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Working for CPFT is the ideal opportunity for those committed to supporting people of all ages in the community to achieve the very best they can for their health and wellbeing. With a vast amount of opportunities available, we are looking for professionals that share our values and have the right attitude to make a difference. It is a chance for you to share your experience and knowledge within your field.

There are lots people that provide support to both clinical and non-clinical staff. Some support patients directly while others work behind the scenes to make our patients' journeys smooth and as easy as possible. These include:

• Receptionist
• Administrators, personal and executive assistants
• Communications and public relations
• Finance
• Recruitment
• Human resources
• eRostering
• Data
• Management

To find out about our latest administrative and clerical vacancies please visit our Administrative Vacancies page. 

As a Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW), you will be a valued member of your team. Your focus will be on keeping patients at the centre of all we do, providing high quality care and living our Trust values - PRIDE.

CURRENT REQUIREMENTS

As a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic, we are excited to announce an expansion of our existing Intermediate Care Team to support our discharge to assess model.  We are recruiting integrated care workers to provide care and therapy support in our teams across Cambridge & Peterborough working in the community within people’s homes.  Details can be found through this link.

You would work with an individual practitioner or a team, taking on tasks such as welcoming and preparing patients, explaining treatment and updating patient records.

At Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, we understand the importance of clinical support in order for our Trust to provide an excellent service for our users. Our clinical support opportunities range from working as a Peer Support Worker to working as a Health Care Assistant.

Our Clinical Support Staff come from many different backgrounds and all walks of life, but all have certain qualities in common.  Our values of PRIDE applies to your behaviour towards patients, staff and visitors. We expect all our staff to live these values as the foundation of our culture.  To see if being an HCSW is for you, answer the following questions. If most of your answers are “yes” then this could be the job for you. Do you:

• like working with people and want to help?
• want to make a difference in people’s lives?
• communicate well?
• enjoy helping people feel at ease?
• recognise when someone is anxious or in distress and want to help?
• care about vulnerable people?
• respect people’s beliefs and attitudes even when these differ from yours?
• feel you could preserve somebody’s dignity, no matter their situation?
• feel you could look after someone in the last days or hours of their life?
• think you could cope with work shifts that might start early and/or finish late?
• care about supporting someone in difficult circumstances and leaving them with a smile on their face?

Roles at CPFT include:

• dietetic assistant
• healthcare assistant
• occupational therapy support worker
• physiotherapy assistant
• podiatry assistant
• speech and language therapy assistant
• integrated care worker
• assistant practitioner
• peer support worker

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. Together with global, national and local partners, we conduct high-quality and ground-breaking research into mental and physical health and support innovation to improve patient care. Our medical workforce are integral to our success as a Trust in providing high quality care.

We are a health and social care organisation and have clinical teams providing different services in inpatient, community and primary care settings. Services include: adult mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, Older people’s mental health, children’s mental health, hcildren’s community, older people and adult community, psecialist learning disability, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

We support a population of just under a million people and employ just over 4,000 staff. Our biggest bases are at the Cavell Centre, Peterborough, and Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge, but our staff are based in more than 50 locations.

Working for CPFT is the ideal opportunity for doctors committed to supporting people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and wellbeing. With many great opportunities available, this is the chance for you to apply your current experience and knowledge within a field that is looking for professionals who share our values and have the right attitude to make a difference.

We have a medical staffing workforce of over 100 consultant psychiatrists and specialty doctors. They provide general and specialist services to service users of all ages across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, in the community or an inpatient setting.

Our higher specialist training scheme for general adult psychiatry has approximately 14 trainees across a three year programme. Higher trainees will spend a year in acute psychiatry with 6 months on an acute adult ward in Cambridge or Peterborough, rotating with 6 months in the associated Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. A second year of higher training will be with a community-based mental health team in Cambridge, Huntingdon or Peterborough, providing medical input and leadership to a multidisciplinary community team.

The third year of training is spent in a specialist post. CPFT offers several different specialist experiences, including liaison psychiatry (leading to an endorsement), eating disorders, early intervention in psychosis, and personality disorders.  Specialist posts leading to endorsements are subject to competition in a Deanery-wide system allowing trainees to also apply for other experiences in nearby Trusts, including substance misuse and rehabilitation psychiatry.

Higher trainees have two sessions per week to pursue special clinical interests or research. We have many opportunities available including our adult ADHD clinic, other specialist clinics or research opportunities.  Many of our clinical supervisors have strong links with the University of Cambridge, with research that includes work on imaging studies, immunology, ADHD, biomarkers for depression and clozapine. We are also fortunate to have several academic higher trainees in ACL or ACF posts.

Peterborough and Cambridge have ongoing training opportunities including case conferences, academic lectures and opportunities to further develop competencies in teaching and training.  CPFT hosts the Deanery-funded Leading for Improvement (LEAP) leadership course to help higher trainees develop medical leadership competencies. We participate in the Chief Residents Leadership and Management Programme with Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) and the Judge Business School.

