Job overview
We Would like to recruit a positive, enthusiastic, values-led colleague to a band a Clinical Psychologist post working into the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
The post is based at Addenbrookes hospital as part of a larger Paediatric Psychological medicine team providing chiefly outpatient care, accepting referrals from Paediatric specialties within Addenbrookes.
The posts work alongside the multi-disciplinary teams for each of the specialties - Each represent distinct challenges for our patient groups and the successful applicants will represent the Paediatric Psychological Medicine team, enhancing the patient experience, providing seamless packages of care and promoting the integration of physical and mental health. Longer term goals will include working towards the creation of and working in the Cambridge Children's Hospital of the future.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
The psychologist will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. As well as being embedded in specialty multi-disciplinary teams you will work as a part of a large and growing Paediatric Psychological Medicine team consisting chiefly of Psychologists but also of Counsellors, Nurses, Psychiatrists and a family Therapist.
The size and growth of the team will create options for learning about new specialisms, formal training opportunities and career progression.
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.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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