To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to adults with learning disabilities and service providers and carers within the Community. To provide specialist assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychological services colleagues and other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To use research skills for audit, service development, and research. Contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychological services.
This is a Band 7/8a development/preceptorship post. The post holder will be able to progress from Band 7 to Band 8a once they demonstrate that they meet the competencies specified for Band 8a.
All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct, and Equality and Diversity.
Key Responsibilities:
To hold a clinical workload as a member of Psychological Services and the Specialist Learning Disability Services (SLDS). To provide specialist assessments of service users referred to the SLDS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of psychological information from a variety of sources. To be responsible for the formulation and implementation of therapy or treatments based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods of evidence-based efficacy across the full range of care settings. To provide advice, consultation, and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate supervision and to provide supervision to assistant psychologists and other MDT staff’s psychological or psychotherapeutic work, as appropriate. 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. Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout. Our Values:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be? For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Louisa Rhodes Job title: Clinical Psychologist Email address: louisa.rhodes@nhs.net Telephone number: 07811686846
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To hold a clinical workload as a member of Psychological Services and the Specialist Learning Disability Services (SLDS). To provide specialist assessments of service users referred to the SLDS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of psychological information from a variety of sources. To be responsible for the formulation and implementation of therapy or treatments based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods of evidence-based efficacy across the full range of care settings. To provide advice, consultation, and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate supervision and to provide supervision to assistant psychologists and other MDT staff’s psychological or psychotherapeutic work, as appropriate. 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. Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout. Our Values:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be? For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Louisa Rhodes Job title: Clinical Psychologist Email address: louisa.rhodes@nhs.net Telephone number: 07811686846
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