Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health - Child and Adolescent
- Grade
- Band 7-8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-CYPF-7290969
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clare Lodge
- Town
- Glinton, Peterborough
- Salary
- £46,148 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Applied Psychologist - development opportunity
Band 7-8a
Job overview
This is an 8A post, but we would welcome applicants who are looking for a B7 to 8A development post in a supportive context- an opportunity for either a newly qualified band 7 applied psychologist with career progression potential, or an established band 8a Applied psychologist to join the Multidisciplinary Clare Lodge In Reach Health Team.
Clare Lodge is a leading national provider of secure accommodation "welfare" only placements and the only all female unit in the UK. The service is governed by Peterborough City Council and works in a collaborative way with CPFT to provide an intensive and therapeutic environment, including an in-reach psychiatric and psychological and physical healthcare provision. Clare Lodge works within the integrated framework for secure care, ensuring all interventions and care plans across departments (health, education and residential) are psychologically informed.
Our expanding healthcare team provides a wide range of interventions and assessments for the young people detained at Clare Lodge and trauma informed training and reflective practice for the staff and the system. We are a friendly, passionate, and patient focussed team who are dedicated to working alongside our Local authority partners to improve both health and social outcomes and deliver the best possible care.
Main duties of the job
Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. We encourage our psychologists to develop their skills and knowledge with CPD opportunities. We believe that research is central to the development and maintenance of effective teams and interventions. Our psychologists have close links with the Doctoral Clinical Psychology course at the University of East Anglia and routinely place their trainees within our service. Applied psychologists provide important input into the strategic development of services and there are future opportunities to engage in leadership development programmes.
We have a commitment to research and service audits in the field of secure care and trauma informed practice, with a particular focus on the experience and needs of girls, and the team is currently collaborating on a number of interesting projects.
Relevant support and experience will be provided to ensure that successful newly qualified applicants will be able to transition into an 8a clinical psychology post after demonstrating significant post-qualifying experience and meeting the requirements for the role.
For further details / informal visits contact:
[email protected]
Please be advised that relocation expenses may be payable on this vacancy. Successful applicants must currently live within the UK and more than 40 miles away from the base address of the vacancy. For full terms and conditions please email [email protected]
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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To provide psychological assessments of clients at Clare Lodge. 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.
2. 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.
3. To use psychological formulations 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, and to use these plans to inform and lead the work of non-psychology members of the wider MDT, including care and education staff.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a trauma informed framework (namely the attachment regulation competencies model) of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
9. 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.
10. 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.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate/Doctoral level professional qualification regulated by a recognised Professional body eg NMC/HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Training in a trauma informed framework
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a multi-agency pathway, using formulations to develop and support the delivery of interventions
- Experience of and interest in working therapeutically, with young people who have significant complex health difficulties and high risk behaviours.
- Experience of delivering consultation and training to other professionals and health colleagues.
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management in relation to high risk behaviour to self and/or others.
- Experience of assessing and managing risk in a community setting and to work effectively within safeguarding procedures in the context of a therapeutic service.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with young people in residential settings
- Experience of working in a secure setting
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- The application of skills to support clients with multiple and intersecting needs involving relational disruption and trauma.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in a range of evidence-based models in the assessment and treatment of complex health issues
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- The ability to provide consultation and training to other professional and non-professional groups
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Well-developed knowledge in developmental psychology, attachment and trauma theories
- Knowledge of the Attachment Regulation Competencies Framework
- Knowledge of the integrated framework for secure care.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of how a trauma informed approach is useful in a setting with multiple agencies
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 Sophie Mulvana
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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