Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To support the running of the PIPE, its staff and residents through groups, training and consultation.
• To assist in the development of formulations/ case summaries and support PIPE staff in the planning and working with residents. The OPD Pathway is not an intervention service, but a small number of cases may require co-delivery of psychologically-informed work, conducted under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
• To work within risk assessments undertaken within the service in line with Trust and inter-agency policies/procedures.
• To work with other staff to assess and review the needs/ care of offenders across the PIPE and Peterborough and Cambridgeshire region.
• To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place (note: Could include prison environments).
• To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings, including; team meetings, team supervisions, probation based meetings and commissioning meetings (where appropriate).
• To manage data collection, audits and analysis to support the develop of the service and monitor quality.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

Desirable

• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of people with personality disorder difficulties and/ or complex presentations/ challenging behaviours.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

• Previous experience of an assistant psychologist post or equivalent
• Experience of working with forensic clients
• Lived experience of mental health

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive and distressing and to be balanced with robust risk management.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• Competent in the use of software programmes such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience of developing and maintaining databases for the purposes of data-analysis e.g. use of Excel or SPSS for Windows
• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with enduring mental health problems and personality disorders.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to the context of people with personality disorders.
• A clear understanding of the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to risk management within forensic services.

Desirable

• High standard of report writing.
• Experience of formulation development with clients
• Experience of supporting the design of group training packages.
• Experience of participation in group facilitation with clients
• Experience of participation in training to staff/ others
• An understanding of psychology applied to forensic clients and PIPE.
• Awareness of the Schema Therapy Model/ Mode Model
• Awareness of/ experience with DBT skills-based approaches

Personal Qualities

Essential

• To continue your professional development

Other

Essential

• Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting and/ or standing

Desirable

• Ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict deadlines.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Approved Premises/ Cambridge Probation Office

5 Weslesyan Road

Peterborough

PE1 3RW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

1. To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems; emotional, cognitive and behavioural. In particular to use specialist knowledge in relation to offending behaviour, trauma and to develop psychological formulations of the connection between a persons personality psychopathology and the risk they pose to others
2. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group
3. To incorporate the results of individual assessments, including neuropsychological assessment, into the formulations and treatment and care plans for the patient(s). To be able to articulate these formulations to other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team including non-clinical staff using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills at a level which is accessible to all
4. Within a cognitive interpersonal framework develop plans for the formal psychological individual treatment/formulation and/or management of a service users mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
5. To provide management, co-ordination and delivery in conjunction with the Clinical Lead, Treatment Leads, and partnership agencies, on the development of new innovative services within the Fens and wider prison. This will include the application of adjunctive and alternative therapies both within assessment and treatment provisions within the wider Fens services, supporting the psycho-social environment and developing appropriate evaluation methodologies and research protocols
6. To ensure that all members of the clinical and operational team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users in the OPDP Fens services, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group, including delivery of service user collaboration and/or co-production
8. To take a leading role within the Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings providing direct input to those meetings and communicating information on psychological assessments, formulations and interventions undertaken by other Psychologists/Psychotherapists within the OPDP Fens service
9. To contribute to the wider OPDP services by sharing information with other sites both through Fens progression and continuity of care pathway services for service users entering and leaving high secure services in line with agreed data sharing protocols
10. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other partnership professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
11. To undertake actuarial and clinical tools assessments, in addition to highly specialist knowledge and expertise to inform ongoing risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment
12. To take a lead in working in partnership with other disciplines to help to establish and maintain Multi-Disciplinary Team working and Care Programme Approach, including. acting as care co-ordinator in all that is required of this role
13. To communicate throughout all service delivery elements in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to others (e.g. service users family, carers), as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care in line with agreed data sharing protocols.
14. To produce reports on service users, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers
15. To attend and/chair OPDP meetings including but not limited to: MDT meetings, Prisoner Management meeting, programmes and governance meetings. Meetings will include partnership agencies and service user representatives
16. To contribute to HMPPS process of reviews of service users, providing written or verbal reports as appropriate to the specific reviews. Such reviews include those that relate to suicidal behaviour (ACCT reviews), safeguarding, security status and sentence planning
17. To work in partnership with other agencies and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate
18. To collect and communicate specific information as required by the commissioners responsible for the OPDP services.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in an applied psychology or master's level qualification registration; to include, models of lifespan developmental psychology, psychopathology and clinical psychometrics in addition to two or more distinct therapies.
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC
• Specialist psychological therapy training focussed on treatment of trauma and/ personality disorders eg, Schema training, EMDR, CAT, CFT.CBT...

