Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-8544
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingfisher Court, Kingsley Green, Harper Lane, Radlett, WD7 9HQ
- Town
- Radlett
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum + 5% of basic salary (min £1,192 max £2,011)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
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 on 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.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Through an extensive expansion of our psychology provision we are in a period of skill development with the wider workforce and embedding trauma informed approaches across all wards. This is an exciting time of change.
The role is based in the innovative and purpose-built Kingfisher Court, Radlett. You will form part of a vibrant, passionate, and supportive inpatient psychology service. You will be based on Swift ward, an 18 bedded acute assessment unit. Psychology is highly valued and sought after in this unit.
We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date - Apply now.
Band 7 to Band 8a development post will be considered.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
• Provide a specialist psychology service to service users on the adult mental health wards.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision, advice and consultation to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment.
• Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, and underpinned by principles of recovery and knowledge of trauma informed approaches.
• Support the development and roll out of Trauma Informed Approaches across HPFT inpatient services as we change the question people ask from "What’s wrong with you?" to "What’s happened to you?"
Working for our organisation
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.
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!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to Acute Services 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, 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 client formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory with a focus on Trauma Informed Approaches.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
Academic / Educational
Essential criteria
- Good honours degree in psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Extensive 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
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Experience and or training in neuropsychological assessment
- Specific Training in Family/Systemic Interventions, CBT-P, DBT, MBT, EMDR, ASD/ADHD assessment/intervention.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems, including: psychosis and personality difficulties.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment.
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary therapy service.
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HPC
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within crisis or acute services
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s).
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi-media materials for formal presentations to large groups.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sharon Ackers
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07870 365250
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