Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and highly skilled Clinical Psychologist to join the Orthopaedic Psychological Support Team, a Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation (CPFT) Service on a secondment/fixed term contract. The postholder will join a dedicated team supporting children, young people, adults, families and staff affected by the orthopaedic incident and ongoing clinical review of the surgeon’s work.

Initially based at the Beacon Centre in Fulbourn, the postholder will work with managers and clinical leads, to deliver a high-quality psychological therapies service within the Orthopaedic Psychology Service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be delivering psychologically informed support to people experiencing psychological distress relating to their healthcare experiences. They will provide specialist psychological assessments, formulation and treatment of clients referred to the Orthopaedic Psychology service, upon the appropriate use, interpretation 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, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

The service is committed to ensuring the voices and experiences of patients and families remain central to ongoing learning, support and improvement.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a service focused on compassionate support, recovery, learning and rebuilding trust following an extremely difficult period for many families.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

• To contribute to the development and promotion of best practice in psychology across the service, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.  2.    To maintain and develop the profile of psychology within the Trust, regionally and nationally as appropriate during all professional contacts with patients, carers, colleagues and the public. 3.    To contribute to the reduction of risk in areas of responsibility. 4.    To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures. 5.    To produce psychological reports and notes in a timely manner and to provide management information in line with Trust policies and procedures in a timely manner. 6.    To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. 7.    To work in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, The BPS Code of Conduct and DCP Professional Practice Guidelines and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain an up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this. 8.    To contribute to the analysis, development, evaluation and monitoring of the Trust’s and team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. 9.    To advise the Paediatric medical services and professional management on those aspects of the services where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.  10.    To report clinical data to service leads (and where applicable) charity leads and to join national a regional meetings with clinical psychologists and stakeholders.