Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Newtown; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team. The role involves assessments and therapy for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and ADHD, within a multidisciplinary framework.

The post emphasises autonomous practice, leadership within the team, and use of research for audit and service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to the Neurodevelopmental team using complex data from tests, self-reports, rating scales, observations and interviews.
• Individually formulate and evaluate plans for psychological treatment for mental health or complex problems across care settings.
• Deliver a range of psychological interventions for children, young people and families, adapting formulations across models.
• Provide specialist child neuropsychology assessments and offer advice to neurodevelopmental professionals and families.
• Lead and contribute to the Neurodevelopmental Service.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions about assessment, formulation, treatment and discharge.

Job description

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a 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. The post will be based in the Central Cambridgeshire area covering Huntingdonshire and Fenland. To provide a qualified, highly specialist psychology service to children and adolescents with a neurodevelopmental disorder. To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to both professional colleagues and staff from other agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the Trust's and the neurodevelopmental pathway's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. 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 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 Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to the Neurodevelopmental team, 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, their families and others involved in the client's care (including professionals from other agencies).
• To individually formulate, plan, implement and evaluate plans for the formal psychological treatment 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, across a range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions 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, neuropsychological, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To provide specialist child neuropsychology assessments, providing advice and consultation based on this information to neurodevelopmental professionals, clients and their families and other agency professionals (especially education) as appropriate.
• To lead and participate in the Neurodevelopmental Service.
• 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.
• 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.
• To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• 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.
• To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of own (caseholder) clients and/or carers and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and joint work with other agencies.
  We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team. The team works with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability as well as providing assessment and treatment for young people with Autism and ADHD. The team provides mental health assessments and psychological therapies for co-morbid mental health disorders.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability and leadership skills, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to qualified clinical psychologists with the right attributes and experience to enhance the team.