Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-ASMH-6290734-A
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrooke's Hospital
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist- CUH Urogynaecology-Mesh Service
Band 8b
Job overview
This is a permanent part time (0.5 WTE) Clinical Psychologist post. The post is based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, one of nine national Mesh Services. You will be an inspiring and forward-thinking Clinical Psychologist, interested in working at the forefront of Psychological Medicine with a highly psychologically minded medical team, with the potential to develop psychological expertise in the area of pelvic mesh removal. There is also additional time in a urology post if required.
This is a unique post in a developing service with the extremely exciting opportunity to develop your leadership and service development skills. We welcome applications from Clinical Psychologists with an interest in urology, gynaecology and clinical health psychology.
Whilst the Mesh Outpatient Service is a CUH service, Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists are employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), to work into the hospital teams. We have over 40 Clinical Psychologists in the Psychological Medicine Service, working across the age range, and linked with a large variety of specialties. Each Psychologists has expertise within medical specialties, and are accredited in a range of therapeutic modalities, these include CBT, CAT, IPT, ACT and CFT and EMDR, so there are many opportunities to develop skills through supervised practice.
Main duties of the job
There is an increasing focus on the psychological aspects of urology and gynaecology with Clinical Psychology playing a key role in improving patient’s psychological wellbeing, reducing psychopathology with evidence based psychological assessments and interventions, facilitating complex decision-making around treatments, lead to fewer medical interventions, improve quality of life, and reduce demand of medical services and further surgical interventions. The post holder will be the Principal Clinical Psychologist for the Mesh Service.
They will provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions for the Mesh Service, as well as providing expertise in service and pathway development and evaluation. There would also be the opportunity to contribute at a regional and national level to good clinical practice and the evidence base for this specialist area. They will also supervise the psychological practitioners working in Urology as well as providing psychological expertise and consultancy to the Mesh Service Multi-disciplinary Team and Urology service.
The post holder with work closely with the mesh MDT which includes the Reconstructive Urology team composed of 3 Urological Consultants, a Specialist Registrar, and a Nurse Specialist: the Urogynaecology team with 4 Consultant Urogynecologists, a Plastic Surgeon, Consultant Radiologist and a Colorectal Surgeon (and all their respective Nurse Specialists).
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
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.
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
- Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post-doctoral training
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS)
- Training in clinical health psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical 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
- An enthusiasm and/or experience for working within a systemic or interpersonal framework (i.e. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)) or Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT)
- 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 Clinical 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 Clinical 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
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
- Laura Toplis
- Job title
- Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223216167
- Additional information
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this post.
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