Perinatal Clinical Psychologist – Preceptorship Available B7- B8A
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1PR |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6058131/310-MASMH-6058131 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
We are excited to offer this opportunity for a clinical/counselling psychologist to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service. We believe that passion and transferable skills are invaluable so for those with less experience, we are able to offer a Band 7 development post.
We are a secondary care multi-disciplinary service (with an innovative and expanding therapy team), working with women with severe or complex mental health needs who are pregnant or have a child under one. The post-holder will work across the south of the county, with an office base in Cambridge. We operate a hybrid working model and travel for home visits will be required.
Perinatal Mental Health is a growing specialty and provides opportunity for you to develop specialist skills. You will draw on a range of models to provide therapeutic intervention, including individual, group, and dyadic work between parent and infant.
We would encourage applications from individuals (including those about to qualify) with an interest in the specialty, regardless of previous experience. You will have the opportunity to join an exceptional team, with the resources and passion to invest in you, including specialist training.
If you are successful, we will expect you to contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service to clients of the Perinatal Mental Health Service. This will involve conducting psychological assessments and providing therapy, drawing on a range of models, to women and their families. You will do so through individual, group and dyadic work between parent and infant.
You will be expected to supervise, and support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, and working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery teams. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.
We will expect you to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Perinatal Mental Health Service. To support the development of the service you will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area serviced by the Perinatal Mental Health Service.
In this role you will be part of the Psychological Medicine Service and therefore you will be able to access peer supervision and support through this team.
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 and empowering 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.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. Working with mothers, babies and other family members and other team members to provide specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological test, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations 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.
3. To assist the Perinatal Mental Health Service team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed to mothers and families.
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence based psychological interventions for users of the Perinatal Mental Health Service in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
5. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
6. 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 hospital and inter-agency policies and procedures.
7. To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.
8. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
9. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.
10. To offer a systemic, reflective, and psychological perspective within the team around our understanding of families as well as team and organisational dynamics.
11. To significantly contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, and development of the psychological services aspect of the perinatal mental health pathway, operational policies, and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
We are excited to offer this opportunity for a clinical/counselling psychologist to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service. We believe that passion and transferable skills are invaluable so for those with less experience, we are able to offer a Band 7 development post.
We are a secondary care multi-disciplinary service (with an innovative and expanding therapy team), working with women with severe or complex mental health needs who are pregnant or have a child under one. The post-holder will work across the south of the county, with an office base in Cambridge. We operate a hybrid working model and travel for home visits will be required.
Perinatal Mental Health is a growing specialty and provides opportunity for you to develop specialist skills. You will draw on a range of models to provide therapeutic intervention, including individual, group, and dyadic work between parent and infant.
We would encourage applications from individuals (including those about to qualify) with an interest in the specialty, regardless of previous experience. You will have the opportunity to join an exceptional team, with the resources and passion to invest in you, including specialist training.
If you are successful, we will expect you to contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service to clients of the Perinatal Mental Health Service. This will involve conducting psychological assessments and providing therapy, drawing on a range of models, to women and their families. You will do so through individual, group and dyadic work between parent and infant.
You will be expected to supervise, and support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, and working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery teams. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.
We will expect you to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Perinatal Mental Health Service. To support the development of the service you will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area serviced by the Perinatal Mental Health Service.
In this role you will be part of the Psychological Medicine Service and therefore you will be able to access peer supervision and support through this team.
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 and empowering 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.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. Working with mothers, babies and other family members and other team members to provide specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological test, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations 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.
3. To assist the Perinatal Mental Health Service team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed to mothers and families.
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence based psychological interventions for users of the Perinatal Mental Health Service in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
5. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
6. 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 hospital and inter-agency policies and procedures.
7. To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.
8. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
9. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.
10. To offer a systemic, reflective, and psychological perspective within the team around our understanding of families as well as team and organisational dynamics.
11. To significantly contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, and development of the psychological services aspect of the perinatal mental health pathway, operational policies, and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024