Clinical Psychologist

CPFT; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team, providing specialist assessments and psychological interventions for children and adolescents with ASD, ADHD and learning disabilities.

The post is in a multidisciplinary setting, requires HCPC registration and doctoral training in clinical psychology, and involves travel around Cambridgeshire with a full UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology with HCPC registration.
• Registration with HCPC as Clinical Psychologist and chartered status.
• Experience in CAMHS or neurodevelopmental settings is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents in CAMHS.
• Develop and implement psychological treatments for neurodevelopmental and co-morbid mental health conditions.
• Formulate and review treatment plans with a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Driving licence

Education

Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

HCPC registration as Clinical Psychologist

Chartered clinical psychologist

Job description

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Psychologist to join our Neurodevelopmental Team.

The team works with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability and provide assessment and treatment for Autism and ADHD. The team provides mental health assessments of young people with a neurodevelopmental disorder and also psychological therapies for co-morbid mental health disorders.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team and work ethic, sense of accountability, interest in research and service development, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team.

In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a multidisciplinary team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health issues, then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This post allows the post holder an exciting opportunity to provide a specialist clinical psychology service to children and adolescents and their families/carers with a wide spectrum of mental health, developmental and psychological difficulties.

The post will be primarily based in the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team but may be required to work in the Core CAMHS team, as demand requires. The Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team works with young people with ASD, ADHD and/or a Learning Disability in addition to having mental health needs.

The post holder will provide specialist clinical assessments and interventions for children and their families/carers.

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 fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

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

• 1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to the CAMHS team based upon the appropriate use 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, their families and others involved in the client’s care (including professionals from other agencies).


• 2. To individually formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatments and/or management of a client’s mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy.


• 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual clients, families/carers, and via groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models including developmental, cognitive, learning theory, biological, and neuropsychological, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.


• 4. To provide specialist child neuropsychology assessments, providing advice and consultation on this information to other NHS professionals, clients and their families, and other agencies as appropriate.


• 5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.


• 6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client’s formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.


• 7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of own (caseholder) clients and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.


• 8. To participate in the CAMHS multi-disciplinary on-call system for emergency referrals, including both weekday and weekend cover.


• 9. To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.


• 10. To regularly deal with family breakdown, serious mental illness and child abuse.

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Person specification

Education/qualifications

• Postgraduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan development psychology.


• Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.


• Chartered clinical psychologist


• Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised area of psychological practice.


• Training in psychometrics relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disability such as the ADOS, ADI and Vineland

Experience

• 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 Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of working with children and young people who have a learning disability, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.


• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different contexts including CAMHS or Children’s Services.


• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.


• Experience of working with children and young people who have a learning disability, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families

Skills and abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.


• Excellent skills of assessment, formulation, evaluation and treatment, using complex methods frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.


• Evaluation and audit skills.


• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, careers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.


• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to emotive material and challenging behaviour.


• Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and models of psychopathology and learning relevant to clients in CAMHS.


• Good knowledge of psychological evidence based interventions applicable to referred clients.


• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.


• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.

Personal

• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.


• Excellent organisational skills.


• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.


• Interpersonally calm, able to diffuse difficult, volatile situations.


• Excellent interpersonal skills enabling formation of networks with professionals from other agencies to promote effective working with clients.


• An ability to interact with clients of all ages and developmental levels, with complex problems, and who may be or become highly distressed and potentially aggressive.


• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential


• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.


• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;


• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;


• Children’s community services in Peterborough;


• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity .

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.