Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our east and north PATH (Psychosis: Prevention, Assessment and Treatment in Hertfordshire) Service. PATH is a specialist service for those experiencing their first episode of psychosis in Hertfordshire.

Psychological Therapies within PATH team are going through an exciting time of transformation. Successful candidate will have the opportunity in playing an active role in services development, utilising and mastering their leadership as well as supervision, consultation and therapeutic skills. This time of transformation is the start of our journey in ensuring our service users receive the right treatment at the right time and can go on to lead fulfilling lives.  Do you want to be part of this exciting journey?

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and be skilled in working within recovery based, trauma informed and collaborative approaches to care planning, assessment, therapy, supervision and consultation. The successful candidate will be working flexibly and creatively with service users and other professionals in order to achieve the best outcomes for our patients.

The post holder will supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. The post-holder will work within the wider MDT. The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures, and utilize research skills for audit, policy, service development and research.

We offer a bespoke professional development plan. Psychologists would be encouraged to apply for HEE funded Family Intervention for Psychosis training and CBTp training as necessary. Regarding specialist professional development, PATH has close links with other Early Intervention services. There are opportunities to meet other EIP professionals outside of the Trust and attend CPD sessions run by the group. For applicants who are keen in development such as teaching and conducting research, there will also be such opportunities available. We have established links with University of Hertfordshire DClinPsy course and with King’s College London.

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust 

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…”