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Clinical Associate Psychologist Trainee - Apprenticeship

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Posting date: 25 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £28,407 - £34,581 Per annum, pro rata
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 25 May 2024
Location: Huntingdon, PE29 3RJ
Company: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Apprenticeship
Job reference: 6140526/310-OPAC-6140526

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Summary

A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.


We are delighted to be recruiting Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP trainees) post. The posts will be based in the Huntingdon Older People’s Mental Health service’s Stepped Care Therapy (SCT) team.

This is an exciting new psychology profession that has been approved as a Degree Apprenticeship. During your training phase of around 18 months you will be undertaking the CAP Masters Programme with the University of East Anglia (UEA) while working to develop the clinical skills and competencies essential to the role.

As an apprentice you will be working and being paid full time and the full fees of the course will be paid. The post will be band 5 for the 18-month duration of the course and will move to a band 6 upon successful completion.

Start date with UEA September 2024

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.



*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

The SCT team work with older people who are experiencing the symptoms of moderate to severe functional and organic mental health difficulties. The service is part of a well-established and friendly multi-disciplinary team with a wide range of professionals contributing to the excellent care of the people that we support.

You will work as part of a team of psychologists, occupational therapists, trainee psychologists and psychological therapists working in the locality teams across Huntingdonshire. You will also work with a wider MDT with other parts of the OPMH services. The team place an emphasis on providing formulation-driven, evidence-based interventions. As part of your role you will be involved in team formulation, consultancy and training.

Clinically you will manage a specialised caseload consisting of severe and complex psychological disorders. You will have opportunities to deliver individual interventions and group programmes with support and supervision from applied psychologists.

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 refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

Entry requirements:

You must meet the entry requirements to the Clinical Associate in Psychology Degree Apprenticeship as specified by UEA, have the right to work in England and have valid and eligible residency status to meet the criteria for apprenticeship funding in accordance with Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) rules.

You will also need to have experience relevant to working in health, mental health and/or psychological service setting. You must also be able to travel for work purposes.

During the course you will be at your work base for half of the week. The other half of your week will be spent attending the course. The course will involve approximately 50% face to face teaching at UEA in Norwich and 50% remote learning.

Responsibilities:

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. To provide brief psychological interventions (BPI’s) and maintain a clinical caseload, under supervision.
2. To support the psychology team and wider team in psychological assessment, care planning and the delivery of evidence-based interventions.
3. To assist the psychology team in the development of individual or group clinical materials/training materials, such as the development of treatment manuals and group interventions.
4. To lead the collection, analyses and presentation of outcome measures to support the case for proving the clinical and cost effectiveness of psychological therapies in the team.
5. To support the team in delivering, managing and evaluating other psychological interventions, such as psychology groups.
6. To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service
7. Develop the ability to professionally deliver psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and research within defined scope of practice.
8. Use applied service research and evaluation to inform interventions.
9. Work with individuals and groups with complex needs.
10. Act as a psychological resource providing support to the wider health or social care teams
11. Develop ability to deliver treatment interventions developed with a Clinical Psychologist who will review practice through supervision..
12. Develop ability to conduct risk management assessments and evaluations.
13. Maintain a compassionate, caring and safe care environment
14. Develop a range of psychological treatments working within defined scope of practice, whilst the supervising Clinical Psychologist retains overall clinical responsibility, reporting to a Clinical Psychologist in terms of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
15. Develop understanding of how to analyse and appraise the range of cognitive-behavioural and other psychological assessment methods used within applied clinical practice to underpin assessment, drawing on formulations in psychological theory, providing a clinical framework describing an individual’s problem and/or needs, whilst providing a rationale for how problems have developed and are maintained.


This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024

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