Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-9375
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cygnet House
- Town
- Ware
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Band 7
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.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
We at HPFT have a long history of delivering outstanding care, and are taking our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment 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. This is an exciting time of change.
We are looking for a caring and committed HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who enjoys working flexibly and in collaboration as part of an MDT, supporting psychological ways of thinking. Experience of working within acute or crisis settings or specialist services engaging people with who have attracted psychosis or personality disorder diagnoses would be beneficial, but not essential. Willingness to work in community settings is essential.
If you have the relevant skills, are energetic, imaginative and, above all, care passionately about working with people and their families towards recovery, then we want to hear from you!
The role is based in the South-East CRHTT in Ware, where psychology is highly valued and sought after. You will be part of a vibrant, passionate, and supportive psychology crisis service that consists of APs, Therapists, Psychologists and a Lead Psychologist. The broad spread of roles gives real opportunity for progression within the service.
We don’t want you to miss out: 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 who are currently in a mental health crisis and are being supported by the South-East Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions, in both individual and group formats.
• Provide clinical supervision to the Assistant Psychologist embedded within the team along with 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 ways of working.
• Support the development and roll out of Trauma Informed Approaches across HPFT crisis services as we change the question people ask from "What is wrong with you?" to "What has 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 work with service users who are in a mental health crisis; to seek to understand and resolve the crisis through psychological means; to support the discharge of those service users back to mainstream services as quickly and safely as possible.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment 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
Essential criteria
- Experience working as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with clients with moderate to severe mental illness within a mental health setting.
- Current full registration with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or BABCP
Desirable criteria
- Additional training and qualification in one of NICE recommended therapy modalities
Areas of Experience, Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life span’s presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Knowledge of whole life span development and the impact on emotional, psychological and mental well-being.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one evidence based psychological interventions such as CBT, Systemic Therapy or Family Interventions.
- Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients who are experiencing a mental health crisis
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration.
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work and communicate therapeutically with clients and their families consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.
Analytical Skills
Essential criteria
- Positive problem-solving approach.
- Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work.
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to move between bases and offices, as required, using suitable mode of transport.
- IT Skills; including the use of Microsoft Office and Outlook, entering data onto electronic patient records.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Aaron Rai
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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