Desirable

• Undertaken Post graduate Psychological training relevant to the advertised post (e.g. Personality Disorder training, Risk Assessment training, Training with respect to Interventions for clients with Personality Disorders and/ or those who pose a risk of harm to others.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of assessing and treating clients across a range of forensic/secure setting and/ or community personality disorder service
• Experience of work within a Multi-Disciplinary Team.
• Experience of the application of Psychology within different contexts.
• Able to demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours professional supervision.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Skills to impart psychological knowledge and approaches with non-psychology colleagues, taking an empowering, rather than an instructive stance.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies related to this client group, using specific psychological models such as Schema, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, DBT, MBT, CAT and CBT for Personality Disorders
• Well-developed knowledge and treatment of complex trauma and/or PD as displayed in recent research or conference paper or book chapter.

Desirable

• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, as practised within the field of psychology.
• Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of this service user group, in addition to appreciation of their differing experiences of working with these clients.

Other

Essential

• Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Fens Service, HMP Whitemoor

Longhill Road

March, Cambridgeshire

PE15 0PR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• To offer an urgent Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment for those referred and assessed as requiring the services of the Team.
• Identify the appropriate intervention or management required or if necessary, recommend the most suitable referral agency.
• Provide assessment reports/letters containing the necessary information of a high standard and monitor reports by junior staff to ensure they are of an equal standard.
• To contribute to achieving the Teams objectives, monitoring and evaluating workloads through effective clinical leadership.
• Provide urgent assessment/intervention for AMH service users out of their teams core hours of service.
• The post will include flexible working patterns over a 37.5 working hours per week to incorporate cover for 24 hours, 7-day service, including on call if required to meet the needs of the service users & carers.
• Ensure accurate and timely recording on CPFT Information Systems, i.e. Systm One.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Work

Desirable

• Post qualification specialist mental health training

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a community setting
• Experience in leadership role
• Experience of developing and providing teaching programmes
• Experience of managing and training staff

Desirable

• Qualification in leadership
• Ability to deliver mental health awareness and varied concise information

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Effective organisational and time management skills
• Clear evidence of effective & safe decision making and problem solving.
• Ability to contribute to service development and ability to manage change
• Ability to work under pressure

Desirable

• Ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act
• Understanding of therapeutic skills for clinicians required to support patients in an acute phase of illness
• Clear understanding of CRHTT practice and treatment objectives.
• Commitment to and understanding of IT.
• Knowledge of SOVA and Safeguarding policies

Desirable

• Mental Health Act Training
• Any additional training relevant to CRHTT intervention

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Able to cover shifts over a 24 hour period, 7 days a week
• Ability to travel across a large geographical patch

Other

Essential

• Committed to the empowerment of service users and carers promoting their involvement in service delivery
• Provide and promote non-discriminatory care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Cavell Centre

Peterborough

PE3 9GZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• To deliver on-going specialist assessments of adult service users referred to, and under the care of the CRHTT.
• To establish and deliver clinical supervision group and individual to the CRHT practitioners in line with current good practice and with the Trusts supervision policy.
• To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrates information from assessments alongside other team members.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
• To provide specialist professional advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for service users within CRHTT working within Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures, including work with service users deemed as vulnerable adults.
• To act as lead clinician for undertaking assessments and advising service users other mental health professionals in matters arising from the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults framework

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent professional qualifications
• Evidence of relevant post qualification training
• Post registration training in risk management
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with clients in acute mental health need
• Experience of providing clinical leadership into a mental health multi disciplinary team
• Proven experience of good working relationships within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of managing workload, ability to prioritise
• Evidence of clinical supervision training and/or experience
• Working in a supervisory capacity
• Experience of interagency working and liaison

Desirable

• Experience of working within a CRHTT
• Experience of working with wider stakeholder groups , Care Pathway Teams, independent sector agencies
• Qualification or significant experience using CBT, DBT, MBT or CAT with service users
• Experience of working within an acute inpatient service
• Experience or working within an adult community mental health service

