Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-9374
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingfisher Court
- Town
- Radlett
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Band 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.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Here at HPFT we have a long history of delivering outstanding care, and we are taking our inpatient psychological therapies service to the next level. Through an extensive expansion of our psychology provision, we are in a period of skill development with the wider workforce and embedding trauma informed approaches across all wards. This is an exciting time of change.
We are looking for a caring and committed 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in supporting change. If you have the relevant skills, are energetic, imaginative and, above all, care passionately about working with individuals and their families towards recovery, then we want to hear from you!
The role is based in the innovative and purpose-built Kingfisher Court, Radlett. You will form part of a vibrant, passionate, and supportive inpatient psychology service. You will be based on Owl ward, an 18 bedded male treatment ward. Psychology is highly valued and sought after in this unit.
For the right candidate we would consider a developmental period from Band 7 to Band 8a.
We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date - Apply now!
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
• Provide a specialist psychology service to service users on the adult mental health wards.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision, advice and consultation to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment.
• Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, and underpinned by principles of recovery and knowledge of trauma informed approaches.
• Support the development and roll out of Trauma Informed Approaches across HPFT inpatient services as we change the question people ask from "What’s wrong with you?" to "What’s happened to you?"
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:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to Acute Services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client’s formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory with a focus on Trauma Informed Approaches.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification i.e. Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Practitioner Psychologist Clinical
- Professional qualification doctoral level or equivalent, which should include knowledge and application of research methodology
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in inpatient or crisis services
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face off highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Knowledge of and some experience of cognitive and neuropsychological assessment
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of physical illness and its impact on psychological health
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research etc.
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 Peter Ord
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07815025281
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