Practitioner Psychologist/Cognitive Behaviour Therapist Doddington.

Job summary

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical /Counselling Psychologist or Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join our Stepped Care Therapy Team within Older Peoples' Mental Health Secondary Care Services in Fenland.

The friendly and supportive team comprises of Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists and an OT Assistant. We regularly host trainees from all disciplines. We are a proactive team who use a broad range of therapeutic approaches and work in a person-centred way.

The role will include assessment, formulation and evidence-based intervention including, where appropriate, specialist neuropsychological assessment.

The post holder will also provide supervision and consultation for mental health colleagues and work closely with both mental and physical health staff. The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, an ability to work under considerable pressure, and have a passion for working with older people.

We aim to support staff to develop specialist knowledge and expertise, for the benefit of our service and patients. Creativity and innovation are encouraged.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology, counselling psychology or psychological therapy service to clients referred to Older People's Stepped Care Therapies Service in the Fenland locality.

This is across all sectors of care (in outpatient day service, inpatient, residential care and domestic settings) working with people with functional and organically based mental health problems.

This will involve providing specialist assessment and therapy, including where it is appropriate to professional competence providing neuropsychological assessment.

To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, taking responsibility for psychological input to one of the OPMH teams.

To provide supervision and guidance for more junior staff including Trainee Clinical Psychologists, Trainee Cognitive Behaviour Therapists and Mental Health Practitioners where appropriate.

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 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 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.

• The post holder will be expected to contribute to the clinical activity of the service. This will involve holding a clinical caseload, including:
• Providing psychological therapy interventions for cases referred to the team. This will involve the use of evidence based psychological interventions in both individual and group work formats e.g., CBT.Formulating, implementing and evaluating therapy programmes for clients.
• Ensuring treatment delivery remains accessible, convenient and with minimal waiting times as agreed by senior clinicians and managers.Providing clinical supervision in the service.
• Undertaking risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and providing advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
• Communicating, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others, information that may be contentious or highly distressing.
• Producing 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.
• Working in partnership with other disciplines including attending multidisciplinary meetings relating to referral or clients in treatment where appropriate
• The post holder will work with senior clinicians and other managers to:
• Ensure that there is a clinical audit programme developed.Ensure that all of the required evaluation data is produced in a timely manner.
• Establish local research priorities and develop a research programme in line with local policies.
• Produce reports by using the date which has been collected for the service.
• Help to collate and disseminate the results of clinical audits and service evaluations.
• The post holder will contribute to the on-going operation and development of the service by working with the senior clinicians and other managers to be involved with:
• Data collection for the on-going evaluation of the service.Promotion of the Older Peoples Therapies Service locally to GP practices and nationally as appropriate.
• The post holder will work with the senior clinicians and other managers to:
• Ensure that regular reports are provided for all of the information required for the ongoing and evaluation of the Stepped Care Therapies Service.
• Ensure that all staff complete information requirements as required by local protocols.

The post holder will:

• Participate in regular supervision (clinical or management) in accordance with good practice guidelines and Trust policy.
• Participate in the Trusts annual Appraisal process. attend all relevant mandatory training as and when required to do so.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Implement NICE guidance and other statutory / best practice guidelines.
• Be responsible for the prevention and control of infection.

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Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate level training in clinical or applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan development psychology as accredited by the BPS or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
• A registered qualification in health care at graduate level in nursing, social work, allied health professional PLUS PG dip post qualification further training in a specialised area of psychological practice e.g. CBT.
• Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or the BABCP if a CBT Therapist.

Desirable

• Undertaken post qualification training in a specialised area of psychological practice e.g. neuropsychology, CBT, CAT, DBT, solution focused therapy, analytical therapy, systemic / family work etc.
• Undertake training in the supervision of trainees and other therapists.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of mental health care settings.
• Experience of working in mental health services for older people with experience of holding a caseload, assessment, care planning and delivery of psychological interventions.
• 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 distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of working with complex and enduring mental health difficulties.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Have a lived experience of mental health challenges.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
• Planning and organising skills for caseload management.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate affectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
• 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 highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies.

Other

Essential

• Positive approach to older people.
• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting.

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

Alan Conway Court Doddington Hospital, Benwick Road. Doddington. PE15 0UG United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

Locality Lead Psychologist Dr Neil Watson Neil.Watson@cpft.nhs.uk 07534294931