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to develop therapeutic relationships with difficult to engage clients
• Good understanding and use of Care Programme Approach, Care Planning and Care Management
• Good understanding of the practical application of Recovery Principles
• Knowledge of policy and legislation relating to metal health and social care services
• Excellent decision-making and problem solving skills
• Must be able to utilise basic IT, in particular email, word processing and spreadsheets
• Demonstration of therapeutic optimism for working in a CRHTT service
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good inter team/interagency working relationships
• Able to demonstrate initiative and be proactive
• Approachable and flexible
• Commited to personal and team development

Desirable

• An understanding / experience of case management in teams

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Good understanding of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act , Safeguarding policies and procedures (Adult and Young People , Care Programme Approach
• Good knowledge of the referral systems and service provisions within the Trust
• Understanding of the local and national health economy
• Understanding of the implication of current national guidance i.e Mental Health Crisis Concordant on CRHTT services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CRHTT Peterborough

Cavell Centre

Peterborough

PE39GZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• To provide a direct service using psychological intervention and assessment tools, under supervision of the Clinical Psychologist.
• To support the Clinical Psychologists in preparation of team formulation sessions, i.e. completing file reviews and dissemination of formulation.
• To facilitate group work, including psychoeducation, CBT. DBT and ACT informed sessions. This may include co-facilitating groups alongside other members of the MDT.
• To facilitate individual psychological work, under the supervision of the Clinical Psychologist.
• Where indicated to carry out Brief Psychological Interventions, including Anxiety Management, Behavioural Activation and Distress Tolerance.
• To support completion of Cognitive Screening assessments and in some circumstances more detailed neuro-psychological assessments.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• An upper-second class honours degree or higher in psychology.
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Desirable

• A Master's degree and/or enrolled in a Master's course recognised by the British Psychological Society.

Other

Essential

• Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
• Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, responsible
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users.
• Capable of working effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the work (clinical, research).

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems and other disabilities.
• Ability to communicate (orally and in writing) highly complex, highly clinically sensitive and condition-related information to patients, families and other professionals.
• Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of often highly emotive and distressing problems.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge, underpinned by theory, to a mental health context.
• Ability to adapt style and/or intervention strategies to meet the challenges of complex and highly sensitive situations.
• Ability to maintain a high degree of ethical and professional standards.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the literature on psychosis.
• Knowledge of the literature pertaining to personality disorder.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties.
• Experience of delivering psychologically informed groups.
• Practical working knowledge of at least one relevant psychological approach e.g. CBT.

Desirable

• Experience of working in inpatient mental health settings.
• Experience of completing risk assessments.
• Experience of working with patients with cognitive difficulties.
• Experience of psychometric testing, scoring and report writing.
• Experience of working with challenging behaviour.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Cavell Centre

Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus

Bretton Gate, Peterborough

PE3 9GZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To provide clinical leadership and line management related responsibilities to the psychological professions in CALT.
• To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to the locality team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care
• To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors
• To use psychological formulations to develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, and to use these plans to inform and lead the work of non-psychology members of the team.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines and under the overall co-ordination of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
• To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
• To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate level training in clinical / counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS and HCPC.
• Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist

Desirable

• Chartered Psychologist.
• Undertaken relevant post-doctoral training in working with clients with complex psychological needs.
• Undertaken post-qualification further training in a specialised area of psychological practice e.g. neuropsychology, CBT, CBTp, CAT, DBT, solution focused therapy, analytical therapy, systemic / family work etc.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist at post-qualification and specialist level.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of adult mental health care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care-plan.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Desirable

• Experience of delivering supervision to non-psychology MDT staff.
• Experience of leading teams
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
• Skills in individual and group work and in programme planning.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Skills in self-management, including time-management
• High standard of report writing for communication with professionals from NHS, Local Authority and other agencies, parents/ carers and clients.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical perspectives of the adult group.

Desirable

• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• High-level knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment of adults.
• High-level knowledge and skills in working with carers.

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, psychological aspects of physical health difficulties, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Knowledge concerning the management of qualified psychologists, including recruitment and retention, appraisals, and other HR policies and processes.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychological medicine.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by BPS.
• An interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary services

Desirable

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Understanding of relevant National polices and their implications for service development

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Physical effort - ability to exert moderate physical effort during a session. Ability to sit for extended periods

Other

Essential

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to articulate clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for service initiatives. Has a commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area
• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self care and monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.

