Clinical Psychologist - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Description

We are excited to offer this opportunity for a clinical/counselling psychologist to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service.

We believe that passion and transferable skills are invaluable so for those with less experience, we are able to offer a Band 7 development post.

We are a secondary care multi-disciplinary service (with an innovative and expanding therapy team), working with women with severe or complex mental health needs who are pregnant or have a child under one.

The post-holder will work across the south of the county, with an office base in Cambridge. We operate a hybrid working model and travel for home visits will be required.

Perinatal Mental Health is a growing specialty and provides opportunity for you to develop specialist skills.

You will have the opportunity to join an exceptional team, with the resources and passion to invest in you, including specialist training.

If you are successful, we will expect you to contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service to clients of the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

This will involve conducting psychological assessments and providing therapy, drawing on a range of models, to women and their families.

You will be expected to supervise, and support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, and working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery teams.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.

We will expect you to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

To support the development of the service you will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area serviced by the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

In this role you will be part of the Psychological Medicine Service and therefore you will be able to access peer supervision and support through this team.

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 andempowering 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.

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.

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Working with mothers, babies and other family members and other team members to provide specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological test, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

To assist the Perinatal Mental Health Service team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed to mothers and families.

To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence based psychological interventions for users of the Perinatal Mental Health Service in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

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 hospital and inter-agency policies and procedures.

To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.

To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.

To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.

To significantly contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, and development of the psychological services aspect of the perinatal mental health pathway, operational policies, and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.

Systemic/Family Therapy/Dyadic training

Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.

Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision

Experience of working within the perinatal mental health specialty and/or experience of working with infants and families.

Knowledge of clinical health psychology.
Experience using current, evidence based, stepped care models of care as detailed in NICE guidance.

Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families' carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Personal Qualities
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust