Job summary
- Main area
- Enhanced Support Team for adults with a Learning (Intellectual) Disability
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-10132
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tekhnicon House
- Town
- Braintree Essex
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
We are excited to appoint an innovative and experienced Band 8b Clinical Psychologist to work in a well established Enhanced Support Team (EST) in an adult Learning Disability Service in North Essex, in HPFT. The role of the EST is to support people to remain in the community and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions through rapid response, focused assessment, intervention and support and short-term treatment. This is a full time permanent post. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to join an established and dynamic multi disciplinary team where the role of psychology is valued. The post holder will have responsibilities in North Essex, using offices in Kao Park (Harlow), Tekhnicon House (Braintree) and the Lexden Site (Colchester). There will be opportunities for some remote working.
Main duties of the job
This role will involve taking a lead with clinical issues and holding responsibilities for psychological services, primarily for the Enhanced Support Service in North Essex LD service. The post holder will be responsible for carrying out highly specialist psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions for adults across a range of ability levels and offer support for their families and carers, as well as offering advice and consultation on service user psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues. Alongside holding a small caseload, the successful applicant will play a major role in the supervision and management of other members of the psychology service. They will be actively involved in service development and use research skills for audit, research and to contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychology service provision. The service has active links with both Essex and Hertfordshire Clinical Psychology Training Programmes and there will be opportunities for teaching, continuing professional development and research, depending on the applicant’s interest.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to adults with learning disabilities and service providers and carers within the North Essex area, both within the community and in-patient services as necessary. The role will include a particular focus on working with service users referred to the Enhanced Support Team. The successful candidate will provide highly specialised specialist psychological assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on service user psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. They will use research skills for audit, service development and research and to contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychology service provision.
All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Full Registration as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Accredited as a Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst or equivalent accreditation in Positive Behaviour Support or Applied Behaviour Analysis.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Post graduate training in Positive Behaviour Support or Applied Behaviour Analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level with people with a learning disability.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention.
- Previous experience of using Positive Behaviour support with people who have learning disabilities, their families & carers.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Spencer
- Job title
- Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789 943708
- Additional information
Nina Viljoen (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) can also be contacted on [email protected] or 07879817531
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Colonnades
Hatfield
AL10 8YE
- Telephone
- 07484 987720
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