Job summary
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There is an exciting opportunity to work with older adult clients and help improve their psychological wellbeing. We are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Stepped Care Therapies Service within Older Peoples' Mental Health Secondary Care Services in Peterborough.
The friendly and supportive team comprises of Clinical Psychologists, a CBT Therapist, Occupational Therapists, and OT Assistant. We regularly host Trainee Clinical Psychologists and have a dynamic approach to learning and quality care.
We work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team and are supportive of creative and innovative ways of working in a city and rural context which is culturally diverse .
The breadth of work within this dynamic service is stimulating and would enable opportunities for the successful candidate to consolidate their clinical expertise as well as develop wider skills as a senior clinician.
There is a New Hire Bonus and relocation expenses attached to this post for external candidates, new to CPFT.
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Christine Robertson for further information on 03308080765.
Main duties of the job
The candidate's role would include the provision of assessment, formulation and evidence-based intervention including, where appropriate, specialist neuropsychological assessment. There is an expectation that the post holder would provide supervision and consultation input for both psychology and non-psychology colleagues.
The role would involve multidisciplinary working with both mental and physical health staff. The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times and have a passion for working with older people.
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 older people with functional and organic mental health needs then we want to hear from you.
This post could be combined with a local OPMH inpatient post CPFT we are advertising.
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.
The post holder will work with colleagues within the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies Service to ensure that:
- Clinical interventions are implemented in line with evidencebased practice including the latest NICE guidelines.
- Procedures are in place for the operation of the service.
- Clinical governance arrangements are in place to cover all clinical activity.
- Staff are appropriately skilled and trained to deliver the service and to provide supervision.
- Provide clinical supervision in the service, including trainee clinical psychologists.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the clinical activity of the service. Therefore the post holder will be expected to:
- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
- Provide psychological therapy interventions for cases referred to the team. This will involve the use of evidence-based psychological interventions in both individual and group-work formats.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
- Adhere to all clinical policies and procedures.
- Maintain high clinical standards in all aspects of the work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
The post holder will work with colleagues within the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies Service to ensure that:
- Clinical interventions are implemented in line with evidencebased practice including the latest NICE guidelines.
- Procedures are in place for the operation of the service.
- Clinical governance arrangements are in place to cover all clinical activity.
- Staff are appropriately skilled and trained to deliver the service and to provide supervision.
- Provide clinical supervision in the service, including trainee clinical psychologists.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the clinical activity of the service. Therefore the post holder will be expected to:
- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
- Provide psychological therapy interventions for cases referred to the team. This will involve the use of evidence-based psychological interventions in both individual and group-work formats.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
- Adhere to all clinical policies and procedures.
- Maintain high clinical standards in all aspects of the work.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
- Registration with Health Professions Council as a clinical psychologist.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
Desirable
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist.
- Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Other relevant academic qualifications to Master's or doctoral level.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified Specialist
- Clinical Psychologist within mental health setting(s).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified CPA care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different contexts.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision including at least three trainee clinical psychologists.
- Experience of leading a service development / improvement project within mental health services.
Desirable
- Have a lived experience of mental health challenges.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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.
- Skills in self-management, including time-management.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms, including regular supervision, for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HPC.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- 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.
- 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.
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Good organisational skills
- Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting
- Ability to travel independently in the community
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
- Registration with Health Professions Council as a clinical psychologist.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
Desirable
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist.
- Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Other relevant academic qualifications to Master's or doctoral level.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified Specialist
- Clinical Psychologist within mental health setting(s).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified CPA care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different contexts.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision including at least three trainee clinical psychologists.
- Experience of leading a service development / improvement project within mental health services.
Desirable
- Have a lived experience of mental health challenges.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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.
- Skills in self-management, including time-management.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms, including regular supervision, for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HPC.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- 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.
- 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.
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Good organisational skills
- Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting
- Ability to travel independently in the community
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).