Cambridgeshire is an ideal place to live and work, with great local facilities, easy access to London and a family-friendly high standard of living.

Our higher training scheme will demonstrate why psychiatry is such a uniquely rewarding and challenging medical specialty. It will support your ongoing specialist training to become a clinical leader in delivering high quality mental health care of the future.

For further information about the training scheme, please contact Dr Rebecca Jacob, local TPD Rebecca.Jacob@cpft.nhs.uk or for general enquiries about the medical workforce, please contact the Medical Services team via email to either ruth.preston@cpft.nhs.uk or Sandra.cooper@cpft.nhs.uk

Our nursing workforce is crucial for our Trust to continue to provide the highest quality of care to our community. Our aim is to provide you with a supportive and inclusive environment in which you can thrive.  CPFT offer great opportunities to gain experience in a leading mental health, physical health and learning disability Trust. Our values drive all that we do and our commitment to provide high-quality, safe and effective care ensures that we make a positive difference to our community.

We are committed to helping you with your on-going professional development, through our comprehensive learning and development training programmes.  We are looking for nurses to work within the community or an in-patient setting in a range of nursing areas, including:

• Learning disabilities
• Older people's mental health
• Children’s mental health
• Adult mental health
• Adult nursing
• District nursing
• Community nursing

We offer our nursing staff fulfilling and rewarding career opportunities, a strong nursing leadership team to support and guide you, and continuing professional development which will challenge and inspire you.

For newly registered nurses we run a highly supportive preceptorship programme. You will have an experienced registered nurse as a mentor, monthly study days and plenty of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and competency.

For experienced nursing staff there’s a real diversity of roles available, geographically across the Trust’s area as well as across the services we provide in mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disability.

A clinical psychologist provides psychological assessment and treatment for people within a range of community and in-patient settings. Clinical psychologists help people to manage their conditions through a variety of treatment approaches.

Assessments may be carried out through interviews, questionnaires and direct observation. Assessment may lead to therapy, counselling or advice.  Treatments include cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychotherapy.

Counselling psychologists use talking therapies to help individuals and groups manage mental and emotional problems, as well as empowering people to make positive changes in their lives. Treatments are tailored to suit individual and group needs. They are suitable for people with more complex conditions, such as personality issues, psychosis, treatment resistant depression, complex trauma, developmental disorders and acquired deficits.

A person’s unique make up, including their history, personality, preference, cognitive ability, cultural identities and current presentation are taken into account when designing treatment plans.

Psychological Wellbeing Service

CPFT's Psychological Wellbeing Service is part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services. Our aim is to make psychological therapies more accessible to people experiencing common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. The psychological therapies offered are approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). 

This service is set up to help those aged 17 and over who are suffering from mild to moderate depression and anxiety disorders, including generalised anxiety, social anxiety, post traumatic stress, health anxiety, panic, phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder. 

Our service has over 200 staff including PWPs, High Intensity Therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Senior Clinicians, Service Managers and Administrators.

We pride ourselves on the support we offer to staff and provide an extensive programme of CPD for all our clinicians, together with weekly clinical supervision and monthly line management.

Our services are focused on delivering high quality therapy, with high recovery rates exceeding the national target of 50% and high levels of patient satisfaction.

We deliver a wide range of digital-based interventions including traditional telephone therapy, online guided self-help packages, and therapy via video conferencing software for individuals and groups. We also deliver a range of interventions to support people who are living with a long-term condition in conjunction with a range of physical health providers.

Our diverse range of services offers a wide variety of opportunities to members of the Allied Health Professions.  AHPs are key members of our healthcare teams, providing therapeutic help, clinical advice, and rehabilitation and treatment for our service users, who are all living with mental ill health, physical ill health or learning disabilities.

We are looking for staff who know that great care is all about making a difference to people’s lives. We want staff who are keen to share learning and experiences with colleagues and who want to work together to embrace best practice and embed continuous improvement and innovation. At CPFT we employ:

• Physiotherapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Arts Therapists
• Music Therapists
• Dramatherapists
• Dietitians
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Podiatrists
• Paramedics 

We can offer you:

• A wide range of working environments, including forensic and children’s mental health
• Roles that can be tailored to suit you
• The space to innovate and develop, with many opportunities to build your skill base through ongoing professional development
• Relocation expenses & ‘New Hire Bonus’ may also be available.

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Preceptorship

We offer all newly-qualified AHPs a preceptorship programme which supports their transition from newly-registered professional to competent practitioner. We will guide you through your preceptorship, helping you develop your skills, knowledge and practice and making sure you become an effective and confident allied health professional.

Returning to practice

We have supported several staff with existing AHP qualifications to return to the Health and Care Professions Council register. We have also employed people as therapy assistants, supporting them through their re-registration process.