Clinical Associate Psychologist Trainee - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

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The Psychological skills service was set up last year to address gaps in psychological treatment that exist between primary and secondary care.

It is a service that is continually developing and expanding. As a service, we put a strong emphasis on psychological formulation and a phased approach to treatment.

We are delighted to be recruiting a CAP trainee to work in the Psychological Skills Service.

This new work based training role will increase diversity in our psychology workforce and provide an opportunity for psychology graduates to deliver patient facing care developing their career in the NHS.

The CAP trainee role is a degree level apprenticeship which is a job with academic training to develop new knowledge & skills, gaining the qualification and practical experience for your long-term career path.

As an apprentice, you are employed and paid a salary for the work that you do.

You are entitled to the same rights as other employees:
a contract of employment, 27 days paid holiday per year, plus bank holidays.

This is an exciting new psychology profession that has been approved as a Degree Apprenticeship.

During your training phase of around 18 months you will be undertaking the CAP Masters Programme with the University of East Anglia (UEA) while working to develop the clinical skills and competencies essential to the role.

Start date with UEA September 2024 (TBC)

Your time will be divided between academic teaching and academic requirements and your clinical role. As a trainee and post qualification you will work within the new Psychological skills service (PSS).

Within the role you will also be part of the ongoing development of this service.

This will include helping to finalise group programmes and going through a core part of the role in this project will also be to work alongside the Clinical leadership team to analyse complex data sets to audit and evaluate this pilot service and ensure safe and effective patient flows across the Cambridge Mental Health network.

Your data analysis will be a key part of how we decide if the project is effective, deciding whether we need to make changes and how we continue to secure funding.

As a CAP trainee, you will receive supervision and training from clinical psychologists and work alongside the wider professional team including Psychiatrists, GPs, Assistant Psychologists, Mental Health Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, Pharmacists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, High Intensity Therapists (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies-IAPT).

On qualification, CAPs move to a band 6 role. To progress to a band 6 you must complete all course requirements.

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.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community.

These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

Entry requirements:

You must meet the entry requirements to the Clinical Associate in Psychology Degree Apprenticeship as specified by UEA, have the right to work in England and have valid and eligible residency status to meet the criteria for apprenticeship funding in accordance with Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) rules.

You will also need to have experience relevant to working in health, mental health and/or psychological service setting. You must also be able to travel for work purposes.

During the course you will be at your work base for half of the week. The other half of your week will be spent attending the course. The course will involve approximately 50% face to face teaching at UEA in Norwich and 50% remote learning.

Responsibilities:

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

To provide brief psychological interventions (BPI's) and maintain a clinical caseload, under supervision.

To support the psychology team and wider team in psychological assessment, care planning and the delivery of evidence-based interventions.

To assist the psychology team in the development of individual or group clinical materials/training materials, such as the development of treatment manuals and group interventions.

To lead the collection, analyses and presentation of outcome measures to support the case for proving the clinical and cost effectiveness of psychological therapies in the team.

To support the team in delivering, managing and evaluating other psychological interventions,