Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (per annum)
- Job ref
- 367-SS-9776
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Marlowes Health and Wellbeing Centre, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1LD
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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 looking to appoint an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist to join our welcoming and psychologically minded team to provide a service of excellence for Older People within Hertfordshire. This post brings a diversity of experience, from providing specialist assessments and intervention, to supervising and supporting other members of the psychology team, and working closely with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team. We regularly offer placements to trainee clinical psychologists and the post holder will play a central role in offering supervision and working closely with the local university.
We also recognise the key role that consultation can play in developing our services and being a central part of our psychology offer. The ideal candidate for us will be someone who shares our values about offering compassionate and trauma-informed services, whether in the psychological therapies or the neuropsychological assessment aspect of the service. The ethos of the team is one of continuous quality improvement and co-producing what our clients require, and we are looking for candidates who share a passion for service development and innovation. We hope that candidates will bring skills and knowledge to support audit, research, and project development within the service.
Main duties of the job
The key duties of the job will involve completion of specialist psychological assessment (including risk assessment) and treatment of clients referred to the service. The postholder also will be responsible for providing highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to a client's formulation, diagnosis and case management plan.
The key duties will also involve providing professional and clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists working in the service. Other important duties will involve supporting psychological aspects of service development, evaluation, research and teaching and maintaining standards in supervision and CPD.
Please see job description and person specification for further 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for detail of the main responsibilities of the job.
Person specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent.
- Registered as either a clinical/counselling psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Desirable criteria
- Additional post graduate training or qualification in a specific psychological therapy or Neuropsychology.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist assessment and therapy with service users across a range of care settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups with presenting problems that reflect a 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 working in a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with older people in a clinical role.
- Direct experience of using therapy with older people
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychological services 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 Francesca Payne
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07811486537
- Additional information
Dr Rebecca Scullion
Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead (SW quadrant)
07966 554360
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