Clinical/Counselling Psychologist 8a

Job summary

Are you a Psychologist with a knowledge and desire to work with young people and families whilst being part of a supportive team?

Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for part-time Clinical or Counselling Psychologist 3 days per week within our North CYPMHS Service. We are an enthusiastic and supportive team who are motivated to support young people and their families with moderate to severe mental health needs within North Hertfordshire. We work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners.

CYPMHS North is a part of HPFT CYPMHS , who have been at the forefront of national developments in CAMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT. We pride ourselves on the high quality service we provide as a multi-disciplinary team. The service is rapidly expanding in line the with evolving needs of young people in Hertfordshire.

For candidates who do not yet meet all Band 8a criteria, appointment at Band 7 may be considered, with a structured developmental programme to support progression to Band 8a.

Main duties of the job

Main duties

• To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues
• Demonstrate effective leadership within the team, including being involved in service development, delivering training and providing clinical supervision.
• To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing high quality mental health services to children and young people across North Hertfordshire.
• To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client's care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration.

About us

Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission

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, 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.

We can offer you:

• leadership and management training
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached JD and PS for further detailed information.

Be part of our team!

For an informal chat or visit, please contact Lee Revelles, Lisa Shostak or Ella Beesen on 01438 792600

Person Specification

Knowledge/Training/Experience

Essential

• Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
• Post -doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
• Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature

Desirable

• Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
• Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
• 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 includingmaintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 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 teaching, training and/or supervision
• Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
• Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations tolarge groups
• Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework

Desirable

• Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
• 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CYPMHS North, Level 2, Saffron Ground

Ditchmore Lane

Stevenage

SG1 3LJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)