Job summary
We are seeking an experienced, innovative, and enthusiastic Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our exciting new Universities of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Mental Health Student Service (UCARMHSS) pilot which is set to launch in 2025.
This new service will offer multiple pathways: psychiatry, psychology, and care coordination, allowing students to access tailored interventions. The goal is to improve access to support for students' mental health, inform about available support, and guide them in managing their mental health.
Key features of the service include:o A focus on student needs rather than diagnosis, with every referral undergoing thorough triage and, where necessary, formulation assessments.o Proactive support to help students succeed academically and socially at university.o Flexible access to services, with face-to-face, telephone, video, and other online options available to meet individual preferences.o Comprehensive care coordination, encompassing assessment, case management, self-management support, and liaison with university services.
Main duties of the job
o This post allows the post holder an exciting opportunity to provide a specialist applied psychology service to. students from the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University who present with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.o To provide specialist psychological assessments and therapy as well as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to professional colleagues and staff from other agencies.o To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the Trust's and the service's policies and procedures.o To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
About us
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of students referred to UCARMHSS 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 and others involved in the clients care (including professionals from other agencies).2. 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.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual clients, 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.4. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of own (case holder) clients and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.8. To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.9. To regularly deal with serious mental illness and trauma.10. The postholder will need to be able to work flexibly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of students referred to UCARMHSS 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 and others involved in the clients care (including professionals from other agencies).2. 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.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual clients, 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.4. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of own (case holder) clients and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.8. To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.9. To regularly deal with serious mental illness and trauma.10. The postholder will need to be able to work flexibly.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate doctoral level qualification (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS - or expectation that the qualification will be achieved within six months of application for the post. Training to specifically include: models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan development psychology.
- Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist - or the expectation that registration will be achieved within six months of application for the post.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care 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 applied psychology in different contexts
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Excellent skills of assessment, formulation, evaluation and treatment, using complex methods frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, careers 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 emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Good knowledge of psychological evidence-based interventions applicable to referred clients.
Desirable
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate doctoral level qualification (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS - or expectation that the qualification will be achieved within six months of application for the post. Training to specifically include: models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan development psychology.
- Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist - or the expectation that registration will be achieved within six months of application for the post.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care 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 applied psychology in different contexts
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Excellent skills of assessment, formulation, evaluation and treatment, using complex methods frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, careers 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 emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Good knowledge of psychological evidence-based interventions applicable to referred clients.
Desirable
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Student Services Centre, University of Cambridge
New Museum site, Bene't Street
Cambridge
CB2 3PT
Employer's website
https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
