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Principal Psychologist - Lead Psychologist for FALT & HALT
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Mawrth 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 17 Ebrill 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Wisbech, PE13 3AB |
| Cwmni: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7042109/310-MASMH-7042109 |
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A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
16-month Fixed-Term Contract
We are looking for a motivated principal psychologist to join the Fenland and Huntingdon Adult Locality Teams (FALT and HALT). This is an adult community mental health leadership post. FALT and HALT are based in the market towns of Wisbech (Agenoria House) and Huntingdon (Newtown Centre) respectively. The successful postholder will be expected to be based at both sites but some flexible working could be considered. There may be a possibility of contract extension subjected to the right conditions.
The adult locality teams provide high quality care to people aged 17-65 who are experiencing mental health difficulties in the moderate-to-severe range, with additional concerns about safety or functional impairment. The service consists of supportive and well-established multi-disciplinary teams of healthcare professionals from a range of backgrounds. You will work with a team of 12 psychology colleagues based in the adult locality teams in the north region of the Trust (covering the geographical areas of Peterborough, Fenland and Huntingdon) under the leadership of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Psychologists within the adult locality teams are continually developing a directory of interventions, including brief psychological interventions and therapeutic groups (one of which has been evaluated and published in a peer-reviewed journal). Additionally, we are research active and psychologists have taken on principal investigator roles.
The main duties of the post holder include:
1. The provision of clinical leadership and line management related responsibilities, including strategic thinking and monitoring of service delivery, to the psychology staff in FALT and HALT
2. Providing specialist psychological assessment and direct and/or indirect intervention in accordance to the NICE guidelines
3. Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to MDT colleagues and carers
4. Liaising with external care providers and statutory agencies to support people and their families on their journey to wellbeing
5. Training and on-going supervision for staff
6. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
7. Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. CPFT fully supports professional clinical supervision requirements. Supervision will be provided by colleagues with expertise and experience of working with a variety of mental health problems. The North Adult Locality psychology team also meets bimonthly for CPD and networking reasons. Furthermore, we have close links with the University of East Anglia and University of Cambridge ClinPsyD and MPhil in Foundation of Clinical Psychology programmes, respectively.
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.
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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• To provide clinical leadership and line management related responsibilities, including strategic thinking and monitoring of service delivery, to the psychology staff in FALT and HALT.
• To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to the psychology service within North Cambridgeshire Adult Locality Teams based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. This includes 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
• 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 care 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 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 Lead Psychologists.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to 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
• To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multidisciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this
• To produce reports on clients, 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 assist the Team and Service Manager in the management of the team caseload.
• To attend and contribute to relevant Team meetings and case discussion
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Apr 2025
16-month Fixed-Term Contract
We are looking for a motivated principal psychologist to join the Fenland and Huntingdon Adult Locality Teams (FALT and HALT). This is an adult community mental health leadership post. FALT and HALT are based in the market towns of Wisbech (Agenoria House) and Huntingdon (Newtown Centre) respectively. The successful postholder will be expected to be based at both sites but some flexible working could be considered. There may be a possibility of contract extension subjected to the right conditions.
The adult locality teams provide high quality care to people aged 17-65 who are experiencing mental health difficulties in the moderate-to-severe range, with additional concerns about safety or functional impairment. The service consists of supportive and well-established multi-disciplinary teams of healthcare professionals from a range of backgrounds. You will work with a team of 12 psychology colleagues based in the adult locality teams in the north region of the Trust (covering the geographical areas of Peterborough, Fenland and Huntingdon) under the leadership of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Psychologists within the adult locality teams are continually developing a directory of interventions, including brief psychological interventions and therapeutic groups (one of which has been evaluated and published in a peer-reviewed journal). Additionally, we are research active and psychologists have taken on principal investigator roles.
The main duties of the post holder include:
1. The provision of clinical leadership and line management related responsibilities, including strategic thinking and monitoring of service delivery, to the psychology staff in FALT and HALT
2. Providing specialist psychological assessment and direct and/or indirect intervention in accordance to the NICE guidelines
3. Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to MDT colleagues and carers
4. Liaising with external care providers and statutory agencies to support people and their families on their journey to wellbeing
5. Training and on-going supervision for staff
6. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
7. Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. CPFT fully supports professional clinical supervision requirements. Supervision will be provided by colleagues with expertise and experience of working with a variety of mental health problems. The North Adult Locality psychology team also meets bimonthly for CPD and networking reasons. Furthermore, we have close links with the University of East Anglia and University of Cambridge ClinPsyD and MPhil in Foundation of Clinical Psychology programmes, respectively.
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.
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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• To provide clinical leadership and line management related responsibilities, including strategic thinking and monitoring of service delivery, to the psychology staff in FALT and HALT.
• To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to the psychology service within North Cambridgeshire Adult Locality Teams based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. This includes 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
• 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 care 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 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 Lead Psychologists.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to 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
• To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multidisciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this
• To produce reports on clients, 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 assist the Team and Service Manager in the management of the team caseload.
• To attend and contribute to relevant Team meetings and case discussion
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Apr 2025