Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Assistant Psychologist
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Job Opportunity in Inpatient Mental Health Psychology Service
This is a great opportunity to work within our inpatient mental health psychology service and to work alongside psychologists, psychiatrists, junior doctors, OTs, nurses, social workers, and physiotherapists, in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
About the Service
Our innovative Adult Mental Health acute wards comprise Admission, Treatment, Recovery, and PICU ward as well as MOD patients. Our inpatient pathways are based on a model that admissions should be Necessary, Values Based, and Appropriate and aim to work closely with the community services to facilitate discharge.
Working within this Unique Acute Care System
Working within this unique acute care system enables you to:
- Focus on developing specific skills and further develop expertise in assessment, treatment, and supporting recovery.
- Improve and enhance collaborative working across the acute care system, using psychological thinking to improve the understanding of the person.
- Contribute to the reputation and image of our treatment system, resulting in an increased sense of pride in our place of work.
Role Responsibilities
The post-holder will provide support to adults with a mental health diagnosis. The therapy will be provided as a part of the multi-disciplinary team approach to optimize individual functional outcomes.
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The post-holder will deliver different forms of psychological interventions to patients recovering from an episode of mental health illness in either an individual or group setting. The post-holder will be based at The Cavell Centre, in Peterborough.
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of adults with a mental health diagnosis. Working across all sectors of care providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the Team’s policies and procedures.
To assist in clinically-related administration, conducting audits, collection of data and statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.
About Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organization 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.
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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 underrepresented 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.
Application Information
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.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Pedro Areias Grilo
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: Pedro.AreiasGrilo@cpft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01733 218611
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