Desirable

• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Union House

Cambridge

CB4 1PR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

1. To work with vulnerable children, young people and adults who have been in contact with the youth and criminal justice systems. The Liaison and Diversion Service supports these clients to access support and treatment on a range of vulnerabilities and divert them away from the youth and criminal justice services where appropriate. The service also provides information and advice to ensure safe, effective, and appropriate outcomes within the youth and criminal justice system together with maximising the opportunity to reduce reoffending.

2. Qualified practitioners will undertake screening and specialist assessments of vulnerable people in the court and police custody setting across Cambridgeshire. The support workers role will give practical support to clients to meet a range of short-term objectives. The support worker will undertake lone working in the community under the supervision of the Liaison and Diversion Practitioners on shift.

3. Examples of practical support in this role will be assisting a client to register with a GP or supporting a client with a first appointment to a referred partner agency.

4. The post holder will work as a part of a team that delivers support and services to individuals who are involved in the criminal justice system. The post holder is primarily required to work in the community undertaking short term pieces of work with individuals referred to them by senior Liaison and Diversion Service. The post holder is expected to support individuals attend first appointments for assessments by other services such as drug and alcohol services, community mental health teams, autism services, housing, etc.

5. To increase access to and uptake up of healthcare and relevant services for people involved in the criminal justice system.

6. To reduce health inequalities for those involved in the criminal justice process.

7. To facilitate engagement and liaise with community healthcare and / or other services and enable delivery of a coordinated response.

8. To provide advocacy, practical support and to act as a voice for individuals who struggle to engage

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• To have NVQ Level 3 and/or care certificate in care (or equivalent) or willingness to work towards this.

Desirable

• Certificate in Mental Health Awards Framework, level 2, NVQ II or equivalent.
• Knowledge of current Mental Health Act
• Knowledge of benefit and employment services
• NVQ 1, 2 or 3 in health or social care or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with the public
• Previous experience working with service users who may have mental health difficulties, intellectual disabilities, autism, speech and language and communication needs, ADHD, acquired brain injury, personality disorder/trauma, and who may alcohol and substances as a way of coping
• Receptive to and able to use supervision appropriately
• Experience of the principles of recovery, person-centred planning, and safeguarding
• To understand mental health, learning disability, children and young people and substance misuse.
• Experience in a relevant care setting.

Desirable

• Experience of working with people within the Youth and Criminal Justice systems

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate at all levels
• Good literacy and numeric skills
• Good IT skills
• Ability to work in a demanding environment
• Able to transport patients and travel with them on public transport.
• To be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the organisation

Desirable

• Ability to motivate others
• Experience of NHS record keeping systems

KNowledge and Understanding

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity, empathy, and compassion to the needs of service users.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to form short therapeutic relationships with clients and carers
• An understanding of the importance of client carer involvement
• Awareness of local services and community provision

Desirable

• Ability to de-escalate a difficult situation
• Awareness of local partner agency resources

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Ability to be able to travel across county to meet the needs of the service users

Other

Essential

• Able to work occasional evenings and weekends subject to service demand.
• Post will be subject to police vetting
• Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Desirable

• Must be able to work as part of a team.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

53 Thorpe Road

53 Thorpe Road

Cambridge/Peterborough/Huntingdon

PE3 6AN

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• To support with the delivery of the Occupational Therapy pathway. This may include, but is not restricted to: assessment, analysis of results, care planning including prioritising and grading targets and goals; interventions on a group or individual basis, grading and adaptation of activities to suit individual strengths and needs and aspects of report-writing.
• Work with a degree of autonomy and as part of a team to manage a designated caseload within your scope of practice.
• To facilitate group sessions within the framework established by the Occupational Therapist.
• To provide goal directed treatment on an individual basis promoting independence, focusing on life skills, training, rehabilitation, community integration and the physical and psychosocial environment.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care.

*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant NVQ Level 3 in Care or appropriate AVCE in Health & Social Care, or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale and Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of paid or voluntary work with people with mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
• Experience of working within a team.

Desirable

• Experience working alongside occupational therapists/in an Occupational Therapy department

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to communicate information (verbal and written) effectively in a manner appropriate to the individual and situation.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Record Keeping (within agreed timescale).
• Time management and ability to prioritise effectively.
• Breakaway techniques (within agreed timescale).

