Senior Clinical Psychologist (Somatic Therapy) / Somatic Therapist

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

To provide group and individual interventions aimed at helping individuals reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and process trauma stored in the body.

To provide specialist clinical formulations, assessments, evaluations and interventions as required and contribute a somatic psychological perspective to multi-disciplinary reviews and discussions.

To provide support and supervision to other members of the clinical team, and to trainee clinical psychologists.

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 develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

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.

To provide a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

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.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Undertaken somatic therapy training and experience of somatic clinical practice
• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
• Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists

Desirable criteria

• Post-doctoral training in a therapeutic approach relevant to the treatment of eating disorders
• Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
• Experience of working with people with an eating disorder
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user 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 service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Able to demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Speciality

Desirable criteria

• Experience of training others.
• Experience of running therapeutic groups and managing group dynamics
• Experience of service development

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and understanding of the development of eating disorders and an ability to demonstrate compassion for the lived experience of this illness
• Knowledge and understanding about complex trauma and the application of somatic treatment to this population
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Knowledge and experience of working with people on the autism spectrum and those with ADHD

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of working with clients with embodied trauma and eating disorders
• Knowledge of NICE Guidance in the treatment of eating disorders
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with service users
• Motivated towards personal and professional development with strong CPD record

Other

Essential criteria

• Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
• Able to sit for long periods
• Ability to travel

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.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Somatic Clinical Psychologist JDPS (PDF, 408.4KB)
• Somatic Therapist JDPS (PDF, 360.6KB)
• CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
• CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
• CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)