This is a great opportunity to work within our inpatient mental health psychology service alongside psychologists, psychiatrists, resident doctors, OTs, nurses, social workers and physiotherapists.
Our innovative Adult Mental Health acute wards comprise two Admission & Treatment wards and a Recovery ward. Our inpatient pathways are based on a model that admissions should be Necessary, Values Based and Appropriate, and aim to work closely with the community services to facilitate discharge.
The post-holder will provide support to adults with a mental health diagnosis. Therapy will be provided as part of the MDT approach, ensuring a personalised, client-centred focus on individual goals and functional outcomes. There will also be opportunities to work indirectly supporting the wider team to think and work psychologically.
The post-holder will deliver different forms of psychological interventions in either an individual or group setting. The post-holder will be based at Fulbourn Hospital in Cambridge.
Working under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, you will support the delivery of psychological services across acute adult inpatient wards. Responsibilities include contributing to psychological assessments, supporting formulation work, facilitating psychoeducational and psychologically informed groups, and delivering brief evidence-based interventions such as Behavioural Activation, Anxiety Management and Distress Tolerance.
You will work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team to support patient recovery, assist with cognitive screening assessments, maintain psychology referral and outcome databases, monitor patient progress and contribute to psychologically informed care planning. The role requires excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, alongside the ability to engage sensitively with individuals experiencing significant mental health difficulties.
We are seeking a compassionate, resilient and proactive individual with a Psychology degree conferring Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) with the British Psychological Society, a strong interest in adult mental health, and a commitment to developing clinical skills within a supportive inpatient psychology service. Experience of working in mental health or healthcare settings, facilitating groups and applying psychological theory to practice would be advantageous.
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 for new employees to CPFT 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 .
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
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To provide a direct service using psychological intervention and assessment tools, under supervision of the Clinical Psychologist.
To support the Clinical Psychologists in preparation of team formulation sessions, i.e. completing file reviews and dissemination of formulation.
To facilitate group work, including psychoeducation, CBT. DBT and ACT informed sessions. This may include co-facilitating groups alongside other members of the MDT.
To facilitate individual psychological work, under the supervision of the Clinical Psychologist.
Where indicated to carry out Brief Psychological Interventions, including Anxiety Management, Behavioural Activation and Distress Tolerance.
To support completion of Cognitive Screening assessments and in some circumstances more detailed neuro-psychological assessments.
To input information and maintain the psychology referral spreadsheet/database.
To monitor and evaluate progress, refining interventions as necessary. To plan and prioritise workload,
To ensure that patients are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment .
To communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex and highly sensitive information with patients, families and colleagues.
To ensure the confidentiality of the information and comply with the Data Protection Act.
To work with the appropriate degree of autonomy and report appropriately to the des ignated line manager according to Trust occupational guidelines.
