A vacancy exists for a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist with a specialist interest in neuropsychology and child development to work in the Children's Development Centre and to provide assessment and therapeutic interventions to children and their families. The post will provide the appropriate candidate an opportunity to practice in the assessment, formulation (case conceptualisation) and therapeutic intervention of preschool children (0-5y) with developmental/neurological differences and their families. Specifically, the post holder will take a lead in this, working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment including speech and language therapists, paediatricians and occupational therapists.

The Community Paediatric patient population includes predominantly children (0-18y) who have a diagnosis of ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, physical disability, sensory impairment, specific cognitive deficits, global intellectual difficulties as well as a range of mental health difficulties as part of the integrated all age (0-18) neurodevelopmental services. There will be opportunities for teaching, supervision and research with other members of the team and with the wider CAMHS service.

For informal discussion, please contact Dr Rebecca Webster (Clinical Psychologist: Community Paediatrics and Paediatric Psychology) on Rebecca.Webster@cpft.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

This post allows the post holder an exciting opportunity to provide a highly specialist paediatric psychology service to children and adolescents and their families/carers with a wide spectrum of mental health, developmental and psychological difficulties.

The post holder will provide highly specialist clinical assessments and interventions for children and their families/carers.

The post holder will provide supervision and consultation to other members of staff, including clinical psychologists in training, as required.

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.

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

1. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to the Paediatric Psychology team based upon the appropriate use and integration of 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, their families and others involved in the clients care (including professionals from other agencies).2. To individually formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatments and/or management of a clients mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual clients, families/carers, and via groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models including developmental, cognitive, behavioural, biological, and neuropsychological, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.4. To provide specialist child neuropsychology assessments, providing advice and consultation on this information to other NHS professionals, clients and their families, and other agencies as appropriate.5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of own clients and manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.6. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of own (caseholder) clients and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.8. To work in partnership and maintain effective links with the statutory and non-statutory, and primary-care agencies as appropriate.9. To regularly deal with family breakdown, child abuse and complex Mental, Physical, Developmental and Neurological difficulties

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Postgraduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent) in clinical or counselling or educational psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan development psychology.
• Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Desirable

• Training in specialised Neurodevelopmental Assessment Tools, e.g. ADOS, ADI
• Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised area of psychological practice.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community and primary care settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and providing professional and/or clinical supervision

Desirable

• Experience of working as a qualified psychologist with children and young people
• Experience of adapting support to meet needs of children with developmental delay, Autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, careers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Excellent skills of assessment, formulation, evaluation and treatment, using complex methods frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching and training others.
• Ability to network and work well with other professional groups and external agencies

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and models of psychopathology and learning relevant to clients in CAMHS.
• Good knowledge of psychological evidence-based interventions applicable to referred clients.

Desirable

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel across the Trust site, when required

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Winchester Place

80 Thorpe Road

Peterborough

PE3 6AP

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