A 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 is 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 opportunity 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. 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. 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 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. Our Trust Values Are 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 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? For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Oliver Pugh Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: o.pughnhs.net Telephone number: 07779548989