Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

5 days 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 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) team at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

Key Responsibilities
  • To assess, plan, and implement programs of care for individual children and young people, carers, and families with complex behavioral, emotional, psychological, or mental health issues.
  • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
  • To be responsible for a defined caseload, selecting and using appropriate interventions to meet care plan objectives and goals, privileging core skills as appropriate.
  • To develop, implement, and manage specialized interventions within the child/young person's context, employing evidence-based practice.
  • To evaluate and adjust practices based on feedback.
  • To 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.
  • To carry out assessments and interventions jointly with co-workers from the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
  • To contribute and develop skills in Clinical Governance.
  • To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national, and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
Person Specification
  • Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec.
  • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized 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.
Requirements
  • 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/counseling 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.
About Us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.

We are a family of over 4,000 members of staff providing health and social care for 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.

Our Trust values are embedded throughout our services:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.



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