Job summary
- Main area
- Health Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 29.5 hours per week (Within Monday to Friday office hours)
- Job ref
- 310-MASMH-7177344
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
We Would like to recruit a positive, enthusiastic, values-led colleague to a band 8a Clinical Psychologist post working into the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
The post is based at Addenbrookes hospital as part of a larger Paediatric Psychological medicine team providing chiefly outpatient care, accepting referrals from Paediatric specialties within Addenbrookes.
The posts work alongside the multi-disciplinary teams for each of the specialties - Each represent distinct challenges for our patient groups and the successful applicants will represent the Paediatric Psychological Medicine team, enhancing the patient experience, providing seamless packages of care and promoting the integration of physical and mental health. Longer term goals will include working towards the creation of and working in the Cambridge Children's Hospital of the future.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
The psychologist will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. As well as being embedded in specialty multi-disciplinary teams you will work as a part of a large and growing Paediatric Psychological Medicine team consisting chiefly of Psychologists but also of Counsellors, Nurses, Psychiatrists and a family Therapist.
The size and growth of the team will create options for learning about new specialisms, formal training opportunities and career progression.
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
psychological medicine 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 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 as well as health needs and impact of health problems on the family.
To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of hospital and community based settings.
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.
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 do this in the context of health and surgical interventions.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or Counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- HCPC Registration
- Competency in administering and interpreting psychological assessments
Desirable criteria
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist / Chartered Counselling Psychologist
- Undertaking relevant post-doctoral training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient 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 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 the application of clinical psychology in different contexts.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of working within a paediatric medical setting.
- Experience of working systemically with children and families
- Experience and interest in applying systemic approaches in relation to working in complex teams and organizations
- Experience and genuine interest in working with children and their families in medical settings.
- Lived experience of mental health.
- Experience of delivering bereavement care and support.
- Experience of delivering psychologically informed debriefs.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients.
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users and team members.
- Able to contain and work with organisational stress. Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
- 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 judgment skills.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client groups and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. • 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 families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- 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 families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable criteria
- High Level Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of the impact of an intensive care admission on children, young people and their families
- Knowledge of trauma and bereavement models of support
- Knowledge of staff support models of support
Other
Essential criteria
- To tolerate high levels of psychological distress and trauma responses.
- To tolerate exposure to acutely unwell patients and their families.
- Recognize 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
- Sarah-Jane Archibald
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 216 878
- Additional information
Eliane Young - Consultant Psychologist - [email protected]
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