Job summary
We have a wonderful opportunity for a dynamic and motivated psychologist to support in the delivery and supervision of Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirements for a 12-month fixed contract to cover maternity leave. This is a part-time position of 30hrs a week which can be flexible within the needs of the service.
The successful postholder will be joining the Cambridgeshire Liaison and Diversion service who access and support vulnerable people within the criminal justice system.
The service delivers Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTR) for adults within the demographic area.
The post holder will be the lead psychologist for the service, provide supervision to the assistant psychologists completing structured assessments of offenders who the courts are considering placing on a primary MHTR order.
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.
Main duties of the job
Supervision will typically take place over the of the assistant psychologists by phone or video call following the assistant completing the assessment. There will also be opportunity for the post holder to hold their own small caseload of 1:1 therapeutic work.
The post holder will need to consider the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources to help the assistant determine suitability for the offender to be offered a MHTR.
The post holder would also be expected to hold clinical responsibility for and supervise the delivery of 1:1 psychological interventions comprising the MHTR provided by the assistant psychologists. Additionally, the postholder would be expected to undertake risk assessment and risk management of offenders prior to them commencing manualised treatment programmes with an assistant psychologist.
To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge of offenders receiving manualised treatment under MHTRs, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions are communicated with the assistant psychologist providing the treatments.
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
- To formulate risk and clinical need in collaboration with team members.
- To formulate plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of offenders based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks of risk management, mental health, family systems and individual psychological functioning.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about risk management and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental, and systemic processes that have shaped the offender.
- To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to offenders formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
- To provide clinical expertise to the Liaison and Diversion Service, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to offenders.
- To manage risk and improve outcomes for offenders by providing weekly supervision to assistant psychologists who will be working with offenders to offer them psychological treatment under Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) ordered by the courts as a part of a Community Order.
- To be available to discuss referrals for MHTRs with an assistant psychologist on three days of the working week.
- To hold a small case load of direct 1:1 therapeutic work with service users who have received a MHTR who may have more complex needs or may require treatment input that cannot be delivered by an Assistant Psychologist.
- To provide consultation and clinical expertise to colleagues in the Liaison andDiversion service to encourage a psychological approach in their work and to facilitate their professional development, reflective capacity and the effective and safe delivery of Liaison and Diversion Services.
- To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research, particularly with respect to evaluating the MHTRs and monitoring outcome for the interventions provided by the assistant psychologist.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To formulate risk and clinical need in collaboration with team members.
- To formulate plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of offenders based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks of risk management, mental health, family systems and individual psychological functioning.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about risk management and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental, and systemic processes that have shaped the offender.
- To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to offenders formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
- To provide clinical expertise to the Liaison and Diversion Service, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to offenders.
- To manage risk and improve outcomes for offenders by providing weekly supervision to assistant psychologists who will be working with offenders to offer them psychological treatment under Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) ordered by the courts as a part of a Community Order.
- To be available to discuss referrals for MHTRs with an assistant psychologist on three days of the working week.
- To hold a small case load of direct 1:1 therapeutic work with service users who have received a MHTR who may have more complex needs or may require treatment input that cannot be delivered by an Assistant Psychologist.
- To provide consultation and clinical expertise to colleagues in the Liaison andDiversion service to encourage a psychological approach in their work and to facilitate their professional development, reflective capacity and the effective and safe delivery of Liaison and Diversion Services.
- To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research, particularly with respect to evaluating the MHTRs and monitoring outcome for the interventions provided by the assistant psychologist.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology including specifically, models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Registered with the HCPC
Desirable
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist
- Undertaking relevant post-doctoral training
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Positive problem-solving approach
- Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with clients from diverse backgrounds.
- Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts
Desirable
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
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 psychological assessment, formulation and treatment using a cognitive behavioural model.
- 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts. Experience of working with adults who have complex and serious mental health problems.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Speciality.
Desirable
- Experience of presenting psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience working with adults with mental health issues and complex trauma within the criminal justice system
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- 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 methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with clients from diverse backgrounds.
- Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge or experience working with relationships, attachment issues or complex trauma.
- Personal Experience of coping with life stressors.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Sustained periods of sitting.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
- Ability to travel and work flexibly across different locations in Cambridgeshire.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology including specifically, models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Registered with the HCPC
Desirable
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist
- Undertaking relevant post-doctoral training
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Positive problem-solving approach
- Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with clients from diverse backgrounds.
- Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts
Desirable
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
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 psychological assessment, formulation and treatment using a cognitive behavioural model.
- 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts. Experience of working with adults who have complex and serious mental health problems.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Speciality.
Desirable
- Experience of presenting psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience working with adults with mental health issues and complex trauma within the criminal justice system
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- 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 methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with clients from diverse backgrounds.
- Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge or experience working with relationships, attachment issues or complex trauma.
- Personal Experience of coping with life stressors.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Sustained periods of sitting.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
- Ability to travel and work flexibly across different locations in Cambridgeshire.
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
Peterborough/Cambridge
53 Thorpe Road
Peterborough/Cambridge
PE3 6AN
Employer's website
https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
