Principal Clinical Psychologist

at  Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

£3000 - New Hire Bonus
The permanent posts are eligible for a £3000 New Hire Bonus. An initial payment of £1000 will be paid in the first 1 month and a final payment of £2000 will be paid 1 year after your start date. This will be pro-rata for part-time posts. Internal applicants are not eligible to receive this bonus. Please see attached New Hire Bonus Terms & Conditions
We have an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for working with people who have experienced severe and enduring mental health difficulties. This is an excellent career development opportunity to lead a team of psychologists and psychological practitioners working as part of a larger multi-disciplinary service.
There is significant scope for the strategic development of models of service delivery, supporting delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions to this client group. You will have a clinical caseload as well as clear management and supervisory components to your role. You will also oversee a psychologically informed wider workforce in the MDT. This will also involve proactive engagement with third sector stakeholders.
There are ample training opportunities, and the team has benefited from recent training in CBTP, EMDR and the modular Feeling safe programme for persecutory delusions.
The post-holder will work with service users experiencing serious mental health problems and there is opportunity to develop and provide specialist clinical interventions with specific client groups to meet service needs. The post-holder will provide clinical supervision and leadership to other psychologists delivering specialist interventions; and where indicated provide direct and indirect clinical interventions to individuals and their families.
To provide a qualified clinical psychology service; to clients served by the locality team; to provide specialist psychological assessment including neuropsychology assessment; to provide NICE compliant specialist psychological therapy; to provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers; to lead on the training and on-going supervision of psychologists and non-psychologist staff in psychological interventions; to ensure appropriate governance arrangements for all psychological services within the team; to contribute to the initial expert assessment of clients newly referred to the team; to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
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.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to the locality team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation 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, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To develop 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.
To use psychological formulations to develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, and to use these plans to inform and lead the work of non-psychology members of the team.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
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 skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
To produce 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

Please refer the Job description for details