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Principal Applied Psychologist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE2 8TY |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6500696/310-MCYPF-6500696 |
Summary
Peterborough Child Exploitation and Missing Team is located within Children’s Social Care to respond to all missing notifications and co-ordinate return home interviews alongside other Children’s Social Care Teams and the Constabulary CE Hub. The team work with the constabulary and children’s social care to ensure timely and meaningful contact with children who are missing, and / or, exposed to exploitation. The team focus on building trusted relationships with young people, to build social capital and support them as they move through adolescence. They will collocate within the multi-agency Targeted Youth Support Service and the Constabulary CE Hub.
The Child Exploitation and Missing Team works with children and young people at moderate and significant risk of harm in relation to experiencing child exploitation and wider contextual risk. Working alongside existing safeguarding processes, led by Children’s Social Care, they contribute to plans that focus on increasing safety. The team work creatively alongside the young person, family/carer and professional group ensuring a meaningful response to children during ‘reachable’ moments. They aim to reduce ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that increase vulnerability to exploitation, forming trusted relationships with those identified at being at risk.
This role requires a HCPC registered psychologist with substantial knowledge and experience of work within Forensic / criminal justice settings and be able to adapt that experience to working with children and young people who are involved on the youth justice system or at risk of criminal exploitation.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency system with the following key roles;
• To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality psychology service to service users and carers receiving services from the Exploitation and Missing team across
Peterborough
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within this service/team, and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other which the post holder has designated professional responsibility.
• To support the Team manager in implementing policy and service development changes within the team.
The role requires the provision of internal psychological consultancy to non-psychologists on psychological risk factors related to mental health issues, neurodevelopmental disorders and forensic behaviour.
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.
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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
To provide an applied psychology service to young people known to the Exploitation and Missing Service including:
• To work professionally as part of an inter-agency team.
• To carry out psychometric testing as appropriate.
• To complete specialist forensic risk assessments as needed.
• To provide psychological interventions those are aimed at changing the offending behaviour of children/young people, and improve overall well-being and functioning. .
• To refer to other appropriate professionals for the delivery of appropriate interventions and/or treatments
• To provide consultation and formulation meetings to case managers to assist them in the understanding and management of risks and dangerousness and in the delivery of complex interventions with young people.
• Working within the Exploitation and Missing Service, to provide the highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex date from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and other involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining the psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To make highly skilled evaluations and 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 or group.
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Aug 2024