About this role
Job summary
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Psychologist to join our Neurodevelopmental Team.
The team works with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability and provide assessment and treatment for Autism and ADHD. The team provides mental health assessments of young people with a neurodevelopmental disorder and also psychological therapies for co-morbid mental health disorders.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team and work ethic, sense of accountability, interest in research and service development, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team.
In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.
If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a multidisciplinary team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health issues, then we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
This post allows the post holder an exciting opportunity to provide a specialist clinical psychology service to children and adolescents and their families/carers with a wide spectrum of mental health, developmental and psychological difficulties.
The post will be primarily based in the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team but may be required to work in the Core CAMHS team, as demand requires. The Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team works with young people with ASD, ADHD and/or a Learning Disability in addition to having mental health needs.
The post holder will provide specialist clinical assessments and interventions for children and their families/carers.
About us
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 fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description Job responsibilities
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to the CAMHS team based upon the appropriate use 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, their families and others involved in the clients care (including professionals from other agencies).2. To individually formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatments and/or management of a clients mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual clients, families/carers, and via groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models including developmental, cognitive, learning theory, biological, and neuropsychological, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.4. To provide specialist child neuropsychology assessments, providing advice and consultation on this information to other NHS professionals, clients and their families, and other agencies as appropriate.5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of own (caseholder) clients and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.8. To participate in the CAMHS multi-disciplinary on-call system for emergency referrals, including both weekday and weekend cover.9. To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.10. To regularly deal with family breakdown, serious mental illness and child abuse.
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Person Specification
Education/qualifications Essential
Postgraduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan development psychology. Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.
Desirable
Chartered clinical psychologist Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised area of psychological practice. Training in psychometrics relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disability such as the ADOS, ADI and Vineland
Experience Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and ? Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. ? Experience of working with children and young people who have a learning disability, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of the application of applied psychology in different contexts including CAMHS or Children's Services.
Desirable
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of working with children and young people who have a learning disability, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families
Skills and abilities Essential
Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision. Excellent skills of assessment, formulation, evaluation and treatment, using complex methods frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Evaluation and audit skills. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, careers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Knowledge & Understanding Essential
Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and models of psychopathology and learning relevant to clients in CAMHS. Good knowledge of psychological evidence based interventions applicable to referred clients.
Desirable
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.
Personal Essential
Willingness to be flexible and adaptable. Excellent organisational skills. Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients. Interpersonally calm, able to diffuse difficult, volatile situations. Excellent interpersonal skills enabling formation of networks with professionals from other agencies to promote effective working with clients. An ability to interact with clients of all ages and developmental levels, with complex problems, and who may be or become highly distressed and potentially aggressive. Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential
Desirable
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address Newtown Centre
Nursery Road
HUNTINGDON
PE29 3RJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)