Desirable

• Confidence with group facilitation.
• Awareness of relevant legislation

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Awareness of needs of service users with mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
• Knowledge of trauma informed practice and how it might impact on the delivery of occupational therapy interventions.
• Awareness of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
• Understanding of therapeutic terminology (within agreed timescale)
• Understanding of a variety of therapeutic approaches (within agreed timescale)
• Awareness of health & safety issues (within agreed timescale)

Desirable

• Knowledge of common occupational therapy interventions.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families and carers.
• Ability to work collaboratively with members of the MDT to provide an effective service.
• Committed to continual quality and service improvement
• Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
• Committed to promoting a positive image of the Occupational Therapy Service.

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Clare Lodge

8 Lincoln Road

Glinton, Peterborough

PE6 7AW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Mental Health practitioners will provide assessment and interventions for people with significant mental health conditions such as dementias, depression, psychotic illness and personality disorders.
• Offer training, advice and guidance to colleagues on common mental health conditions.
• Participate in MDT meetings and ensure key information is recorded in shared care plans
• Work closely with the mental health integrated care team in order to provide an excellent mental health service.
• Clinical Assessment of mental health needs.
• Assessment and management of risk.
• Participating in a duty rota to offer on call support and advice to service users and their carers.
• Holistic care planning and co-producing crisis plans with service users, keeping service users and their families at the heart of the intervention.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional registered qualification (Registered mental health nurse, Social Worker or Occupational therapist)
• Training in supervision and appraisal

Desirable

• Post qualifying training
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant experience in working within a mental health service
• Experience of working with older people with mental health needs
• Experience of clinical and managerial supervision of junior staff

Desirable

• Experience of working with an older people's community mental health service.
• Have a lived experience of mental health challenges

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Excellent clinical skill in assessment and interventions for common mental health conditions
• Excellent communication skills and ability to summarise information and communicate with colleagues

Desirable

• Experience of working with nursing home and care providers
• Experience as safeguarding lead

Knowledge and understanding

Essential

• Excellent understanding of statutory framework and care commissioning including: safeguarding, commissioning of care and Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity act

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
• Ability to sit for sustained periods of time

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brookfields Hospital

Cambridge

CB1 3DF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
• To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
• To undertake holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
• To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
• To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• Organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately.
• Contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and includingimmediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks.
• To demonstrate the importance of gaining patient and carer consent in all interventions.
• To contribute to and work towards the service/organisational aims and objectives of the Team and the new model of care.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• RGN Level 1 educated to degree level
• Evidence of professional development
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent.

Desirable

• Prescriber or willing to undertake
• Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

• Multidisciplinary working experience
• Management experience
• Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of things

Desirable

• Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
• Experience in delivering training

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• The ability to respond to changing situations
• Ability to develop effective working relationships
• Ability to exercise initiative
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service
• Ability to innovate

Desirable

• Extensive understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
• Demonstrate problem solving
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent documentation skills
• Excellent time Management and prioritisation Skills.

Physical requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
• Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

15 Mowlem Close

Impington

Cambridge

CB24 9NA

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated community nursing team.
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuing patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students
• To provide a high standard of care
• To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patients own home this includes lone working, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
• Will be expected to work as part of a 24/7 service
• To identify patient needs, agree goads and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• RGN Level 1, RGN Level 2
• Evidence of professional development

Experience

Essential

• Community experience

Desirable

• Primary care experience and experience in wound care

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
• Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans
• Ability to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults

Personal qualities

Essential

• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities for others
• Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
• Understands the principle of confidentiality
• Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Borderline Community Nursing Team

Botolph Bridge Community Health Centre

Peterborough

PE2 9QB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Word processing of all forms of correspondence, reports and summaries that are required by the team.
• To use effective telephone techniques to healthcare professionals, patients, and other agencies in a quick and efficient manner.
• Record information in the chosen software timely and accurately.
• Manage all calls within the defined time frame and in a controlled and professional manner.
• Deal with difficult callers in a calm and professional manner.
• Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
• Book interpreters, online, face to face and transcribing of documents.
• Inputting and updating service user information and service user/team activity on computerised information systems, creating service user notes where necessary and according to policy.
• Maintaining electronic records, ensuring that it is always kept up to date. In accordance with Trust procedures, track and receive notes in a timely manner.
• Ensure good customer service by providing a professional and effective telephone service, taking accurate messages, and providing information and signposting as requested and appropriate.
• Undertake training of new staff as directed by Line Manager and/or other managers.

