Job summary
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Band 8a
This is an exciting opportunity fora suitably qualified andexperienced Band 8a to take on the role of Clinical/Counselling Psychologist role within Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) CAMHS. HPFT CAMHS is an innovative and dynamic service, being a lead service for New Care Models, first wave for CYP-IAPT, accelerator site for i-Thrive and a trailblazer site for Mental Health Support Teams in schools which are now established across Hertfordshire.
The CQC has rated HPFT as an Outstanding Trust, one of only 5 of 58 Mental Health and Learning Disability Trusts to achieve this in the country. Over the last 10 years we have truly embedded a value base in our organisation which is felt throughout the Trust and which staff consistently cite as making HPFT a good place to work. Last year we won the HSJ 'Mental Health Trust of the Year' award.
The HPFT CAMHS service includes four community based 'Tier 3' teams, a crisis assessment/treatment team (C-CATT), an Eating Disorder Team, an inpatient unit (Forest House) and a Targeted Team for looked after or adopted children. We have recently operationalised our CAMHS Home Treatment and DBT teams and offer a range of psychological therapies across these teams. We have close links with other agencies including the local 'Tier 2' CAMHS service, school link workers and children's social services.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an innovative and forward-thinking Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to continue the exciting growth and expansion of the discipline across the Trust.Clinical and Counselling Psychology is highly valued in HPFT CAMHS. You will be an integral part of the team for the South Quadrant (Watford and Borehamwood clinics) whilst being part of a lively psychological community that meets regularly. You will work alongside the Band 8a Clinical Psychologist based in Watford.As such, you will be the Service Supervisor of trainees, assistant psychologist, CBT therapists and band 7 clinical psychologists based in Borehamwood, as well as contribute more widely, through consultations and supervisions, to the development of clinical practice and expertise in the Quadrant. As part of your clinical responsibilities, you will also hold a caseload of complex cases, offering specialist assessments and Clinical or Counselling Psychology interventions. For a fuller description of duties, please consult the Job Description and Personal Specification.
The candidate will be joining a thriving team based across two sites in the South quadrant of Hertfordshire, Borehamwood and Watford, and will be an integral member of the team.
The CAMHS South team are welcoming, inclusive, diverse and reflective, working creatively in meeting the needs of the service users ,their families. and each other.
About us
"Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just fivemental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare 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.
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:
Our Trust values are:
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?
Then please read on..."
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are supportive of each other and work closely together, creating a safe and supportive place to work. Also, we continue to offer flexible working in supporting team members and the service
For detailed job description and responsibilities, please see person specification within the job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are supportive of each other and work closely together, creating a safe and supportive place to work. Also, we continue to offer flexible working in supporting team members and the service
For detailed job description and responsibilities, please see person specification within the job description.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed and accredited training as a Counselling Psychologist.
- At least two years 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
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice including CBT.
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. Typically this would involve a minimum of 2 years at specialist level, or its equivalent demonstrated through CV and interview.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling 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 of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s).
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary therapy service.
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, child and adolescent mental health and a range of therapeutic models
- 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 specialist psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg 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 HCPC.
- 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, caress and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to plan own workload; and coordinate with other relevant staff in the delivery of clinical service
- 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 // counseling psychology.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to children/adolescents
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed and accredited training as a Counselling Psychologist.
- At least two years 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
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice including CBT.
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. Typically this would involve a minimum of 2 years at specialist level, or its equivalent demonstrated through CV and interview.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling 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 of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s).
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary therapy service.
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, child and adolescent mental health and a range of therapeutic models
- 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 specialist psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg 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 HCPC.
- 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, caress and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to plan own workload; and coordinate with other relevant staff in the delivery of clinical service
- 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 // counseling psychology.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to children/adolescents
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
