Principal Clinical Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and highly skilled Principal Clinical 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.

The post will be initially based at the Beacon Centre, Fulbourn.

The post holder will play a central role in delivering psychologically informed support to people experiencing psychological distress relating to their healthcare experiences. The successful applicant will join a developing multidisciplinary pathway, contributing a compassionate, trauma informed and family centred response. The role will provide a highly specialist psychological service including direct clinical work, consultation to teams, psychological formulation, risk assessment, staff support and shaping the overall model of care to affected families. It will include management and clinical supervision of clinical, trainee and assistant psychologists in the service.

Work is autonomous within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. Also, to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. 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 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.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

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 highly specialist assessments of clients referred to the Orthopaedic Psychological Support Service, using, interpreting and integrating 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 formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological and systemic theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors


• To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological and/ or systemic interventions 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 and/ or systemic 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.


• To evaluate and make decisions 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.


• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.


• To provide highly specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.


• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically and systemic based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.


• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter\-agency policies and procedures.


• To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging reviews as required, and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi\-disciplinary interventions.

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