Highly Specialised Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are recruiting for an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist to come join our friendly team.

To Support the Consultant Psychological Therapist in leading thepsychological services and care within the team alongside other MDT leads.To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist PsychologicalService to clients with eating disorders and their families.To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapyprovided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinicalmembers of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.To manage the operational delivery of Psychological services within theeating disorders services as agreed by the Consultant Psychological therapist and the senior leadership team.To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exerciseresponsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within eating disorder services.To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development andresearch.To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by theteam/service.

Main duties of the job

To Support the Consultant Psychological Therapist in leading the psychological services and care within the team alongside other MDT leads.

To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist Psychological Service to clients with eating disorders and their families.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

To manage the operational delivery of Psychological services within the eating disorders services as agreed with the Consultant Psychological therapist and the senior leadership team.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within eating disorder services.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

About us

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will provide evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment including a range of group and individual psychological interventions, and supervise others doing similar as part of our multidisciplinary team.

You will provide very highly specialist support, guidance, and consultation on clients psychological care to other multi-disciplinary professionals.

You will work with the leadership team to ensure our care pathways are delivered seamlessly and offer excellent care and outcomes for those who need our support.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

You will utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

You will support trainees and other staff to develop their skills and deliver high quality services.

For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • For practitioner Psychologists: Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) Full registration with Health Professions Council Or for CBT therapists Registration with BABCP as a CBT Therapist with additional specialist training in CBT ED

Desirable


  • Additional specialist training in NICE recommended intervention for Eating Disorders - particularly SSCM, Mantra, or FPT

Experience

Essential


  • Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity.
  • Experience operational management of psychological therapies services
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s).
  • Experience working within a multi disciplinary therapy service.

Desirable


  • Experience and or training in neuropsychological assessment
  • Experience of working with eating disorders in a specialist setting

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rosanne House

Parkway

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6HG

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

367-PLAN-8233#J-18808-Ljbffr
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