Principal Psychologist Intensive Support Team (IST)

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, Band 8B Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Intensive Support Team (IST) for adults with learning disabilities, in Peterborough. This team offers you a unique opportunity to show case your experience and expertise in working with adults with learning disabilities, who need psychological support when they find themselves in a crisis, where the role requires working within complex systems and with a number of partners.

Our team supports adults with learning disabilities with a diverse, and challenging range of complex needs. Our goal is to support our service users to remain in their community when in crisis, by offering additional mental health support, psychological therapy, and treatment. We support the transition of service users to allow them to return from out of area placements and work closely with services supporting young people to prevent them having to leave Peterborough unnecessarily.

We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist to work with our multidisciplinary team. If you are successful, you will be providing Positive Behaviour Support (applied behavioural analysis, formulation, and functional analysis) and trauma informed care. A key part of your role will be supporting the wider team to develop their psychological understanding of people's difficulties through consultation, supervision, and training. As a team we are passionate about development an providing the best possible care for our service users., You will be responsible for implementing psychological assessments and providing therapeutic interventions. As mentioned above, you will be supporting the wider team to develop psychological understandings of people's difficulties through consultation, supervision, and training. Supervision of an assistant psychologist and doctoral trainees on placements will also be an exciting part of the role.

You will be supported by the Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist. Professionally CPFT psychologists have a wide and active range of supervision and research groups which will be available to you. CPFT has an active research interest group with many local, regional ,and national collaborations. The trust has strong links with the UEA Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programme and the University of Cambridge. There will be both supervision, teaching/lecturing and examination opportunities with both universities.

We are a small team who are dedicated to supporting the development of our staff. If you are successful, you will have access to CPD opportunities, as appropriate to the role, and will have the opportunity to arrange a flexible work schedule to ensure a work/life balance that suits you.

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.