Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 8AH |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7254345/310-MASMH-7101777-A |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist, with a specialist interest in neuropsychology, to join the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (CCPNR).
This 12-month fixed term/secondment contract offers an opportunity to contribute to this pioneering service, offering specialist holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation to children and adolescents with acquired brain injury, across the East of England. The post holder will have expertise in assessment and intervention with children and young people with acquired brain injury and working interdisciplinarity.
As a member of a 10 strong interdisciplinary service, you will be senior member of the team with the skills and specialist knowledge to support the needs of children and young people with non-progressive acquired brain injury. Their needs may be complex with a range of interacting cognitive, social, emotional and physical difficulties.
The CCPNR is a specialist community service for children with non-progressive acquired brain injuries in the East of England. It is a dynamic, innovative service provided by CPFT that has an international reputation for delivery of integrated, multidisciplinary neuro-rehabilitation for children. CCPNR is part of the Psychological Medicine for Children and Families service which is well established at Addenbrookes Hospital.
To provide a qualified, highly specialist psychology service to children and adolescents with a brain injury and their families.
To work collaboratively with interdisciplinary colleagues to formulate young people's presenting needs and provide multi systemic interventions at home and at school in the delivery of goal based rehabilitation. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the Trust’s and the CCPNR's policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within childhood ABI. To support the Clinical Lead with the everyday management of the service.
As an interdisciplinary team, we work very closely together with children and families. We have a positive work culture and engage in activities to support wellbeing.
The CCPNR is at Brookside, Trumpington Road, Cambridge. We share close links with the Paediatric Psychological Medicine Department at Addenbrookes Hospital.
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.
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
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 highly specialist paediatric neuropsychological assessments of children/young people referred to the 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, parents/carers, teachers, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To develop neuropsychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, which incorporates anatomical, physiological and developmental perspectives.
To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s cognitive, social, behavioural and emotional difficulties, 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 children/young people, their parents/carers, families and groups, within the Service, adjusting and refining psychological formulations by drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and the highly complex and integrative factors associated with the acquired brain injury and developmental processes. To maintain an awareness of other historical factors, which may have shaped the child/young person, his/her parents/carers and the family.
To provide highly specialist paediatric neuropsychological 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 for the benefit of all children/young people referred to 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 act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients’ needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care and to monitor progress during the course of interdisciplinary interventions.
To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, parents/carers, family and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and prognosis of clients under their care.
The team is constantly developing through research, audit and service user collaborations. As such we are looking to recruit an experienced clinical psychologist who has an interest in service development. The post holder will support the Clinical Lead in the day to day management of the team and implementation of new processes and policies. This will include rostering, leave, allocations, and liaison with Integrated Care Boards about new referrals.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025