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Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist * Development Role *, Peterborough
Client:
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Location:
Peterborough, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
9d49cb8e1543
Job Views:
2
Posted:
30.03.2025
Expiry Date:
14.05.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
The Dual Diagnosis and Outreach Team (DDOT) was created with Community Mental Health Transformation funding to improve access to mental health services for clients with serious mental illness and multiple, complex needs who struggle to gain access to mental health services via more formal routes.
The DDOT is a small team with a clinical lead, a senior nurse, and support workers. The team is an outreach arm of the Primary Care Mental Health Service (PCMHS) which works closely with GPs to ensure that people can access appropriate mental health care.
The DDOT is based in the Peterborough Town Hall, but most of their work is out and about in Peterborough, joining the Rough Sleeper Outreach team for their shifts on the streets, mingling with staff and clients in the Garden House, the local drop-in centre for rough sleepers, or at the headquarters for Aspire which provides support for those clients with addictions to drugs and alcohol.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be joining a vibrant and well-integrated community of services who work well together and who are passionate about their work. They will also be joining at a time when services for people with severe multiple disadvantages are expanding.
The opportunities for career progression are numerous with a significant number of senior nursing posts built into the new Peterborough Stepped Care Model. We are introducing more senior nursing roles because we want to promote a wealth of clinical experience in CPFT to promote clinical excellence and better patient care throughout Peterborough.
The Clinical Lead role will deliver clinical supervision and leadership, undertaking complex assessments and liaising with partner agencies. The clinical lead role will assist in developing the team and offering training sessions to our partner agency colleagues. There will also be opportunities to learn from the regular MDT clinical meetings with the PCMHS and training and case discussion sessions with the senior Lead Nurse Specialist for Personality Disorder and the Lead Primary Care Psychologist.
Successful applicants will need to demonstrate strong clinical leadership skills and a demonstrable commitment and enthusiasm for working with this client group. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a busy and innovative team on a pilot whose aim is to enhance the chances of local people achieving and maintaining optimal mental health within Peterborough.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also within the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older People's mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Benefits of working for CPFT include:
* Annual leave allowance days plus bank holidays (this may increase depending on NHS service)
* Pension scheme
* Salary sacrifice schemes
* Staff discounts schemes
* Professional development via the CPFT Academy which provides in-house training programs
* Stress awareness training
* Mindfulness training
* Counselling service
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