Associate Practitioner/Assistant Psychologist

1 month ago


United Kingdom Wales Medicines Strategy Group Full time

Employer Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Beech Ward, Kingsley Green, Radlett, Hertfordshire. 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. This post is equally split between an Associate Practitioner nursing role on Beech Low Secure Ward and an Assistant Psychologist role within the Adult Mental Health Forensic Psychology Service (AFPS) covering both Beech Low Secure Unit and the Community Forensic Team.
To be responsible in discharging duties and carrying out clinical nursing procedures/techniques within agreed competencies, including; devising care plans, assisting with physical health care, promote the development of evidence based clinical processes etc.
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinical related administration, development of audit and research projects, and the delivery of teaching and training programmes.
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:
Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? This post is equally split between an Associate Practitioner nursing role on Beech Low Secure Ward and an Assistant Psychologist role within the Adult Mental Health Forensic Psychology Service (AFPS) covering both Beech Low Secure Ward and the Community Forensic Team.
Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care (FdSc) or a willingness to undertake this
Psychology.Honours Degree (minimum 2:1) in Psychology, accredited by the British Psychological Society.
Training in risk assessment measures, e.g. Minimum of 3 years experience as a Health Care Assistant – working in a Health & Social Care setting/or a similar setting.
Experience of working across a range of care settings including out-patient, in-patient, community and residential care settings
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 so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
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.
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