Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and highly skilled Principal Clinical Psychologist to join the Orthopaedic Psychological Support Team, a Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation (CPFT) Service on a secondment/fixed term contract. The postholder will join a dedicated team supporting children, young people, adults, families and staff affected by the orthopaedic incident and ongoing clinical review of the surgeon's work.

The post will be initially based at the Beacon Centre, Fulbourn.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will play a central role in delivering psychologically informed support to people experiencing psychological distress relating to their healthcare experiences. The successful applicant will join a developing multidisciplinary pathway, contributing a compassionate, trauma informed and family centred response. The role will provide a highly specialist psychological service including direct clinical work, consultation to teams, psychological formulation, risk assessment, staff support and shaping the overall model of care to affected families. It will include management and clinical supervision of clinical, trainee and assistant psychologists in the service.

Work is autonomous within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. Also, to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.The service is committed to ensuring the voices and experiences of patients and families remain central to ongoing learning, support and improvement.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a service focused on compassionate support, recovery, learning and rebuilding trust following an extremely difficult period for many families.

About us

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 andempowering 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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

To provide highly specialist assessments of clients referred to the Orthopaedic Psychological Support Service, using, interpreting and integrating 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 clients care. To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological and systemic theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological and/ or systemic interventions and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and/ or systemic 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. 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. To provide highly specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically and systemic 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 act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging reviews as required, and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
• Undertaken formal training in the supervision e.g. of pre and post qualified clinical/ counselling psychologists or systemic practitioners. oRegistered with the HCPC

Desirable

• Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Relevant specialist training in child and adolescent mental health or paediatrics

Experience

Essential

• Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/ counselling 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 also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of delivering professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of managing staff.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytic skills.
• Skills in individual and group work and programme planning.
• Excellent communication skills, able 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
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Planning and organising skills for own caseload management and that of other psychological therapists working in the team.

Desirable

• Knowledge of neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD, ASD and learning disability

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• High level of knowledge of psychological interventions for CYP and families
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and setting, and its implication for both clinical practice and professional management.
• Knowledge of specific safeguarding, child protection and risk issues relevant to this group of CYP.

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• High level knowledge and skills in working with parents and carers.

Other

Essential

• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Beacon

Block 18, Ida Darwin site

Fulbourn, Cambridge

CB21 5EE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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