Job summary
This is a post working in CUH's Urogynaecology Outpatients Service 2.5 days a week. This is an established role contributing to the multi-disciplinary team management of women, (aged 16 years and above) with mesh complications consequent to mesh insertion vaginally or abdominally for urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse. There are nine Mesh Services nationally and strong links with other services will be developed.
Main duties of the job
They will provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions for the Mesh Service, as well as providing expertise in service, pathway development and evaluation.
There would also be the opportunity to contribute at a regional and national level to good clinical practice and the evidence base for this specialist area. They will also supervise the psychological practitioners working in Urology as well as providing psychological expertise and consultancy to the Mesh Service Multi-disciplinary Team and Urology service.
The post holder with work closely with the mesh MDT which includes the Reconstructive Urology team composed of 3 Urological Consultants, a Specialist Registrar, and a Nurse Specialist. They will also work closely with the Urogynaecology team of 4 Consultant Urogynaecology, a Plastic Surgeon, Consultant Radiologist, and a Colorectal Surgeon (and all their respective Nurse Specialists).
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.
Working with CUHs Mesh Service:
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structuredobservations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To develop psychological formulations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural, and biological factors.
- To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account boththeoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.
- To assist the medical team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed.
- To support the work of the multi-disciplinary team, providing training, supervision, and consultancy, as appropriate.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment,and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the Professional Lead Clinical Psychologist.
- To provide a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
- To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Working with CUHs Mesh Service:
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structuredobservations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To develop psychological formulations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural, and biological factors.
- To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account boththeoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.
- To assist the medical team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed.
- To support the work of the multi-disciplinary team, providing training, supervision, and consultancy, as appropriate.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment,and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of the Professional Lead Clinical Psychologist.
- To provide a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
- To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Psychologists.
Desirable
- Relevant post-doctoral training.
- Chartered Practitioner Psychologist (BPS).
- Training in health psychology.
- Training in psychosexual therapy.
Experience
Essential
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist at a highly specialist level.
- 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 care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience working in a hospital setting.
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience with comprehensive risk assessments and confidence in the appropriate and safe management of risk.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of working with people with physical health conditions.
- Experience of working with patients who have urological and/or gynaecological difficulties.
- Experience of working with people experiencing chronic pain.
- Experience of couple work and psychosexual difficulties.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and treatment.
- Management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring 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.
- Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance.
- Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Advanced IT and keyboard skills.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Expert knowledge of Health Psychology.
- Specialist knowledge of working with this client group or related specialty (pain, urology, gynaecology, surgical teams for example).
- Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this service user group.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of Practitioner Psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group and the setting, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
Desirable
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies relevant to mesh including trauma-focused therapies.
Other
Essential
- Positive approach to older people
- Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Psychologists.
Desirable
- Relevant post-doctoral training.
- Chartered Practitioner Psychologist (BPS).
- Training in health psychology.
- Training in psychosexual therapy.
Experience
Essential
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist at a highly specialist level.
- 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 care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience working in a hospital setting.
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience with comprehensive risk assessments and confidence in the appropriate and safe management of risk.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of working with people with physical health conditions.
- Experience of working with patients who have urological and/or gynaecological difficulties.
- Experience of working with people experiencing chronic pain.
- Experience of couple work and psychosexual difficulties.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and treatment.
- Management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring 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.
- Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance.
- Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Advanced IT and keyboard skills.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Expert knowledge of Health Psychology.
- Specialist knowledge of working with this client group or related specialty (pain, urology, gynaecology, surgical teams for example).
- Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this service user group.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of Practitioner Psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group and the setting, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
Desirable
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies relevant to mesh including trauma-focused therapies.
Other
Essential
- Positive approach to older people
- Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
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).
