We are delighted to be recruiting an assistant psychologist to join our adult community team in Huntingdon. We are a motivated a.....
We are delighted to be recruiting an assistant psychologist to join our adult community team in Huntingdon. We are a motivated and dynamic team who are keen to think about how we can continue to prevent delays in treatment, address gaps in service provision and be as effective and efficient as we can.
The Huntngdon Adult Locality Team (HALT) is a multi-disciplinary secondary care community mental health team that offers interventions for people with severe and enduring mental health conditions (namely psychotic illnesses, bipolar disorder, PTSD, depression, and anxiety disorders). You will work alongside an 8A psychologist, and band 7 psychologist, and trainee clinical psychologist.
The HALT team is part of the wider North Cambridgeshire psychology team that serve Fenland and Peterborough which consists of a consultant psychologist, a principal psychologist, specialist psychologists, CAPS, and assistant psychologists.
In North Cambridgeshire we are increasingly trying to collaborate and learn from each other. This gives more options for learning, training, sharing materials and co facilitation.
The role will consist of: the delivery of brief psychological interventions, assessments, psychometric testing, managing and evaluating outcome measures, presenting data in excel and PowerPoint format, the development and co delivery of group programmes, and other related tasks that will help the psychology team.
Weekly supervision and ongoing training will be provided in order for you to be able to be able to deliver these within the scope of your knowledge and experience.
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.
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
• To provide brief psychological interventions and maintain a clinical caseload, under supervision.
• To support the psychology team and wider team in psychological assessment, care provision, planning and delivery of evidence-based interventions.
• To assist the psychology team in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials, such as the development of treatment manuals and group interventions..
• To lead the collection, analyses and presentation of outcome measures to support the case for proving the clinical and cost effectiveness of psychological therapies in the team using psychological measurement tools and other data
• To support the team in delivering, managing and evaluating other psychological interventions, such as psychology groups.
• To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service
• Develop the ability to professionally deliver psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and research within defined scope of practice.
Use applied service research and evaluation to inform interventions.
• Work with individuals and groups with complex needs.
• Act as a psychological resource providing support to the wider health or social care teams
• Develop ability to deliver treatment interventions developed with a Clinical Psychologist who will review practice through supervision..
• Develop ability to conduct risk management assessments and evaluations.
• Maintain a compassionate, caring and safe care environment
• Develop a range of psychological treatments working within defined scope of practice, whilst the supervising Clinical Psychologist retains overall clinical responsibility, reporting to a Clinical Psychologist in terms of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
• Develop understanding of how to analyse and appraise the range of cognitive-behavioural and other psychological assessment methods used within applied clinical practice to underpin assessment, drawing on formulations in psychological theory, providing a clinical framework describing an individual’s problem and/or needs, whilst providing a rationale for how problems ave developed and are maintained
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Sep 2024
