Clinical Psychologist

The Paediatric Psychological Medicine Service for Children, Young People and Families is recruiting a Clinical Psychologists for the following posts; 0.5WTE Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis and 0.4WTE Paediatric Gastroenterology.

The job role is to provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis/Gastroenterology services, based at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Each clinical psychologist post will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. The psychologist will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The posts form part of the Paediatric Psychological Medicine Service for Children, Young People and Families at Addenbrooke's Hospital. This service works with a range of medical specialties within paediatrics and the posts sit in wider multi-disciplinary teams. The post holders will be employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

We are recruiting to 2 medical specialities, comprising 0.9WTE altogether. The post holder/s will work with the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis and Paediatric Gastroenterology services, based at Addenbrookes Hospital.

The job involves working with children, adolescents and young adults with complex medical and surgical needs at Addenbrookes Hospital. The job involves assessment and delivery of care involving both the patient, 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 andempowering 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.