Clinical Psychologist

Cambscommunityservices; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Peterborough is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to support their inpatient adult wards. The role involves psychological assessment, intervention, collaboration with nursing teams, and offers significant professional development opportunities. This Band 7 position seeks a chartered professional with experience across various care settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in specialist psychological assessment and intervention required.
• Chartered status with valid UK professional registration needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and interventions for patients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support psychologically minded practices.
• Maintain clinical records and produce timely psychological reports.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Psychological assessment

Crisis management

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Cavell Hospital Town Peterborough Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/07/2025 23:59

Clinical Psychologist

Band 7

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our inpatient adult wards based at the Cavell Centre (AAU, Treatment, Recovery, and PICU). You will focus on providing input and support across the Treatment and Recovery wards.

The role is in it's infancy, and the successful candidate will have some scope to shape their portfolio with support and under guidance. Unlike a community role, a significant part of this role will involve working with the nursing team, providing reflective practice sessions, joint formulation and supporting the development of behavioural interventions for nursing staff. You will be involved in a small caseload of patients from the Treatment and Recovery wards.

We are passionate about developing staff and there are significant opportunities in this role for professional development. If you are interested in the opportunity, please get in touch.

Main duties of the job

You will be providing support and input for our Treatment and Recovery wards in Peterborough. You will be expected to provide specialist psychological assessments and formulation for the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental and/or health problems. You will also be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions. As a senior clinician you will be expected to adjust and refine treatments and formulations based on different explanatory models.

Your role will also involve working with the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to promote and support psychologically minded practice. You will be expected to provide advice and consultation for your MDT colleagues. Supporting your colleagues may also involve providing clinical supervision for psychological interventions. You will need to liaise with other professionals in CPFT and our partner organisations to provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to support the analysis of client’ problems and disorders.

This is a multifaceted role and there is a significant opportunity with support for developing and piloting innovative practice to provide better support for our service users and colleagues in the Treatment and Recovery wards.

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 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

• To contribute to the development and promotion of best practice in psychology across the service, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
• To maintain and develop the profile of psychology within the Trust, regionally and nationally as appropriate during all professional contacts with patients, carers, colleagues and the public.
• To contribute to the reduction of risk in areas of responsibility.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
• To produce psychological reports and notes in a timely manner and to provide management information in line with Trust policies and procedures in a timely manner.
• To work in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, The BPS Code of Conduct and HCPC Professional Practice Guidelines and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this.

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, or a HCPC Statement of Equivalence.
• Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, 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.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of dealing with situations where clients are verbally and physically aggressive.

Knowledge and Skills

• 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 judgement skills.
• Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning.
• Planning and organising skills for caseload management.
• 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.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group. Eg. MHA (1983)
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• The skills to adapt psychological therapies to acutely mentally ill and personality disordered clients.

Other

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting.

Personal

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective teamworking with clients.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
• Able to contain and work with organisational stress.
• Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
• Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
• Good organisational skills

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.