Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within CPFT for a qualified Psychologist to join the Liaison and Diversion Service. The successful candidate will be working with people who have received a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) by the court as a result of having committed low level offending and experiencing co-occurring mental health conditions across Cambridgeshire.
This is a full time position which can be flexible within the needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
The service delivers MHTRs for adults within the demographic area.
The post holder will hold their own caseload of direct therapeutic work with service users as well providing supervision to assistant psychologists completing structured assessments .
The post holder will need to consider the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources to help the assistant determine suitability for the offender to be offered a MHTR and to commence a manualised psycho-educational treatment programme provided by the assistant psychologist. Also undertake risk assessment and management of offenders prior to them commencing manualised treatment programmes with an assistant psychologist. To 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 providing the treatments.
The post holder would be expected to offer regular clinical supervision to the assistant psychologists delivering the MHTR interventions. They would be expected to provide clinical oversight and guidance around the assessment, formulation, treatment planning and delivery of the intervention.
The post holder would be expected to contribute to the wider service development, considering the local needs and how the implementation of the MHTR service can be achieved across Cambridgeshire.
Working for our organisation
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 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'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.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
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