with this client group or related specialty (pain, urology, gynaecology, surgical teams for example).
Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of this service user group.
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of Practitioner Psychology.
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
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

High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies relevant to mesh including trauma-focused therapies.

Other

Essential criteria

Positive approach to older people
Recognise people’s 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.