Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
An opportunity has arisen for a full-time 1 WTE, 8b Clinical Psychologist within adult community mental health services in Borehamwood based at Civic Offices.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established team within community mental health. Psychology is highly valued by the team and is seen as a core component of service provision.
The post holder will mainly focus on the provision of specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist Psychological Service to clients with moderate to severe mental health problems in clusters 5 - 17 + 0.
2. Supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists, and other clinical members of the team.
3. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care.
4. Utilising research skills for audit, policy, and service development.
5. Proposing and implementing policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
6. Engaging in service development initiatives, providing teaching/training, and consultation across the Trust.
For an informal chat, please contact Dr Vanessa Cowle on 07974 071937.
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 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 provides 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.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
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.
Address
Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Herts WD6 1WA
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
367-ACMS-9081
Job locations
Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Herts WD6 1WA
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