We are keen to recruit an enthusiastic and positive Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to Paediatric patients and their families cared for under the Paediatric Neurology and Persistent Physical Symptoms, based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
0.6 WTE Neurology & 0.1 WTE Persistent Physical Symptoms (PPS).
Neurology
The post holder will work alongside 8b and 8a psychology colleagues to provide a specialist clinical psychology service to patients and their families referred to the Paediatric Neurology service. This will include offering specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and interventions to patients (up to 17yo) and families. The role offers the opportunity to work closely with a well-established team of Consultant Paediatric Neurologists alongside the wider MDT to offer support to children and their families.
Persistent Physical Symptoms
The postholder will work with children and young people who experience persistent physical symptoms, either in the absence of a diagnosed physical health condition or where the symptoms are not fully explained by physical causes. These include but are not limited to fatigue, dizziness, numbness, headaches, non-epileptic seizures, vomiting and abdominal pain.
The team comprises two clinical psychologists and one family therapist who will help children, young people, and their families manage their symptoms effectively and reduce their impact on their daily lives.
Please note we will accept applications from final year trainee clinical psychologists receiving HCPC registration imminently.
The job involves working with children, adolescents and young adults with complex medical and surgical needs, in hospital-based settings, at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
The job involves assessment and delivery of care involving both the patient and parents and family systems where there are complex social needs. The intervention level ranges from the specialist tertiary multidisciplinary team level and associated paediatric ward nursing teams to community paediatric teams, social care, education and primary health care. Interventions routinely cross professional and Acute Health Trust and Community Mental Health Trust boundaries and sometimes involve Child Protection work.
The job involves physical effort of the nature of sitting in a constrained position for extended patient / client therapy sessions, frequent intense concentration on assessment and formulation, it is sometimes highly distressing, dealing with such issues as chronic illness and family breakdown, and may deal with issues such as acute physical distress or illness, death, serious mental illness and child abuse.
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 underrepresented 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.
General
To contribute to the development and promotion of best practice in psychology across the service, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
To maintain and develop the profile of psychology within the Trust, regionally and nationally as appropriate during all professional contacts with patients, carers, colleagues and the public.
To contribute to the reduction of risk in areas of responsibility.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
To produce psychological reports and notes in a timely manner and to provide management information in line with Trust policies and procedures in a timely manner.
Clinical
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients, working to the specified job plan. This includes managing and maintaining a caseload in line with service guidelines and PPN recommendations.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Paediatric psychology service, 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 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, across the full range of care settings.
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.
