Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9451
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Orchards, Ashley Close, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8EH
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 per annum pro rata (+ 5% HCAS included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Psychological Therapist/CBT Therapist
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.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Primary Care Mental Health Service in North West Hertfordshire (Dacorum/St Albans) for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or CBT therapist to provide psychological interventions in primary care.
The post holder will be at the forefront in reviewing and leading the therapeutic provision offered within primary care, to meet the needs of the local population.
Psychological Therapists undertake an integral role supporting the wider MDT and are highly regarded within the Trust.
You will play an important role in the day to day running of local psychology provision, providing supervision to qualified and trainee psychological therapists and practitioners, overseeing psychology referrals and waiting list, and providing support and consultation to MDT colleagues.
Please can you be clear in your application form on how you meet the essential qualification criteria.
Main duties of the job
- The post-holder will provide specialist support, guidance and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers within community mental health services, primary care and other agencies.
- To provide supervision to band 7 psychological therapists / trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and other psychological therapies practitioners as required.
- The post-holder will work closely with the local and quadrant-wide psychological therapy teams, as well as a range of other psychological therapy colleagues within the service setting.
- The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- The post-holder will utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
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
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the teams, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service user s, family members and others involved in the service user’s care
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user ’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the designated quadrant lead.
- To participate in relevant special interest groups within the profession across the Trust and nationally as appropriate, to keep up with current developments.
- To contribute to service development projects within own service area and other relevant agencies as required. This can involve contributing to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service operational policies or other organizational issues, by initiating and using one’s professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist or other psychological therapy qualification with substantial experience.
- For Clinical/Counselling psychologists: Full registration with Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist or full registrations with BABCP or with appropriate professional body.
Desirable criteria
- Where relevant, post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with service users with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems including assessing and managing risk.
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical/counseling psychologist or registered therapist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service user’s psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of professional consultation, teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology/or other trainee(s).
Desirable criteria
- Formal supervision training
- Experience of delivering group-based interventions
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
- Tamara Morrison
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07770 682816
- Additional information
Adrienne Coward
07814 353426
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