Job summary
The Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Hub are looking for an experienced Clinical psychologist with the right skills to complement our Multi-disciplinary team.You will work within our newly commissioned day service and will network closely with our existing community teams and inpatient services helping families and young people to thrive.
As a new service there will be lots of opportunity for contributing to the new model of care for eating disorders in the region and opportunities for Audit and research to demonstrate our outcomes.Your clinical work will be a mixture of individual and group-based activities.
We will provide Supervision, training, and opportunities for professional development. We are passionate about improving standards and service user/carer experiences.
It would be preferable if you have experience working with young people and their families, and/or Eating disorders, but we are happy to receive applications from those who can demonstrate transferable skills.
This role will initially be based at our Ida Darwin site in Fulbourn before relocating in approx. 12 months (date TBC) toour Brookside Family Consultation Clinic in Cambridge.
Main duties of the job
o To provide a qualified clinical psychology service, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non- psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the organisations policies and procedures.o To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/serviceo The post holder will provide a highly specialist psychology service to children/young people and their families/carers. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments for children/young people with highly complex presentations and psychological consultation to other professionals involved in their care.
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 children who are referred to the service
2. To provide appropriate bio-psycho-social formulations, consultation and advice based upon analyses of the range of available complex psychological information concerning children/young people who are referred to the service and their risks.
3. To exercise autonomous clinical responsibility on occasion for implementing a range of psychological interventions with children/young people, their families/carers, adjusting, interpreting, and reformulating the psychological models as appropriate on the basis of feedback, monitoring and follow up.
4. To supervise, on occasion where appropriate, the delivery of highly complex psychological interventions as part of multi-disciplinary care planning.
5. To be active in risk assessment and complex risk management of children/young people who may be at risk to themselves and/or others, and/or may be vulnerable and at risk of physical, sexual, or emotional harm.
6. To produce clinical reports on children/young people, in a timely manner, that convey the complex analysis and recommendations to the relevant audience.
7. To support the safe and effective transitions for children/young people
8. To develop and contribute to the teaching/training of other professionals within child health and allied services
9. To promote team working, psychologically safe and constructive relationships
10. To actively participate in clinical and managerial supervision.
11. To provide supervision of assistant and newly qualified psychologists, plus other specialist practitioners
12. To offer a placement to trainee psychologists where appropriate.
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 children who are referred to the service
2. To provide appropriate bio-psycho-social formulations, consultation and advice based upon analyses of the range of available complex psychological information concerning children/young people who are referred to the service and their risks.
3. To exercise autonomous clinical responsibility on occasion for implementing a range of psychological interventions with children/young people, their families/carers, adjusting, interpreting, and reformulating the psychological models as appropriate on the basis of feedback, monitoring and follow up.
4. To supervise, on occasion where appropriate, the delivery of highly complex psychological interventions as part of multi-disciplinary care planning.
5. To be active in risk assessment and complex risk management of children/young people who may be at risk to themselves and/or others, and/or may be vulnerable and at risk of physical, sexual, or emotional harm.
6. To produce clinical reports on children/young people, in a timely manner, that convey the complex analysis and recommendations to the relevant audience.
7. To support the safe and effective transitions for children/young people
8. To develop and contribute to the teaching/training of other professionals within child health and allied services
9. To promote team working, psychologically safe and constructive relationships
10. To actively participate in clinical and managerial supervision.
11. To provide supervision of assistant and newly qualified psychologists, plus other specialist practitioners
12. To offer a placement to trainee psychologists where appropriate.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctoral level training (or equivalent), qualifying the postholder to work as a clinical or counselling psychologist.
- Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of trainees.
- Relevant specialist training in adolescent mental health disorders.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist, highly complex assessment, formulation and treatment of patients with eating disorders and complex mental health problems and their families/carers across settings including community, outpatient and other settings.
- Experience of multidisciplinary teamwork.
- Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for a person's psychological care and treatment independently and within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of training/clinical supervision of assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
- Contributions to audit, service evaluation and development.
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and adolescents.
- Service user involvement/co-production.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- To contribute to risk assessments and management plans.
- Be able to work flexibly and co-operatively both with various teams and professional groups/agencies.
- Be committed to continuous quality and service improvement.
- Be able to contain and work with organisational stress and be able to "hold" the stress of others.
- Knowledge of risk assessment and risk management
- Good knowledge of clinical governance.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctoral level training (or equivalent), qualifying the postholder to work as a clinical or counselling psychologist.
- Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of trainees.
- Relevant specialist training in adolescent mental health disorders.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist, highly complex assessment, formulation and treatment of patients with eating disorders and complex mental health problems and their families/carers across settings including community, outpatient and other settings.
- Experience of multidisciplinary teamwork.
- Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for a person's psychological care and treatment independently and within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of training/clinical supervision of assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
- Contributions to audit, service evaluation and development.
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and adolescents.
- Service user involvement/co-production.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- To contribute to risk assessments and management plans.
- Be able to work flexibly and co-operatively both with various teams and professional groups/agencies.
- Be committed to continuous quality and service improvement.
- Be able to contain and work with organisational stress and be able to "hold" the stress of others.
- Knowledge of risk assessment and risk management
- Good knowledge of clinical governance.
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).
