Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/HCPCreg/other accredited therapist

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to provide specialist assessments and psychological interventions for children and adolescents. The role involves working collaboratively with families and other professionals to deliver high-quality mental health services. Candidates should possess doctoral-level training in psychology and experience in clinical settings. This position offers opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people.
• Skills in complex psychological assessment and intervention.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents.
• Formulate and implement psychological treatment plans.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Risk Assessment

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Qualification in mental health

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 CAMHS, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with young people, their families and others involved in the young person's care (including professionals from other agencies).
2. To individually formulate, plan, implement and evaluate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a young person'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, across a range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions in own area of speciality for individual children and young people, families/carers, and via groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models including developmental, cognitive, learning theory, biological, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. 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 and their family and/or carers or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of own clients, and to manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving these children and their families.
8. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and/or carers and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and joint work with other agencies.
9. To communicate in a highly 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.
10. 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.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training in clinical, Educational or Counselling psychology with HCPC registration OR Qualification in a relevant field of mental health, health, social welfare, or education and qualified and accredited with the BABCP in an approved course in CBT OR Qualification in a relevant field of mental health, health, social welfare, or education and qualified and accredited/HCPC registered in a relevant psychotherapy (e.g. Art psychotherapy, Integrative psychotherapy, etc.) at postgraduate diploma level or above AND significant CPD in providing CBT-informed interventions.

Desirable criteria

• Accredited by the relevant UK governing body in supervision of psychological therapists and trainees employing therapy in own area of expertise.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of children, young people and families across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care or 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 using current, evidence based, stepped care models of care as detailed in NICE guidance. Planning and organising skills for caseload management.
• Experience of undertaking risk assessments and managing risk; care coordination and addressing safeguarding issues.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of using Routine Outcome Measures (ROM)
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working with children and young people who have complex mental health difficulties
• Experience of working in a CAMHS or NHS setting.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.

Desirable criteria

• Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning.
• 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.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

• Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
• 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.
• Knowledge of typical and atypical child development including motor, social, play and language milestones; risk-assessment and risk.
• Knowledge of attachment; mentalisation; reflective practice and how to engage children and young people.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of specific child protection and risk issues relevant to this group of CYP.

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel.

Other

Essential criteria

• Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
• Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of selfcare and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.

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 and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• 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

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

• Band 7 CAMHS JDPS (PDF, 384.6KB)
• CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
• CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
• CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)