Clinical Psychologist

Transformationunitgm; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and social care organization is seeking an innovative and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join their Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team in Peterborough. The role involves providing specialized psychological services to individuals in crisis, contributing to assessments, treatment plans, and consultations. Ideal candidates will possess a doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC, along with significant experience in psychological care.

Qualifications

• Experience in specialist psychological assessment and treatment across various settings.
• Worked with diverse mental health conditions and their families.
• Lived experience of mental health or multicultural frameworks is valued.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and interventions for patients in crisis.
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on psychological formulations.
• Work collaboratively with non-psychologist colleagues for patient care coordination.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Psychological formulation

Psychological intervention

Risk assessment

Consultation skills

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Job description

Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Cavell Centre Town Peterborough Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/06/2025 23:59

Clinical Psychologist

Band 8a

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, creative and enthusiastic Band 8 Psychologist to join the Peterborough Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. The Crisis team operate at the interface between community and acute care systems, supporting people in crisis flexibly, often at home. The team also support families and carers, and liaise with the other supporting teams and agencies involved in people’s care.

The Peterborough Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (HTAS) and has a strong focus on delivering high quality care to service users and their friends and family.

Main duties of the job

Under the overall co-ordination of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, to provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to patients of the Crisis and Home Treatment Team and with some input to the admission ward (AAU).

To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.

To work with patients in crisis and their carers who at times are experiencing high levels of distress and some of whom may become challenging both verbally and physically.

To provide advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other carers.

To contribute to the training and supervision of non-psychologist staff in
psychological interventions; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The post does not have any budgetary responsibilities.

To work with patients within their own homes and other community and NHS venues. At times there will be lone working in these environments, where there is an expectation to follow the relevant safety protocols.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

To provide psychological assessments of patients referred to the Crisis and Home Treatment (CRHT) based upon 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 patients, family members and others.

To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations integrating information from a range of sources and to communicate these with colleagues to inform care plans (as above).

To develop and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health illness.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, working in a collaborative way.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the supervising Clinical Psychologist and CRHT leadership
team.

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

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological understanding of risk assessment and management, in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.

To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information that may be highly contentious or distressing.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical 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/HCPC
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of working with people experiencing a range of mental health symptoms and their families.
• Lived experience of mental health
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Skills & Abilities

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management
• Planning and organising skills for caseload management
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice
• Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information
• Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised, evidence based psychological therapies in specific groups (e.g. personality disorders, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.)
• Ability to deliver family interventions
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and its implications for clinical and professional practice
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Physical Requirements

• Ability to tolerate sitting for extended periods

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.