Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work 0.4 WTE (2 days per week) as part of a job share, providing psychological leadership within Welwyn Garden City Adult Community Mental Health Service.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established team within community mental health. Psychological services are embedded in local community teams, but also work collaboratively with other psychological therapists across the East and Southeast Hertfordshire region. Psychological services are highly valued by the multi-disciplinary team and are seen as a core component of service provision.
The post holder will focus on ensuring the provision of specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care. They will work with clients with moderate to severe mental health problems in clusters 5 - 17 + 0. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care.
The postholder will supervise and support other psychologists, psychological therapists, and clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
There are opportunities to engage in service development initiatives, provide teaching/training, and consultation across the Trust. An example of this may be to help implement the Trust strategy of developing Trauma-informed care across local services.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 including CBT, 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 clients' formulations, diagnoses, and treatment plans.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provides 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:
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 to 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?
Job responsibilities
In return, we can offer you:
* Leadership and management training opportunities
* 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (up to a maximum of £2,122 per annum)
* 27-33 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
* One of the UK's best pension schemes
* Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good honours degree in psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
* 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.
* Well-developed full-time post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
* Full registration with Health Professions Council
* Related academic qualifications to masters or doctorate level
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Experience and/or training in neuropsychological assessment
* Specific Training in Family/Systemic Interventions, CBT-P, DBT, MBT, EMDR, ASD/ADHD assessment/intervention.
Experience
* Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. Typically, this would involve substantial highly specialist level experience, or its equivalent demonstrated through CV and interview.
* Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems, including medically unexplained symptoms, physical health problems, and personality difficulties.
* Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment.
* Experience working within a multi-disciplinary therapy service.
* Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of older age psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (e.g., multiple mental health and/or physical health problems). Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in assessment, therapeutic intervention or research/evaluation.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HPC.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively and well, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Able to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to older people.
* Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
* Experience of having published in either peer-reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., dual diagnoses, people with co-morbid conditions: physical health, social complexity, psychologically complex histories).
* Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi-media materials for formal presentations to large groups.
* Experience of working within MHLT or acute services.
* Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software.
* Skilled in appropriate and up-to-date disengagement techniques.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
£64,337 to £74,415 a year, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
367-ACMS-9162
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