Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Clinical Psychologist
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Clinical Psychologist
Recruitment for Band 7 Clinical Psychologist
We would like to recruit an enthusiastic, creative, values led Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to work alongside the Diabetes MDT at Addenbrookes Hospital. The role is a part of the wider Paediatric Psychological Medicine Team commissioned by and based at Addenbrookes. We work to integrate Physical and Mental health and to treat the whole child, a central aspect of the future Cambridge Children's Hospital.
Role Description
The psychologist will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The psychologist will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The job involves working with children, adolescents and young adults with complex medical needs, in a hospital-based setting, at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
The job involves assessment and delivery of care involving both the patient and parents and family systems where there are complex social needs.
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The intervention level ranges from the specialist tertiary multidisciplinary team level and associated paediatric ward nursing teams to community paediatric teams, social care, education and primary health care. Interventions routinely cross professional and Acute Health Trust and Community Mental Health Trust boundaries and sometimes involve Child Protection work.
The job involves physical effort of the nature of sitting in a constrained position for extended patient / client therapy sessions, frequent intense concentration on assessment and formulation, it is sometimes highly distressing, dealing with such issues as chronic illness and family breakdown, and may deal with issues such as acute physical distress or illness, death, serious mental illness and child abuse.
About the Trust
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.
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Recruitment
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 for new employees to CPFT 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.
Contact Information
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
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Name: Dr Maisy Baxter
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Job title: Principal Psychologist
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Email address: maisy.baxter@nhs.net
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Telephone number: 01223 216878
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Dr Eliane Young
- Email address: Eliane.young1@nhs.net
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