Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in perinatal mental health and parent-infant work. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service. We are a secondary care service with a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, family therapy, parent-infant psychotherapy, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers. There is a growing therapy team made up of a consultant psychologist, principal psychologists, clinical and counselling psychologists, a parent-infant psychotherapist, trainees and assistant psychologists.
We work closely with our community partners in midwifery and health visiting, making it a unique role.
A 0.8 FTE 8A/B7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist post to be based within the south hub. This post-holder will join a therapy team who deliver assessments, a range of therapeutic interventions, alongside the multidisciplinary team. We are a community-based team and there will be some expectation to travel for home visits. We would encourage applications from those qualifying soon or those seeking experience in a new field who have applicable knowledge and skills.
The south hub includes Cambridge, Ely, Royston and surrounding areas with an office base in Cambridge. We have a hybrid working model that supports home working alongside joining for meetings and providing services at different sites and service users' homes., The Clinical/Counselling Psychologist will contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service to clients of the Perinatal Mental Health Service. The post-holder will conduct psychological assessments and provide therapy, drawing on a range of models, to women and their families. This includes individual, group and dyadic work between parent and infant. They will also supervise, and support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery. The therapist will join a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.
The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Perinatal Mental Health Service.
The post-holder will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area serviced by the Perinatal Mental Health Service.
The post holder is part of the Psychological Medicine Service and is able to access peer supervision and support through this team. They will receive supervision, professional support, and guidance from the psychologists within the Perinatal Mental Health Team., 1. Working with mothers, babies and other family members and other team members to provide specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological test, 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.
2. 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.
3. To assist the Perinatal Mental Health Service team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed to mothers and families.
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence based psychological interventions for users of the Perinatal Mental Health Service in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
5. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
6. 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 hospital and inter-agency policies and procedures.
7. To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.
8. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
9. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.
10. To offer a systemic, reflective, and psychological perspective within the team around our understanding of families as well as team and organisational dynamics.
11. To significantly contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, and development of the psychological services aspect of the perinatal mental health pathway, operational policies, and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.

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., Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
+ Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
+ Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
+ Children and young people's mental health services;
+ Children's community services in Peterborough;
+ Social care;
+ Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.