Job summary
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join a team of psychological and occupational therapists.
You will be responsible for conducting psychological assessments, therapeutic interventions for older people in the community, and contribute to the wider team's psychological understandings of people's difficulties through consultation, supervision and training.
Located in the Cathedral city of Peterborough that has a diverse community in an urban and rural setting. The service provides high quality care to people aged 65 and above, who are experiencing the symptoms of moderate to severe mental health difficulties, either affective or psychosis.
The scope of the service includes treating people with dementia post diagnostically or with specialist neuro psychological assessments to inform diagnosis.
You would be part of a friendly and well established multi-disciplinary team with a range of professionals contributing to the excellent care of the people that we support. Recovery principles are embedded in our work and we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life.
Main duties of the job
Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. We encourage our psychologists to develop their skills and knowledge with CPD opportunities.
We believe that research is central to the development and maintenance of effective teams and interventions. Our psychologists have close links with the Doctoral Clinical Psychology course at the University of East Anglia and routinely place their trainees within our service.
A number of psychologists within the trust have completed 'Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care' fellowships (CLAHRC). Clinical psychologists provide important input into the strategic development of services and there are future opportunities to engage in leadership development programmes.
We have a commitment to research and service audits in the field of mental health and the team is currently collaborating on a number of interesting projects.
For further details / informal visits contact:Christine.Robertson@cpft.nhs.ukChristine Robertson - North Area manager
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.
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 note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
The post holder will work with supervisors and 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 of the clinical activity.
- Staff are appropriately skilled and trained to deliver the service and to provide supervision.
- Supervision arrangements are in place for all elements of service delivery.
- Provide clinical supervision in the service, including the facilitation of trainee placements from Doctorate Training Programmes.
We have a commitment to research and service audits in the field of mental health and the team is currently collaborating on a number of interesting projects.
- To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies Service in the in the relevant locality. This is both clinic, and community based (and may include residential care and domestic settings), working with people with functional and organic mental health problems, and those living with long term conditions, according to the agreed stepped care procedures.
- To contribute to the wider Integrated Care Team Duty clinician system.
- To provide highly specialist assessment and therapy. Where it is appropriate to professional competence, to provide neuropsychological assessment. To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other carers.
- To provide supervision and guidance for staff within the service including more junior psychological therapists, trainee clinical psychologists, trainee cognitive behavioural therapists and mental health practitioners where appropriate.
- With the support of the Lead Clinical Psychologist for Older People in the relevant locality to develop and provide innovative services to meet the psychological needs of patients of the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies Service, in accordance with evidencebased practice.
- The posts budgetary or management responsibilities include the appropriate use of the Trusts resources.
- In the absence of the Team Leader and/or Principal Psychologist for Older People to cover in rotation with other colleagues, some delegated managerial aspects of the role.
- To ensure accurate record keeping for the referral process and interventions from all practitioners using the agreed information systems.
- To work with the other senior clinicians to provide relevant information and data to the team and service managers and professional leads as required.
- To work within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
- To provide relevant teaching, training and supervision within the service and where appropriate across the Trust.
- To attend the agreed meetings, liaising with the Professional Lead, supervisor and team manager on matters of service development.
- To work with senior colleagues to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies service and the mental health service, and to disseminate this information widely.
Join our team and made a positive impact on the lives of our service users.
*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
The post holder will work with supervisors and 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 of the clinical activity.
- Staff are appropriately skilled and trained to deliver the service and to provide supervision.
- Supervision arrangements are in place for all elements of service delivery.
- Provide clinical supervision in the service, including the facilitation of trainee placements from Doctorate Training Programmes.
We have a commitment to research and service audits in the field of mental health and the team is currently collaborating on a number of interesting projects.
- To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies Service in the in the relevant locality. This is both clinic, and community based (and may include residential care and domestic settings), working with people with functional and organic mental health problems, and those living with long term conditions, according to the agreed stepped care procedures.
- To contribute to the wider Integrated Care Team Duty clinician system.
- To provide highly specialist assessment and therapy. Where it is appropriate to professional competence, to provide neuropsychological assessment. To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other carers.
- To provide supervision and guidance for staff within the service including more junior psychological therapists, trainee clinical psychologists, trainee cognitive behavioural therapists and mental health practitioners where appropriate.
- With the support of the Lead Clinical Psychologist for Older People in the relevant locality to develop and provide innovative services to meet the psychological needs of patients of the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies Service, in accordance with evidencebased practice.
- The posts budgetary or management responsibilities include the appropriate use of the Trusts resources.
- In the absence of the Team Leader and/or Principal Psychologist for Older People to cover in rotation with other colleagues, some delegated managerial aspects of the role.
- To ensure accurate record keeping for the referral process and interventions from all practitioners using the agreed information systems.
- To work with the other senior clinicians to provide relevant information and data to the team and service managers and professional leads as required.
- To work within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
- To provide relevant teaching, training and supervision within the service and where appropriate across the Trust.
- To attend the agreed meetings, liaising with the Professional Lead, supervisor and team manager on matters of service development.
- To work with senior colleagues to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the Older Peoples Stepped Care Therapies service and the mental health service, and to disseminate this information widely.
Join our team and made a positive impact on the lives of our service users.
*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Person Specification
Education and 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. Or an advanced qualification in CBT (usually post graduate diploma in cognitive therapy) and accredited with the BABCP
- Registration with Health Professions Council as a Practitioner 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 masters or Doctoral level.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified Specialist Clinical Psychologist or psychological therapist 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
- 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
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist with older people with mental health problems
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Have a lived experience of mental health challenges.
Skills & Abilities
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, complex, highly technical and/or 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 mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
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 selfcare and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Good organisational skill
- 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 and 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. Or an advanced qualification in CBT (usually post graduate diploma in cognitive therapy) and accredited with the BABCP
- Registration with Health Professions Council as a Practitioner 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 masters or Doctoral level.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified Specialist Clinical Psychologist or psychological therapist 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
- 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
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist with older people with mental health problems
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Have a lived experience of mental health challenges.
Skills & Abilities
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, complex, highly technical and/or 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 mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
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 selfcare and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Good organisational skill
- 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).
