Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Systemic Psychotherapist
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6340511/310-MASMH-6021342-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
We are advertising a number of highly specialist psychologist and/or systemic therapist posts across different specialties. We invite applications from individuals who seek all or part of the advertised posts.
The available posts are as follows:
• 0.6 WTE Cystic fibrosis and Respiratory Medicine (Cambridge base; Clinical Psychologist only due to national service specification)
• 0.5 WTE Gastroenterology
• 0.6 WTE Complications of Excess Weight (Practitioner Psychologist due to skill mix in team)
Posts will be based at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.
The posts forms part of the larger team for Psychological Medicine for Children Young People and Families, based within Addenbrookes Hospital and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
The roles provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to children and their families up to the age of 16 years both on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
Work is autonomous within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. Also, to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
The Psychological Medicine Service for Children Young People and Families is dedicated to meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with complex medical and surgical needs in hospital based settings at Cambridge University Hospital Trust and North West Anglia Foundation Trust.
The job involves assessment and delivery of care involving both the patient and parents and family systems where there are often complex social needs.
The intervention level ranges from the specialist tertiary multidisciplinary team level and associated paediatric surgical ward nursing teams to community paediatric teams, social work, education and primary health care.
Interventions routinely cross professional and Acute Health Trust and Community Mental Health Trust boundaries and sometimes involve Child Protection work.
The job involves physical effort of the nature of sitting in constrained position for extended patient / client therapy sessions, frequent intense concentration on assessment and formulation. It is sometimes highly distressing, dealing with such issues as chronic illness and family breakdown, and may deal with issues such as acute physical distress or illness, death, serious mental illness and child abuse.
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 disabled people 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
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the psychological medicine 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 structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• 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 as well as health needs and impact of health problems on the family.
• To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of hospital and community based settings.
• 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 and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group. To do this in the context of health and surgical interventions.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other multidisciplinary professionals, both within hospital and community settings, contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To supervise qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists; as well as other professionals undertaking psychological work, as appropriate.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across the designated area 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 act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the patient’s psychological needs, coordinating the work of others involved with psycho-social care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the patient, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.
• To produce reports in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To maintain the required record keeping.
• To assist in the management of the clinical psychology team caseload.
• To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Jun 2024
We are advertising a number of highly specialist psychologist and/or systemic therapist posts across different specialties. We invite applications from individuals who seek all or part of the advertised posts.
The available posts are as follows:
• 0.6 WTE Cystic fibrosis and Respiratory Medicine (Cambridge base; Clinical Psychologist only due to national service specification)
• 0.5 WTE Gastroenterology
• 0.6 WTE Complications of Excess Weight (Practitioner Psychologist due to skill mix in team)
Posts will be based at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.
The posts forms part of the larger team for Psychological Medicine for Children Young People and Families, based within Addenbrookes Hospital and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
The roles provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to children and their families up to the age of 16 years both on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
Work is autonomous within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. Also, to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
The Psychological Medicine Service for Children Young People and Families is dedicated to meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with complex medical and surgical needs in hospital based settings at Cambridge University Hospital Trust and North West Anglia Foundation Trust.
The job involves assessment and delivery of care involving both the patient and parents and family systems where there are often complex social needs.
The intervention level ranges from the specialist tertiary multidisciplinary team level and associated paediatric surgical ward nursing teams to community paediatric teams, social work, education and primary health care.
Interventions routinely cross professional and Acute Health Trust and Community Mental Health Trust boundaries and sometimes involve Child Protection work.
The job involves physical effort of the nature of sitting in constrained position for extended patient / client therapy sessions, frequent intense concentration on assessment and formulation. It is sometimes highly distressing, dealing with such issues as chronic illness and family breakdown, and may deal with issues such as acute physical distress or illness, death, serious mental illness and child abuse.
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 disabled people 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
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the psychological medicine 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 structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• 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 as well as health needs and impact of health problems on the family.
• To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of hospital and community based settings.
• 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 and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group. To do this in the context of health and surgical interventions.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other multidisciplinary professionals, both within hospital and community settings, contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To supervise qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists; as well as other professionals undertaking psychological work, as appropriate.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across the designated area 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 act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the patient’s psychological needs, coordinating the work of others involved with psycho-social care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the patient, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.
• To produce reports in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To maintain the required record keeping.
• To assist in the management of the clinical psychology team caseload.
• To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Jun 2024