Practitioner Psychologist/Systemic Therapist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Cwmni: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7373464/310-MASMH-7177344-A |
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This is an onsite, in person role with the purpose to work within the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The post forms part of the multi-disciplinary Paediatric Psychological Medicine Team, employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and working into, and commissioned by, paediatric services at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The post holder will be clinical supervised by the Lead Clinical Psychologist for PICU.
The role is to provide a qualified highly specialised psychological service to families whose child is on PICU, as well as supporting the staff working with them.
The role will involve liaison with wider hospital colleagues, such as with colleagues on other paediatric wards, as well as liaison with hospice and community stakeholder teams surrounding the child and family’s care.
The 8a Clinical Psychologist/Practitioner Psychologist/Systemic Psychotherapist for PICU will provide assessment, formulation and intervention to parents and families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients where appropriate.
Work is autonomous within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust and team policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
This job involves working with children in intensive care who have acute, complex medical and surgical needs. The post holder is required to provide assessment and delivery of psychologically informed care, involving both the patient, parents/guardian and family systems where there are 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.
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 develop trauma-informed 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 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 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 communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to patients / clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients / clients under their care.
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 Thursday 7 Aug 2025