Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Principal Psychologist - Complications of Excessive Weight
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Band 8a Principal Psychologist 0.6 WTE for Complications of Excess Weight Service (CEW)
Post will be based at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.
About the Role
The post forms part of the larger team for Psychological Medicine for Children, Young People, and Families, based within Addenbrookes Hospital and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
Responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to children, young people, and their families.
- Offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- Utilize research skills for audit, policy and service development, and research.
- Liaison with a range of relevant agencies and teams to develop understanding of the current challenges and make appropriate and timely referrals to appropriate local services.
- Delivery of assessment and intervention is via Microsoft Teams platform.
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- The role requires assessment and delivery of care in the community; involving the patient, parents, and family systems where there are complex social needs.
- The intervention level ranges from the specialist tertiary hospital-based multidisciplinary team to community teams including community health teams; social care; education; wellbeing services, and primary health care.
About the Employer
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, liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
Application Information
- 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.
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Contact Information
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Viktoria Cestaro
- Job title: Lead Psychologist for CEW
- Email address: viktoria.cestaro1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01223 216878
Dr. Eliane Young - Consultant Psychologist
Email: Eliane.young1@nhs.net
Telephone: 01223 216 878
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