Job summary
We're looking for a talented and experienced CBT Therapist, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, with proven leadership experience, to clinically co-lead our innovative and forward looking online Talking Therapies Digital Team. It's a truly exciting time- we're continually expanding our service and looking at innovative ways of delivering therapy and thriving as a team. The role will provide a genuine opportunity for you to exercise your leadership skills and clinical expertise in collaboration with the Service Manager, Talking Therapy Clinical Lead and Service Line Lead. Your role is pivotal in setting the tone for digital innovation across the team and establishing new ways of working.
Main duties of the job
You will provide specialist supervision, clinical leadership, consultation, guidance and training to Senior Clinicians, High Intensity CBT therapists, Senior PWPs, PWPs and Assistant Psychologists, carrying your own small caseload of clients with common mental illness. You will liaise with and support pathways into and out of our Here For You, staff support service and will work with our Communications team to promote our work, both internally and external to the organisation.
HPFT Talking Therapy services are focused on delivering high quality therapy, being amongst the highest performers in the region and we expect nothing less from our digital team. Our services continue to exceed the national target of 50% recovery rate and patient satisfaction is high. You will play a key role in monitoring team and individual performance and working with the Senior Team to responsively implement and sustain strategies of quality improvement.
As well as one to one online therapy, we deliver innovative groups and webinars for our clients, across a range of conditions / circumstances and have established our digital team as the main host for developing and disseminating these initiatives in future.
You will have substantial clinical experience within the NHS, will have the knowledge and ability to lead a team of clinicians and initiate projects, seeing them through to completion, with the support of the senior colleagues.
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 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
As the Deputy Clinical Lead for our Digital Team, you will be pivotal in nurturing team cohesion, motivation and enthusiasm for team activity. You will have knowledge and experience of supporting remote workers and the challenges faced by individuals working from home. Wed like to see a real passion for primary care mental health, and the real difference this can make to service users and carers. Its a challenging role, in a challenging environment, but we believe it will provide a talented and ambitious Deputy Clinical Lead with real scope to develop and influence practice.
Investing in our team members is important to us and we pride ourselves on the support we offer to staff, providing an extensive programme of CPD and leadership opportunities for all our clinicians and Senior Team. Youll have the opportunity to participate in our Leadership Academy, and benefit from excellent promotion prospects and the opportunity to be part of a fantastic multidisciplinary team of staff who are genuinely committed to improving the lives of our service users and carers. We have an excellent range of staff benefits.
Specific requirements in relation to remote working:
You must have access to a computer, secure WiFi link and have a confidential and ergonomically adequate space to work from.
You will be required to have a minimum of 5mb download internet speed at any site you are working from
You must be able to use technology and telephone based systems to carry out supervisory and clinical responsibilities, liaise with service users, address complaints, attend meetings and support the team as required. You must be proficient in the use of internet and email with intermediate level of IT literacy as a minimum.
Your role will be flexible across hours of work as required.
You do not need to be a car driver, but do need to be able to attend meetings, community venues, trust sites if required.
Although primarily working remotely, we may require you to work at or from a different work base or location from time to time, to meet service demands and deliver an operational service. You may be required to attend Trust sites for meetings and training, on occasion.
For further information please contact: Hayley Brookes, Service Manager on 07966 539597 and Maggie Rosairo, Clinical Lead 07813 342725
Job description
Job responsibilities
As the Deputy Clinical Lead for our Digital Team, you will be pivotal in nurturing team cohesion, motivation and enthusiasm for team activity. You will have knowledge and experience of supporting remote workers and the challenges faced by individuals working from home. Wed like to see a real passion for primary care mental health, and the real difference this can make to service users and carers. Its a challenging role, in a challenging environment, but we believe it will provide a talented and ambitious Deputy Clinical Lead with real scope to develop and influence practice.
Investing in our team members is important to us and we pride ourselves on the support we offer to staff, providing an extensive programme of CPD and leadership opportunities for all our clinicians and Senior Team. Youll have the opportunity to participate in our Leadership Academy, and benefit from excellent promotion prospects and the opportunity to be part of a fantastic multidisciplinary team of staff who are genuinely committed to improving the lives of our service users and carers. We have an excellent range of staff benefits.
Specific requirements in relation to remote working:
You must have access to a computer, secure WiFi link and have a confidential and ergonomically adequate space to work from.
You will be required to have a minimum of 5mb download internet speed at any site you are working from
You must be able to use technology and telephone based systems to carry out supervisory and clinical responsibilities, liaise with service users, address complaints, attend meetings and support the team as required. You must be proficient in the use of internet and email with intermediate level of IT literacy as a minimum.
Your role will be flexible across hours of work as required.
You do not need to be a car driver, but do need to be able to attend meetings, community venues, trust sites if required.
Although primarily working remotely, we may require you to work at or from a different work base or location from time to time, to meet service demands and deliver an operational service. You may be required to attend Trust sites for meetings and training, on occasion.
For further information please contact: Hayley Brookes, Service Manager on 07966 539597 and Maggie Rosairo, Clinical Lead 07813 342725
Person Specification
Criteria
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology OR Core mental health profession (e.g. nursing, social work, OT) in addition to CBT training meeting BABCP standards
- Current accreditation as a cognitive-behavioural therapist with the BABCP / current eligibility for BABCP accreditation
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Training at Masters level or above in Health Psychology
- Qualification or accreditation in DIT, IPT, EMDR or couples therapy
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist for a minimum of four years with 2 years at a highly specialist level.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings especially Primary Care, 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Evidence of leadership skills development
- Experience of working with people presenting with Long Term Physical Conditions and of supervising staff working with this population
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained concentration
- Well developed skills in communication, orally and in writing, to clients, careres and families and professionals
- skills in providing consultation
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff
- Ability to identify and employ clinical governance mechanisms for clinical practice
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations
Person Specification
Criteria
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology OR Core mental health profession (e.g. nursing, social work, OT) in addition to CBT training meeting BABCP standards
- Current accreditation as a cognitive-behavioural therapist with the BABCP / current eligibility for BABCP accreditation
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Training at Masters level or above in Health Psychology
- Qualification or accreditation in DIT, IPT, EMDR or couples therapy
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist for a minimum of four years with 2 years at a highly specialist level.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings especially Primary Care, 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Evidence of leadership skills development
- Experience of working with people presenting with Long Term Physical Conditions and of supervising staff working with this population
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained concentration
- Well developed skills in communication, orally and in writing, to clients, careres and families and professionals
- skills in providing consultation
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff
- Ability to identify and employ clinical governance mechanisms for clinical practice
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
