Overview
Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist - CPFT Liaison and Diversion Service. The successful candidate will work with people who have received a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) by the court due to low-level offending and co-occurring mental health conditions across Cambridgeshire. This is a full-time position with flexible arrangements to meet service needs. The service delivers MHTRs for adults within the geographic area.
Responsibilities
* Maintain an own caseload of direct therapeutic work with service users.
* Provide supervision to assistant psychologists completing structured assessments.
* Assess, interpret and integrate data from multiple sources to determine suitability for MHTR and to commence a manualised psycho-educational treatment programme provided by the assistant psychologist.
* Undertake risk assessment and management of offenders prior to starting manualised treatment programmes.
* Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge of offenders receiving manualised treatment under MHTRs, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions are communicated with the assistant psychologist.
* Offer regular clinical supervision to the assistant psychologists delivering MHTR interventions and provide clinical oversight around assessment, formulation, treatment planning and delivery.
* Contribute to wider service development, considering local needs and how to implement the MHTR service across Cambridgeshire.
Organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve health and wellbeing, and to empower people to lead fulfilling lives. Our clinical teams deliver NHS services in inpatient, primary care, and community settings, across 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, research and development.
Equality and Sponsorship
To achieve our goal, we recruit high-calibre candidates and are an equal opportunities employer, encouraging applications from all communities, including people with long-term conditions and members of ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role we cannot sponsor, your application will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, visit www.cpft.nhs.uk. For details or informal visits contact: Name: Sara Hart, Service Manager, Email: sara.hart@cpft.nhs.uk. Dr Holly Wake (Senior Clinical Psychologist), Holly.wake@cpft.nhs.uk
Job details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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