Job Description

This is an 8A post, but we would welcome applicants who are looking for a B7 to 8A development post in a supportive context- an opportunity for either a newly qualified band 7 applied psychologist with career progression potential, or an established band 8a Applied psychologist to join the Multidisciplinary Clare Lodge In Reach Health Team.



Clare Lodge is a leading national provider of secure accommodation "welfare" only placements and the only all female unit in the UK. The service is governed by Peterborough City Council and works in a collaborative way with CPFT to provide an intensive and therapeutic environment, including an in-reach psychiatric and psychological and physical healthcare provision. Clare Lodge works within the integrated framework for secure care, ensuring all interventions and care plans across departments (health, education and residential) are psychologically informed.



Our expanding healthcare team provides a wide range of interventions and assessments for the young people detained at Clare Lodge and trauma informed training and reflective practice for the staff and the system. We are a friendly, passionate, and patient focussed team who are dedicated to working alongside our Local authority partners to improve both health and social outcomes and deliver the best possible care.



Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. We encourage our psychologists to develop their skills and knowledge with CPD opportunities. We believe that research is central to the development and maintenance of effective teams and interventions. Our psychologists have close links with the Doctoral Clinical Psychology course at the University of East Anglia and routinely place their trainees within our service. Applied psychologists provide important input into the strategic development of services and there are future opportunities to engage in leadership development programmes.



We have a commitment to research and service audits in the field of secure care and trauma informed practice, with a particular focus on the experience and needs of girls, and the team is currently collaborating on a number of interesting projects.



Relevant support and experience will be provided to ensure that successful newly qualified applicants will be able to transition into an 8a clinical psychology post after demonstrating significant post-qualifying experience and meeting the requirements for the role.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Sophie.mulvana@cpft.nhs.uk



Please be advised that relocation expenses may be payable on this vacancy. Successful applicants must currently live within the UK and more than 40 miles away from the base address of the vacancy. For full terms and conditions please email recruitment@cpft.nhs.uk



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 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.



To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. 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.



Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.



Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.



For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk



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



1. To provide psychological assessments of clients at Clare Lodge. 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.



2. 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.



3. 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 wider MDT, including care and education staff.



4. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. This includes responsibility for the delivery of psychological interventions by all team members.



5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.



6. 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 the Lead Psychologist.



7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.



8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a trauma informed framework (namely the attachment regulation competencies model) of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.



9. 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.



10. 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.