Clinical / Counselling Psychologist / CBT Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist in Adult Community Mental Health services within HPFT, which has been rated an 'Outstanding' provider by CQC. You will work as part of a quadrant wide team providing a service across out of our Hemel Hempstead hub.

You will be expected to work with clients presenting with a wide range of difficulties and diagnoses and will receive high quality supervision to support them in their role. You will join a well-established, supportive team of psychological therapists who offer assessment and a range of different psychological interventions within a multi-disciplinary community mental health team.

There is a wealth of experience and knowledge of different therapeutic approaches within the team and regular opportunities for peer reflection and supervision. You will also be provided with CPD opportunities and supported in their professional development., As the Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist you will be expected to:

• Provide psychological assessment and treatment to clients with

severe and enduring mental health disorders within the service

• Provide specialist support, guidance and consultation on clients'

psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers within community mental health services, primary care and other agencies

• Work closely with the local and quadrant-wide psychologist

teams, as well as a range of other psychological therapy colleagues within the service setting

• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the

overall framework of the team's policies and procedures

• Utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service

development and research within the area served by the team/service,
• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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


• 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 based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings


• Responsible for implementing a range of 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


• 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


• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans


• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan


• Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group


• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management


• Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care, Available Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for calls and to arrange informal visits.
  
  Doctoral/Masters level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS and current registration with HCPC Or A registered qualification (e.g. in nursing, social work, occupational therapy) and further postgraduate qualification training in evidence based psychological therapies, including CBT, and significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner, with BABCP registration and eligibility for BABCP accreditation


• Professional qualification degree level, which should include knowledge and application of research methodology


Desirable criteria


• Additional specialist knowledge or training in psychological therapies including CBT, Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS


Physical Skills

Essential criteria


• IT Skills; including the use of Microsoft Office and Outlook, entering data onto electronic patient records, Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings, including at least six months clinical experience working in adult mental health


• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life span's presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse


• Knowledge of whole life span development and the impact on emotional, psychological and mental well -being


• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one evidence based psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, CAT, systemic family psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy) relevant to the treatment of adults with complex problems and their families


• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology


• Experience of multi -disciplinary team working and inter -agency collaboration


• Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non -professional groups


• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi -media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings


• Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks


• Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures


• Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments


• Knowledge of legislation and the national agenda in relation to Adult Mental Health


• Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with mental health problems


• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team


• Experience of working in a community mental health setting


Desirable criteria


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


• Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision


• Experience of working in a community mental health setting, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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?, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional