Overview
A full time (1.0 WTE) Clinical/Counselling Psychologist position has arisen within adult community mental health services in North Hertfordshire. Part‑time hours can be considered.
Psychology is highly valued by the team and is seen as a core component of service provision. The post holder will take on a senior role within the Psychological therapies team, in consultation with the Clinical Lead. The role focuses on providing specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care, and on ensuring the systematic provision of a high‑quality specialist Psychological Service to clients with moderate to severe mental health problems (clusters 5‑17 + 0). The incumbent will supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists, and other clinical members who provide psychologically based care and treatment. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research – proposing and implementing policy changes within the area served by the team/service. Opportunities exist to engage in service development initiatives, provide teaching/training and consultation across the Trust, and manage CPD and further training in core therapeutic modalities.
Responsibilities
Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team, using appropriate 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.
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, employing methods of proven efficacy including CBT across the full range of care settings.
Be responsible for implementing a range of evidence‑based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, employing methods of proven efficacy and adjusting & refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
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.
Provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
Qualifications
- 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) accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist.
- Significant 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.
- Related academic qualifications to masters or doctorate level.
- Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Experience in neuropsychological assessment and specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity; ideally at a highly specialist level, as demonstrated through CV and interview.
- 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 of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s).
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary 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.
- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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