An opportunity has arisen for a full time 1 WTE, 8b Clinical Psychologist within adult community mental health services in Borehamwood based at Civic Offices.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well established team within community mental health. Psychology is highly valued by the team and is seen as a core component of service provision.
The post holder/s will mainly focus on the provision of specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care.
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist Psychological Service to clients with moderate to severe mental health problems in clusters 5 - 17 + 0.
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 work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care.
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.
There are opportunities to engage in service development initiatives, provide teaching/training and consultation across the Trust.
For an informal chat, please contact Dr Vanessa Cowle on 07974 071937.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy including CBT, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans. About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are 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: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. Job description
Job responsibilities
In return, we can offer you: Leadership and management training opportunities 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (up to a maximum of £2,122 per annum) 27-33 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable) One of the UK's best pension schemes Comprehensive health and wellbeing services Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Good honours degree in psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist. Well-developed full-time post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature. Full registration with Health Professions Council Desirable
Related academic qualifications to masters or doctorate level Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Experience and or training in neuropsychological assessment Specific Training in Family/Systemic Interventions, CBT-P, DBT, MBT, EMDR, ASD/ADHD assessment/intervention. 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 of working with moderate to severe mental health problems, including medically unexplained symptoms, physical health problems, and personality difficulties. Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment. Experience working within a multi-disciplinary therapy service. Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of older age psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HPC. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively and well, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Able to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to older people. Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework. Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books. Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi-media materials for formal presentations to large groups. Desirable
Experience of working within MHLT or acute services. Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software. Skilled in appropriate and up to date disengagement techniques. Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Address
Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Herts WD6 1WA Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 367-ACMS-9081
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To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy including CBT, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans. About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are 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: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. Job description
Job responsibilities
In return, we can offer you: Leadership and management training opportunities 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (up to a maximum of £2,122 per annum) 27-33 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable) One of the UK's best pension schemes Comprehensive health and wellbeing services Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Good honours degree in psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist. Well-developed full-time post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature. Full registration with Health Professions Council Desirable
Related academic qualifications to masters or doctorate level Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Experience and or training in neuropsychological assessment Specific Training in Family/Systemic Interventions, CBT-P, DBT, MBT, EMDR, ASD/ADHD assessment/intervention. 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 of working with moderate to severe mental health problems, including medically unexplained symptoms, physical health problems, and personality difficulties. Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment. Experience working within a multi-disciplinary therapy service. Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of older age psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HPC. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively and well, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Able to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to older people. Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework. Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books. Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi-media materials for formal presentations to large groups. Desirable
Experience of working within MHLT or acute services. Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software. Skilled in appropriate and up to date disengagement techniques. Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Address
Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Herts WD6 1WA Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 367-ACMS-9081
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