Job summary
- Main area
- Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Would be required to cover predominately Hoddesdon but potentially covering our other sides WGC and Bishops Stortford.)
- Job ref
- 367-CYP-9800
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hoddesdon Health Centre, 34C High St, Hoddesdon EN11 8BQ
- Town
- Hoddesdon
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,303 max £2,198)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/12/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist 8a
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in an 8a role as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist within our Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS, formerly known as CAMHS) multidisciplinary team. The role involves delivering a high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families in the East of Hertfordshire, with our three bases, predominantly Hoddesdon but may be required to cover Welwyn Garden City and Bishop Stortford.
You will have HCPC registration and provide a highly specialist child and adolescent service within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both core work and specific/specialist work. HPFT has been at the forefront on national developments in CYPMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT,
CYPMHS East is a caring, supportive and hard-working team which prides itself in working in collaboratively with young people and stakeholders in service delivery. There are opportunities to take a lead in areas of service delivery.
You will have strong links with professional colleagues in the wider CYPMHS. In addition to the inpatient unit, our CYPMHS includes a Tier 4 Home Treatment Team, four community clinic Tier 3 teams, a Targeted Team for looked after children, a specialist Eating Disorder Team, a Crisis Team and a DBT team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children and their families/carers/networks who have mental health issues. They will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing interventions in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT. They will work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. They will undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
They will act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is 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
- Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family setups, including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties .
- Have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Maintain close working relationships with child therapy colleagues and other psychological therapists, both locally and CAMHS-wide
- Promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in all areas of the quadrant and build good relationships with clients, their families, carers / other external agencies as required.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and under the supervision of a more senior psychologists and take an important role in the provision of specialist psychology services.
- Responsible for assessing and treating children, young people and their families/carers in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems.
- Maintain adequate clinical notes as well as reports for internal use and external agencies, as well as maintaining good communication with referrers and other professionals involved with young people attending the clinic.
Please check the job description attached for further information
Person specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
- Post -doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
- Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Desirable criteria
- Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity includingmaintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
- Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations tolarge groups
- Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
- Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members contributions
- Positive problem solving approach
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
- IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook
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 Julian Powis
- Job title
- Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01707 364001
- Additional information
Julian works across the two sites and can be contacted on these numbers:
Welwyn Garden City: 01707 364001
Hoddesdon: 01992 465042
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