Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed-Term)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 310-MASMH-7035139
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrooke's Hospital
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist - Clinical School Mental Health Service (CSMHS)
Band 8a
Job overview
**12 month Fixed-Term Contract**
We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Clinical Psychologist with an interest in providing evidence based psychological therapies to Cambridge University’s Clinical School Mental Heath Service (CSMHS). The post will be based in CPFT’s Psychological Medicine Service working with Medical Students in Cambridge University’s Clinical School.
This is a fixed-term 12-month, part-time, 3 day a week maternity leave cover post, with flexible and hybrid working.
The Psychological Medicine Service includes Liaison Psychiatry and Clinical Health Psychology for both adults and children. There are over 50 Clinical Psychologists working across Adult and Paediatric Psychology. Some of these posts are embedded with specialist teams and others are part of the general services. Psychologists have a professional network within Psychological Medicine and are also part of the CPFT professional group. The service provides placements for the University of East Anglia Clinical Psychology training course.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust provides the Psychological Medicine Services within the acute hospitals in the county, which include, Cambridge University Hospitals, Royal Papworth Hospital, Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital. The Cambridge service has been established over many years and provides high quality services, having an ‘excellent’ rating by the Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Service.
Main duties of the job
This role involves providing evidence-based assessments, formulations, and psychological therapy to Clinical School Students at the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine. The Clinical Psychologist will be part of the Psychological Medicine Service, which encompasses Adult and Paediatric Psychology and Liaison Psychiatry. They will work close with the service’s Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Psychologist, and the Clinical School’s Sub-Dean for Student Welfare.
There is potential to collaborate with other relevant services, contribute to national initiatives and develop research opportunities. You would be part of the Psychological Medicine Service which has expertise in a range of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and there are excellent opportunities to develop skills and attend relevant CPD in clinical health psychology within this well-established service.
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
To provide 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.
Please see attached full job description for more detail.
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.
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 therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post-doctoral training.
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS).
- Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
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.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of Clinical Health Psychology.
- Specialist knowledge of working with this client group.
- 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 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.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other Clinical Psychologists.
Desirable criteria
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies relevant to CSMHS.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- 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. 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.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment, across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
- Substantial experience of working in mental health settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course, and the range of clinical severity. 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 the delivery of psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of teaching training and clinical supervision.
- Able to demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of working with medical students.
- An enthusiasm and/or experience for working within a systemic or interpersonal framework (i.e. cognitive analytical therapy (CAT) or Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Laura Toplis
- Job title
- Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 216167
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