Person Specification

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Excellent customer care skills.
• Good IT skills (MS Office)
• Ability to adopt an appropriate style and method of communication and deal effectively with people.
• Good Organisational Skills
• Excellent Telephone Manner, ability to listen and record accurate details and messages
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative when needed

Desirable

• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Knowledge of SystmOne, Teams and Microsoft Office

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a busy and demanding office/customer facing environment
• Experience of planning and organising own workload and of staff within own span of control.
• Experience of supporting a multi-disciplinary team.

Desirable

• Previous experience of working in an NHS office environment.
• Previous experience of working in a call handling environment.
• Knowledge of using outside commissioned interpreting companies.

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCE/GCSE standard.
• NVQ Level 2 in Administration or equivalent
• Good command of written English.

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

• Understanding of confidentiality and the importance of maintaining confidentiality for patients.
• Knowledge of Data Protection Act

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cambridge OPAC Admin Hub

Cambourne Business Park

Cambourne, Cambs

CB23 6EA

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities:

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

• To work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi professional team
• To be accountable for assessing interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education of peers, new staff, non registered staff, and students
• To provide high standards of nursing intervention within a patients own home, this includes lone working , with access to specialist and advanced practitioners when required

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• RGN level 1, RGN level 2
• Evidence of professional development

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification or equivalent
• Management of leg ulcer qualification

Experience

Essential

• Community experience

Desirable

• Primary care experience and experience in wound care

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
• Good communication skills
• Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans
• Support Integrated Care Workers and teach and support student nurses and HCA's.
• Ability to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people/ vulnerable adults.
• Good documentation skills

Desirable

• Understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development.
• Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others.
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others and understands confidentiality
• Responsible for maintaining registration with NMC and/or other professional bodies

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments.
• Move and manoeuvre people and equipment.
• Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan
• Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Cambridgeshire Hospital

Churchill Road

Wisbech

PE13 3AB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the Borderline Community Nursing Team.
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake an assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• Provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students.
• To supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care is delivered and staff achieve set competencies.
• To be accountable for a delegated caseload
• To priorities, all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
• To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within patients own homes this includes lone working, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required.
• To identify patient needs, agree on goals and provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own and delegated work.
• To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
• To undertake a holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
• To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
• To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• Organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately.
• Contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including immediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks.
• To demonstrate the importance of gaining patient and carer consent in all interventions.
• To effectively communicate verbally with patients, carers and colleagues using tact and persuasive skills. This may involve using skills where patients have difficulties in communication, e.g. hearing loss, diminished sight, depression, speech problems, cognitive impairment, behavioural problems and pain.
• To contribute to and work towards the service/organisational aims and objectives of the Team and the new model of care.
• To work effectively within the team structure and liaise appropriately with members of the MDT and other agencies by attending MDT meetings, case reviews.
• To ensure that accurate and timely written records are kept which comply with the Trust policy and NMC guidance, reporting on any issues as appropriate.
• To inform/update all members of the multi-disciplinary team, service users and appropriate others, of changes involving current care plans, patients progress and other relevant matters that pertain to the care of the patient.
• To support the Community nursing team with day to day planning and delivery of high-quality care.
• To support the team with a case management model.
• To support, educate and advise formal and informal carers with the nursing care which they can provide.
• To act as a patient advocate, providing information, health education and support to facilitate patient choice with regard to nursing care, promoting independence.
• To ensure that medications are stored and recorded according to the rules relating to the drugs policy of CPFT.
• To administer immunisations and vaccinations to adults in accordance with agreed protocols for patients on the current caseload.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• RGN level 1 educated to degree level.
• Post-registration qualification relevant to district nursing (DNSPQ or equivalent: Community Nursing Degree/ comprehensive community nursing CPD)
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Practice Assessor/ Supervisor

Desirable

• Management of leg ulcer qualification
• Prescriber or willing to undertake
• Wound care qualification
• Continence qualification

Experience

Essential

• Multidisciplinary working experience
• Management experience
• Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of settings
• Nursing in both acute and community settings

Desirable

• Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
• Experience in delivering training

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• The ability to respond to changing situations
• Ability to develop effective working relationships
• Ability to exercise initiative
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service
• Ability to innovate

Desirable

• Extensive understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Demonstrate an understanding of national government initiatives in health and social care and how these impact on local services
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
• Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings.
• Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others.

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
• Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

City Care Centre

Thorpe Road

Peterborough

PE3 6DB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)