Site Saffron Ground, Ditchmore Lane, Stevenage SG1 3LJ Town Stevenage
Salary £46,148 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 05/12/2024 23:59
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 in 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.
Full-time Clinical Psychologist post for recruitment at Band 8a in North Hertfordshire.
We welcome applications from newly or recently qualified psychologists and will consider applications for a Band 7 - 8a Development Post for applicants with experience and interest in working with older people. We welcome applications from non-UK trained psychologists working towards fulfilling HCPC requirements to qualify as a clinical psychologist in the UK and who need experience in working with older people.
Applicants should be registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC or in a position to register in the near future, if they complete their training in 2024.
Main duties of the job
The psychologists in our well-established Older People's Service have special interests in CBT, DBT, Systemic approaches, and Neuropsychology. They are valued members of our specialist community multi-disciplinary teams, including a well-established Early Memory and Diagnosis Service.
This post involves delivering a range of assessments and interventions, including neuropsychological diagnostic assessments, cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapies, and positive behavioural support for behaviours of concern in dementia. There will be opportunities to contribute to service developments and to develop your clinical leadership skills.
The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments, psychological treatments, and evidence-based interventions for older people, their families, and carers accessing memory services and local community mental health teams.
The post holder will provide support, development, supervision, and guidance to other team members, as well as a similar consultation service to professionals within community health services, primary care, and other agencies.
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:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service for older people with mental health issues and to all adults with dementia in North of the county.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and support the governance of psychological practice within the North Herts MHSOP community mental health team.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by assistant psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To undertake specialised clinical work within the MHSOP Psychology service and with external agencies, which will include assessment, direct and indirect intervention, supervision, training, and consultancy. To provide specialist knowledge and consultation to staff where appropriate and relevant.
Where required, to contribute specialist psychological skills and advice with regards to the design and implementation of strategic planning, organisational and service developments, staff training, and support initiatives within the service and Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and to other professional organisations.
To utilise research and training skills and knowledge to support audit, policy and service development, research activity, and other programmes within the service.
Person specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION
* Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent.
* Registered as either a clinical/counselling psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
* Additional post-graduate training or qualification in a specific psychological therapy or Neuropsychology.
EXPERIENCE
* Experience of specialist assessment and therapy with service users across a range of care settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups with presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience of working within older people in a clinical role.
* Direct experience of using therapy with older people.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of psychological services in different cultural contexts.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* Skills in the use of complex assessment, therapy, or intervention.
* Well-developed skills in communicating effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
* Knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychological services.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups (e.g., people with cognitive impairment).
* High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* Knowledge of capacity and other legislation in relation to the client group.
OTHER
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”. This year, our staff rated us the 4th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide, and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing, and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful, and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs, and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity, and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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