Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

2 months ago


Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our team at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to work with children, young people, and their families, providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment.

Main Responsibilities
  • Assess, plan, and implement programmes of care for individual children and young people, carers, and families with complex behavioural, emotional, psychological, or mental health issues.
  • Undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
  • Be responsible for a defined caseload, selecting and using appropriate interventions to meet care plan objectives and goals, privileging core skills as appropriate.
  • Develop, implement, and manage specialised interventions within the child/young person's context, employing evidence-based practice.
  • 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.
  • Contribute and develop skills in Clinical Governance.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national, and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
About Us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is a leading mental health trust, providing health and social care services to people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk. Our team of over 4,000 members of staff are dedicated to delivering high-quality services that are underpinned by choice, independence, and equality.

Our Values
  • Welcoming
  • Kind
  • Positive
  • Respectful
  • Professional
Person Specification

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 assessment and 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 and 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, including maintaining 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/counselling 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 to large groups.
  • Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.

Desirable:

  • Experience of service quality monitoring, clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
  • Experience of having published in either peer-reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books.
Communication Skills

Essential:

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • 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.
  • Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families.
  • Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members' contributions.
  • Positive problem-solving approach.
Physical Skills

Essential:

  • Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving).
  • IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook.

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