12 Month Fixed Term Contract
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and highly skilled Assistant Psychologist to join the Orthopaedic Psychological Support Team, a Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation (CPFT) Service on a secondment/fixed term contract. The postholder will join a dedicated team supporting children, young people, adults, families and staff affected by the orthopaedic incident and ongoing clinical review of the surgeon’s work.
Initially based at the Beacon Centre in Fulbourn, the postholder will work with managers and clinical leads, to deliver a high-quality psychological therapies service within the Orthopaedic Psychology Service.
The postholder will support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients referred to the Orthopaedic Psychological Support Service.
They will enhance awareness of the service, to foster initial engagement and to provide psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
The postholder will also assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, within the Orthopaedic service.
The post holder will play be delivering psychologically informed support to people experiencing psychological distress relating to their healthcare experiences.
The service is committed to ensuring the voices and experiences of patients and families remain central to ongoing learning, support and improvement.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a service focused on compassionate support, recovery, learning and rebuilding trust following an extremely difficult period for many families.
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 fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To contact patients identified patients and create awareness of the offer of a follow up psychological service.
- To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children. To work alongside other members of the Orthopaedic service.
- To write reports that are based on a comprehensive assessment, under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist.
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a children’s and families difficulties, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in both community and in-patient/outpatient settings.
- To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
- To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
- To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
- To have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and be able to communicate effectively within the MDT, complex professional systems and wider teams.
