Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist / Outreach Lead

You will have a managerial role working within the Fens Services, in particular managing and co-ordinating the Outreach Service for the wider High Secure male prison, with assistance and in collaboration with the Fens clinical team and operational staff., 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., To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the role of the Outreach Lead.
To manage and maintain a caseload in line with current standards of psychological practice and consistent with agreed team approaches.
To have significant working knowledge of personality disorder and trauma, and the behaviours that come from high levels of distress.
To carry out specialist psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions within both the Fens Service and Outreach service.
To communicate the results of complex assessment and interventions to other members of the Multi-disciplinary Team including non-clinical staff, and to do so in a way that is accessible to all.
To communicate effectively, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, within difficult situations such as to a service user who may be presenting as hostile and antagonistic and not wanting to receive information.
To develop formulations and treatment plans for the formal interventions and/or management of a service user's mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the Fens and the Outreach Service.
To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to the understanding of the service user from a psychological perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

This is a newly developing service arising from commissioners strategic directions to widen The Fens service provision to include an Outreach service and Enhanced Support Service (ESS) alongside a well-established treatment service. This will require the post-holder to have a solid working knowledge of personality disorders, challenging behaviour and trauma, recognising the implications and consequences that can arise for those who struggle to live with personality difficulties arising from adverse childhood trauma.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
+ Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
+ Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
+ Children and young people's mental health services;
+ Children's community services in Peterborough;
+ Social care;
+ Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

The Fen's is an innovative and challenging service for individuals with chronic histories of trauma who are located in a male high-risk prison.
Our treatment draws on attachment theory and incorporates sensorimotor psychotherapy and schema focused therapy, along with a range of short-term interventions such as EMDR, CBT, CAT etc. Through a combination of individual and group therapies, patients are given opportunities to heal from trauma and neglect, improve wellbeing and reduce risk.
We will support you in broadening your therapeutic skills, management, and working to achieve organisational change in a complex system. There are opportunities to further your research interests through our links with Universities.
The role is a permanent, full-time position with scope to complete some work from home .
You will join our diverse clinical team with a rich range of clinical and forensic experience.
"I wanted to change, I was crying out to change. You know, it was a trust element.…letting them see me warts and all….and that was the hard thing. Breaking down crying…getting the stuff out I needed to. I grew from that…if I don't like myself, how can anyone else like myself. How can I move on if I don't forgive myself… I've got to give myself a chance." Current service user