North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
The post holder will work within the Familiar Faces team and be part of the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Psychology. The Department offers specialist psychological input across Cumbria to patients with health and neurological problems.
Familiar Faces (FF) offers specialist input to adults across Cumbria, with complex physical, psychological and social difficulties, who may have chronic pain, medically unexplained symptoms, functional neurological symptoms and/or chronic fatigue. The patients seen by FF frequently attend across the health economy, often resulting in unnecessary interventions and procedures with the increased risk of potential harm. This also causes a pressure on the financial resources across the health and social care economy.
The Familiar Faces service offers specialist psychological input to those people who present frequently to GP, Ambulance and A&E Services but who do not have high levels of frailty or severe physical illness. This post will entail working both directly and indirectly with this group of clients who often have complex physical and psychosocial needs and with the services upon whom they place the greatest demands.
This post will contribute to this service aim and promote:
- Integrated working in primary and secondary care, across the heath economy/ICC
- Collaborative work with other professionals
- Teaching
- Training
- Supervision
Main duties of the job
Please see the full job description and person specification for a comprehensive list or roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with the regulatory body eg. BABPC, RCN or HCPC
- Either: Clinical Psychologist: HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist. BPS Accredited Clinical Psychology Training. Or : Health or Counselling Psychologist: HCPC registered Health or Counselling Practitioner Psychologist, with experience in clinical practice working with patients with health problems and long term conditions Or: Cognitive Behavioural Therapist With completed appropriate training in CBT therapy, eg Diploma, accredited by the BABCP, and equivalent to a Doctoral degree or higher level of professional knowledge, training and experience
- Prepared to undertake a substantial Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice, at least equivalent to a post-graduate diploma, or equivalent professional development
Desirable
- Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychological interventions.
- Post-qualification training in evidence based therapies eg. EMDR, CFT, ACT.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with patients with wide range of psychological problems, e.g. community mental health, long term health conditions
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, typically across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in clients with physical health difficulties and emotional distress
- Knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis in psychological intervention.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience in the area of service of this post
- Experience of the application of psychological approaches in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with groups of service users.
- Experience of team working
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of the biopsychosocial model and its application in a clinical setting.
- Knowledge of current local and national drivers and models for services and developments within the NHS.
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in spoken and written communication of complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional individuals and groups.
- A commitment to working in a compassionate way with colleagues and clients alike.
- Awareness of one’s own psychological health and the capacity to take responsibility for appropriate preventative and/or therapeutic strategies.
- Ability to use computers efficiently for word processing and Email. Knowledge of Microsoft Office functions and a willingness to further develop these as required.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Aptitude in service development
- Clinical leadership skills
Desirable
- Ability to use computers to generate spreadsheets, graphs, etc.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability and willingness to work flexibly across all service locations in Cumbria as appropriate and required by the service
- Ability to travel to any PHRP locations independent of Public transport
Closing Date: 22 October 2026
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