Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 448-CCYP-7025223
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oak Tree Centre Huntingdon / Peacock Centre Cambridge
- Town
- Huntingdon
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/03/2025
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 7
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.Ìý
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
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Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Community Paediatric Service the Children’s Community Specialist Nursing Teams (CCSNT) across Cambridgeshire. This is an exciting new post working across both teams providing assessments and therapeutic support to children, young people of their families.
The Community Paediatric Service offers neurodevelopmental assessments to children across Cambridgeshire up to the age of 11 years old, and also sees children with complex physical health conditions (e.g. cerebral palsy). The successful postholder will join the multi-disciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment clinics contributing to diagnostic decision making and/or formulation, as appropriate. The postholder will also be involved in the development of psycho-educational and therapeutic group interventions offered by the service.
This is a new and exciting role within the team and the post holder will have the chance to help develop this role as we move forward as a service.
Main duties of the job
The CCSNT provide support to young people and their families with their healthcare needs. The team aims to prevent hospital admission and facilitate early hospital discharge wherever possible. Support is offered to children with a range of complex and chronic health conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care. The postholder will undertake assessments, develop formulations and deliver short term psychosocial and psychological interventions to these families as part of their role, as well as providing forums for staff support.Ìý
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff Ìýwho, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.Ìý
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1.ÌýTo provide and be responsible for implementing a range of psychological assessments and interventions (e.g. CBT) for children, young people, and their families within both the Community Paediatric Service and CCSNT. adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
2.ÌýÌýÌý To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client’s formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan and enhancing staff confidence and competence in their own roles.
3.ÌýÌýÌý To work together with relevant professionals to provide a co-ordinated service that meets the identified needs of the child and family. This includes post diagnostic support, and pre and post bereavement counselling to families and children with a variety of medical conditions (ranging from those with complex healthcare needs, those needing acute short term interventions and those requiring palliative and end of life care). The role will also involve supporting the CCSNT with clinics.
4.ÌýÌýÌý To evaluate, analyse and make decisions/recommendations 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.
5.ÌýÌýÌý To undertake risk formulations and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk formulation and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies, procedures and NICE guidelines.
6.ÌýÌýÌý To lead on service evaluations relating to efficacy of interventions.
7.ÌýÌýÌý To participate in audits.
8.ÌýÌýÌý Attend multi-disciplinary meetings, representing psychology within both the Community Paediatric Service and the CCSNT and provide a psychological lens for case discussions.
9.ÌýÌýÌý Providing supervision and support to colleagues within the CCSNT including palliative care supervision, and leading team debriefs following child bereavement.
10. To participate in the development of the evolving service, including group work delivering teaching and training and creating resources for families.
11. To be aware of health inequalities, ensuring that any additional vulnerability or inequality suffered by children and young people (e.g., learning disability, victim of child sexual exploitation, children looked after) is properly considered when identifying appropriate interventions with other professionals.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology and be registered with the HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Further model specific training
- Supervision qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in children and young people’s mental health services
- Experience of specialist assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
- Experience of supervising other staff members, both on an individual and group basis.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with neurodiversity
- Experience of delivering teaching and training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, interventions (e.g. CBT) and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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.
- Skills in self-management, caseload management and time-management.
- Skilled in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable criteria
- High level knowledge about attachment theory and the impact of trauma
- Knowledge and experience of the Coventry Grid/Coventry Grid Interview
- High level knowledge of the impact of complex long term health conditions on young people and families
Safeguarding
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues.
- Has a good understanding of the Safeguarding agenda
Working withing Professional Boundaries
Essential criteria
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Shemin Mohamed
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist & Psychology Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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