Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and compassionate Band 8a Counselling/Clinical Psychologist/Senior CBT Therapist to join an established Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in Hertfordshire for a period of 6 months to provide cover for maternity leave.
The ACMHS is a secondary care service providing specialist treatment to people experience severe and complex mental health difficulties such as complex trauma, personality disorder, psychosis, OCD and complex anxiety and depression. Psychological therapists are embedded in the local community teams and are well regarded members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
- To support the delivery of psychological therapies within adult community mental health services, by providing expert assessment and treatment.
- Experience across a range of therapeutic models is essential including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other models such as Compassion Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, EMDR, Systemic Therapy and Mindfulness.
- To provide supervision and management to newly qualified or pre-qualified psychology staff within the ACMHS.
- To provide consultation and training to the wider MDT
- To promote, monitor and prioritise equality of access and services offered to the local population
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
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!
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
- You may be required to work from community sites across East Hertfordshire, and thus own transportation is beneficial.
- You will be responsible for offering liaison and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team, liaising with colleagues within the community mental health team as well as other local services, including Enhanced Primary mental Health Service, Talking Therapies and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. Liaise with other agencies on matters related to the psychological needs and issues relevant to the service and its users
- You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedures
- You will be required to commute across sites and attend home visits, as well as offer some remote therapy options where necessary.
- You will be responsible for offering liaison and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team, and colleagues within other NHS and non-NHS teams.
- You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedures
For a more detailed Job and person specification please read the attached before applying
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
- You may be required to work from community sites across East Hertfordshire, and thus own transportation is beneficial.
- You will be responsible for offering liaison and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team, liaising with colleagues within the community mental health team as well as other local services, including Enhanced Primary mental Health Service, Talking Therapies and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. Liaise with other agencies on matters related to the psychological needs and issues relevant to the service and its users
- You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedures
- You will be required to commute across sites and attend home visits, as well as offer some remote therapy options where necessary.
- You will be responsible for offering liaison and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team, and colleagues within other NHS and non-NHS teams.
- You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedures
For a more detailed Job and person specification please read the attached before applying
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate 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 OR: Senior CBT Therapist: Postgraduate qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g., psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, counselling psychology, medicine, social work and occupational therapy, a recognised qualification in cognitive behaviour therapy or to have substantial other relevant experience and with demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field. As well as a Diploma and / or M.Sc. in CBT leading to demonstrable eligibility for accreditation with the BABCP
- post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Full registration with Healthcare Professions Council
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity.
- 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) and relevant clinical experience with these client groups
- Experience of delivering evidence-based therapies for historical and complex trauma
- Experience of establishing and co-facilitating group therapy programs
- Further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist / CBT therapist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment
- 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 nonprofessional 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
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multimedia materials for formal presentations to large groups
- Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of wordprocessing, e-mail, and internet software
Desirable
- Experience of working with women who are pregnant or up to 2 years postnatal, who have, or are at risk of a range of complex mental health problems (including emotionally unstable personality disorder and complex trauma)
- An understanding of transitional issues relevant to the perinatal period including adjustment, relational and identity
- Experience of risk assessment and management to include perinatal factors
- Experience of working with anxiety, depression, trauma and more complex presentations such as EUPD as they present in the perinatal period
- Training and expertise in the theory and application of traumafocused interventions, such as EMDR or trauma-focused CBT, and/or models of loss and grief
- Experience of working in IAPT, MDT and/or child and family settings
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s)
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary therapy service
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to perinatal populations
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate 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 OR: Senior CBT Therapist: Postgraduate qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g., psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, counselling psychology, medicine, social work and occupational therapy, a recognised qualification in cognitive behaviour therapy or to have substantial other relevant experience and with demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field. As well as a Diploma and / or M.Sc. in CBT leading to demonstrable eligibility for accreditation with the BABCP
- post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Full registration with Healthcare Professions Council
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity.
- 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) and relevant clinical experience with these client groups
- Experience of delivering evidence-based therapies for historical and complex trauma
- Experience of establishing and co-facilitating group therapy programs
- Further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist / CBT therapist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment
- 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 nonprofessional 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
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multimedia materials for formal presentations to large groups
- Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of wordprocessing, e-mail, and internet software
Desirable
- Experience of working with women who are pregnant or up to 2 years postnatal, who have, or are at risk of a range of complex mental health problems (including emotionally unstable personality disorder and complex trauma)
- An understanding of transitional issues relevant to the perinatal period including adjustment, relational and identity
- Experience of risk assessment and management to include perinatal factors
- Experience of working with anxiety, depression, trauma and more complex presentations such as EUPD as they present in the perinatal period
- Training and expertise in the theory and application of traumafocused interventions, such as EMDR or trauma-focused CBT, and/or models of loss and grief
- Experience of working in IAPT, MDT and/or child and family settings
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s)
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary therapy service
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to perinatal populations
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
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).
