Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 310-MASMH-6382403
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Agenoria House
- Town
- Wisbech
- Salary
- £43,742 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist *Preceptorship opportunity*
Band 8a
Job overview
This 0.54 WTE part-time role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to have multiple employment options but still retain their NHS employment and benefits.
We are excited to advertise a B7-8A Preceptorship/B8A vacancy at the Fenland Adult Locality Team based in Wisbech, North Cambridgeshire.
The Fenland Adult Locality Team provides high quality care to people aged 17-65 who are experiencing moderate-to-severe mental health difficulties. The service consists of supportive and well-established multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals, including a Clinical Associate Psychologist and an Assistant Psychologist. You will also work with a team of psychology colleagues based in the north adult locality teams (covering Peterborough, Fenland and Huntingdon) under the leadership of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
For new qualified applicants, relevant support and experience based on the preceptorship framework will be provided to facilitate the transition into an 8A role. The successful candidate will be appointed at Band 8A if they meet the required person specification and competencies.
Main duties of the job
Your post will involve carrying out specialist psychological assessments, providing therapeutic interventions to people in the community (including group work) and supporting the wider team to develop psychological understandings of people’s difficulties through consultation, formulation and training. We are keen to promote a trauma informed and responsive culture and there will be opportunities to think about how we promote this through training, supervision and reflective practice.
Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. We encourage our psychologists to develop their skills and knowledge through CPD opportunities, and the engagement of service evaluation and research projects. Additionally, there are opportunities to be involved in leadership projects. We also have close links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programme at the University of East Anglia and routinely offer supervised placements within our service.
Please note that this role would involve commute between the main base, satellite site (Fenland Hall at March, PE15 8NQ) and potentially doing home visits.
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.
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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the locality team 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 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 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. This includes responsibility for the delivery of psychological interventions by all team members.
- 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 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 Lead Psychologist.
- 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
- To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
- To attend and contribute to relevant team meetings and case discussion.
- To undertake service orientated and clinically relevant research as agreed by the Professional Psychology Lead.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level training in clinical / counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS and HCPC.
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- Undertaking relevant post-doctoral training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed and proven experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist or BABCP accredited High intensity Psychological Therapist
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care 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 severe mood disorders, psychotic symptoms and repeated, enduring and/or complex trauma
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of mental health
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- 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 judgement skills
- Ability to deliver CBT for people with complex presentation
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain professional clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Capable of being individually accountable for own clinical interventions
- Planning and organising skills for caseload management
- High standard of report writing for communication with professionals from NHS, Local Authority and other agencies, parents/ carers and clients
- 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 colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Advanced keyboard and computer skills
- Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations
Desirable criteria
- High-level knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment of adults
- High-level knowledge and skills in working with carers
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Highly developed knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, psychological aspects of physical health difficulties, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Doctoral level or highly developed knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and its implications for clinical and professional practice
- Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of the adult group
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self care and monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Ability to travel independently
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 Ryan Nah
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07751 970327
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Cara Evans (FALT Team manager)
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