Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical, Counselling or Psychological Therapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9410-A
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Apsley Campus Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9DQ
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- £56,442 - £63,529 per annum pro rata (5% HCAS inclusive)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical, Counselling or Psychological Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
The pioneering and award-winning Family Safeguarding Service in Hertfordshire is we are seeking a part time (0.5) Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist who is motivated to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable families in Hertfordshire.
The post is based within the Family Safeguarding Service of Hertfordshire County Council but are employed by Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust and practice governance is provided from the NHS Trust. The posts are focused on the parents of the children and their families involved with the service and would best suit a practitioner with relevant experience of assessing and providing psychological interventions with adults with various mental health presentations.
Main duties of the job
A first in the UK, Hertfordshire’s ground-breaking family safeguarding model brings together all the professionals needed, under one roof, to provide intensive support to parents to address the substance misuse, mental health and domestic abuse that place children at risk of significant harm. An important focus of the project is to invest in training all team members to a high standard in motivational interviewing, to engage parents and children in conducting their own assessments of risk and change, to make group work and strengthening relationships work part of our everyday work. The model has been positively evaluated by the DFE and is currently being adopted by many other Local Authorities around the UK.
Pleases read the job description for more details.
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 4,000 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.https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/
About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust
Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holders will be based at Hertfordshire County Council offices in Apsley. A hybrid model of agile, virtual and face to face working is in practice. Assessments and Interventions can sometimes take place in service user’s homes and at different sites across Hertfordshire so a car driver with access to a car is essential (unless the candidate is unable due to a disability). There are professional links across Hertfordshire, with structures in place for supervision and governance. There are also strong links with the University of Hertfordshire Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Training Course with opportunities for contributing to teaching and taking trainee clinical psychologists on placement.
Hertfordshire County council’s Children’s Services has been rated as good (with parts of the service rated as outstanding) and HPFT was rated ‘outstanding’ in our most recent CQC inspection.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, counselling psychology, medicine, social work and occupational therapy, a recognised qualification in cognitive behaviour therapy or to have substantial other relevant experience and with demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field. AND: Diploma and / or M.Sc. in CBT leading to demonstrable eligibility for accreditation with the BABCP.
- OR Completion of DBT Intensive Training and PG Certificate in DBT. Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession, e.g. NMC or HPCP
Desirable criteria
- Significant post qualification experience
- Experience of supervising of qualified clinical staff from a range of professional backgrounds including Chartered Psychologists.
- Post qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: parent-infant relationships, attachment, complex trauma, or family systems.
- Training in risk assessment and management.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist within Adult Mental Health services or services related to safeguarding and/or complex families, which could include the Local Authority, Forensic Services or relevant Third Sector organisations.
- Experience of assessing and managing high-risk individuals or families in the community in collaboration with a multi-agency network.
- Experience of providing supervision, training and teaching.
- Experience of working with families in which maltreatment/severe parenting breakdown has occurred.
- Experience of delivering parenting interventions.
- Experience of providing expert witness reports and testimony in family court proceedings.
- Experience in forensic risk assessment and forensic psychological assessment tools.
- Experience of multi-professional leadership of teams or services.
- Experience of the application of 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
- Dr Clare Norris
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342060119
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