Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the CAMHS Central Core Team. The team works with young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties (aged up to 17 years old).
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic and sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of an established MDT striving to make a difference for our community by supporting young people with mental health issues, then we want to hear from you. The post will be based in the Central Cambridgeshire area covering Huntingdonshire and Fenland.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
Job Purpose
- This post allows the post holder an exciting opportunity to provide a specialist clinical or counselling 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 Core CAMHS team but sometimes may be required to work in the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team, as demand requires.
- The post holder will provide specialist clinical assessments and interventions for children and their families/carers.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 clients care (including professionals from other agencies).
- To individually formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatments and/or management of a clients mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy.
- 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.
- 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.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- 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.
- To participate in the CAMHS multi-disciplinary on-call system for emergency referrals, including both weekday and weekend cover.
- To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.
- To regularly deal with family breakdown, serious mental illness and child abuse.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
Job Purpose
- This post allows the post holder an exciting opportunity to provide a specialist clinical or counselling 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 Core CAMHS team but sometimes may be required to work in the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team, as demand requires.
- The post holder will provide specialist clinical assessments and interventions for children and their families/carers.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 clients care (including professionals from other agencies).
- To individually formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatments and/or management of a clients mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy.
- 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.
- 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.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- 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.
- To participate in the CAMHS multi-disciplinary on-call system for emergency referrals, including both weekday and weekend cover.
- To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.
- To regularly deal with family breakdown, serious mental illness and child abuse.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical, Educational or Counselling psychology
- HCPC registered
Desirable
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Undertaken relevant post-doctoral training.
Experience
Essential
- 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, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching
- Experience of working with children and families with mental health difficulties or neurodevelopmental conditions.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Good knowledge of psychological evidence-based interventions applicable to referred clients.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical, Educational or Counselling psychology
- HCPC registered
Desirable
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Undertaken relevant post-doctoral training.
Experience
Essential
- 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, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching
- Experience of working with children and families with mental health difficulties or neurodevelopmental conditions.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Good knowledge of psychological evidence-based interventions applicable to referred clients.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
