Senior Clinician

We are recruiting for a part time Band 8a Senior Clinician for the ESE Talking Therapies Team, which will be based in Oxford House. Ideally the successful candidate will work on Friday's as part of their week but flexible working will be considered.,

• You will help to deliver & implement the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme across Hertfordshire
• A key part of the role will be to ensure that IAPT national guidelines are being followed within the service, targets are achieved & that the clinical governance arrangements are in place
• You will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to clients held within the service. This will involve providing psychological assessment & therapy & where appropriate offering advice & consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues & to other professionals, working under supervision within professional guidelines & the overall framework of the team's policies & procedures
• You will lead on our long term health conditions integrated care pilot that is part of our IAPT service. This is a varied role that includes a range of promotional activities, attending meetings, giving presentations and ensuring timely data collection within the teams. Suitable candidates will have a specialist interest in working with Long Term Conditions and experience of providing psychological interventions for people with Long Term Conditions.
• You will provide specialist supervision, clinical leadership, consultation, guidance and training to High Intensity Workers & Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners. They will hold responsibility for the screening of referrals into their team.
  
  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