Principal Psychologist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for working with people who have experienced severe mental illness. This is an excellent career development opportunity for someone who is looking to lead a team of psychologists and psychological practitioners. The psychology team work as part of a larger multi-disciplinary service, with a wide range of professionals contributing to the excellent care of the people that we support.

The well-established service is located in the vibrant University city of Cambridge.

There is significant scope for the strategic development of models of service delivery, supporting the development and delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions to this client group. You will have a clinical caseload as well as clear management and supervisory components to your role. You will also oversee a psychologically informed wider workforce in the MDT. This will also involve proactive engagement with third sector stakeholders to expand on strong pre-existing relationships.

There are ample training opportunities, and the team has benefitted from recent training in CBTp, EMDR, the modular 'Feeling safe programme' for persecutory delusions and 'family interventions' in psychosis.

The main duties of the post holder include:

• The provision of clinical leadership and line management related responsibilities, including strategic thinking and monitoring of service delivery, to the psychology staff in CALT
• Providing specialist psychological assessment and direct and/or indirect intervention in accordance to the NICE guidelines
• Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to MDT colleagues and carers
• Liaising with external care providers and statutory agencies to support people and their families on their journey to wellbeing
• Training and on-going supervision for staff
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service

Supporting and developing psychologists within the team is of upmost importance to us. CPFT fully supports professional clinical supervision requirements. Supervision will be provided by colleagues with expertise and experience of working with a variety of mental health problems.

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 fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

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