CAMEO is an award-winning CPFT Early Intervention in psychosis service offering an age inclusive service (14-65 years) across a three-year pathway with an integrated At risk mental state (ARMS) service.

We are looking to recruit a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist to join our friendly, dynamic early intervention service based in Peterborough.

Cameo was established in 2002 and is a well-developed EIP service that can offer opportunities for further training and skills development in key areas such as family work, CBTp, psychosis and ASD/neurodevelopmental disorders, trauma, psychosis and associated emotional disorders in both first episode psychosis (FEP) and at risk mental state groups (ARMS).

In this preceptorship post, the successful applicant would be supported to apply for the 1 year post graduate CBTp top up training and is expected to progress into a full-time Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist position. CAMEO is a research-based service that has contributed significantly to the development of early intervention in psychosis over the last 20 years and continues to offer research and service development opportunities.

The successful applicant will join the CAMEO North team and will work with experienced clinical psychologists / CBTp therapists involved in the engaging, assessing, supporting and enhancing outcomes for individuals and families experiencing first episode of psychosis across a broad range of community settings.

Main duties of the job

This role will include psychological assessment and individualised, formulation-driven interventions within a CBT framework as part service user's overall multi-disciplinary team care plan. Therapeutic interventions will be delivered in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention in Psychosis Services and across the whole caseload which will include individuals with At Risk Mental States and those experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis. CAMEO recognises the aim of individualised therapy / group work as to promote self-awareness, independence, confidence, and hope within the service users own unique recovery journey.

Prior experience of working with psychosis or a wish to develop a robust professional working knowledge within this field would be essential. If you are a newly qualified clinical psychologist with a proven ability to assertively engage therapeutically, ability to adapt your work across a wide range of clinical presentations and would like to be part of a service that aims to improve outcomes for people with first episode psychosis, we would look forward to meeting you.

About us

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.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

To deliver CBT(p) informed by individual need and which utilise the appropriate range of cognitive behavioural theoretical and therapeutic models.

To continually monitor and evaluate the cognitive behavioural interventions provided, employing service specific outcome measures as required, reformulating and adjusting hypotheses and interventions as new information becomes available and liaising effectively with other professionals involved.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams.

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, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.

To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to patients / clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients/clients under their care.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• oDoctorate in clinical psychology
• oRegistered Mental Health professional registration

Desirable

• oEvidence of post-doctoral training (CBTp, Early Intervention in psychosis) or willingness to undertake
• oEvidence of training in Behavioural Family therapy (BFT) or equivalent family work training

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
• oExperience of working therapeutically with people experiencing psychotic symptoms and their families.
• oExperience of working in an EIP setting/ psychosis pathway team
• oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary team setting.

Desirable

• oExperience of developing and facilitating group-based interventions with individuals and families experiencing psychosis

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• oKnowledge of early intervention in psychosis principles. Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
• oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
• oSkills in individual and group work and in programme planning. Planning and organising skills for caseload management. Skills in self-management, including time management.
• oWell-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• oGood understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this service user group.
• oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group and the setting, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.

Desirable

• oKnowledge and skills in providing consultation, teaching and supervision to other professionals and non-professional groups.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• oAble to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users and carers
• oAbility to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice
• oAbility to travel independently across the CPFT area

Desirable

• oInterest, enthusiasm and commitment in relation to working in the area of Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP).

Other

Essential

• oMotivated towards personal and professional development with strong CPD record

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

169 London Road

Old Fletton

Peterborough

PE2 9ND

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