Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Radlett; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking committed 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join their inpatient psychology service. You will offer specialist assessments and psychological interventions within a supportive multidisciplinary team. The role offers competitive salary, leadership training opportunities, and the ability to affect change in mental health care through trauma informed approaches. Both full-time and part-time options are available.

Benefits

Leadership training opportunities

Generous holiday allowance

NHS Car Lease Scheme

Comprehensive health services

Qualifications

• Experience working as a qualified practitioner in mental health settings.
• Current full registration with HCPC.
• Training in risk assessment and management.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision and consultation to colleagues.
• Support with and lead the embedding of Trauma Informed Approaches.

Skills

Experience with severe mental illness

Knowledge of CBT

Ability to provide clinical supervision

Ability to work autonomously

Education

Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology

Job description

Job Summary

Here at HPFT we have a long history of delivering outstanding care, and we are taking our inpatient psychological therapies service to the next level. Through an extensive expansion of our psychology provision, we are embedding trauma informed approaches across all wards. This is an exciting time of change.

We are looking for caring and committed 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to work alongside the multi‑disciplinary team in supporting change. If you have the relevant skills, are energetic, imaginative and, above all, care passionately about working with individuals and their families towards recovery, then we want to hear from you!

The role is based in the innovative and purpose‑built Kingfisher Court, Radlett and/or Aston Ward, Lister Hospital, Stevenage. We will consider preference for base at application or interview stages as well as part‑time or full‑time hours.

You will form part of a vibrant, passionate, and supportive inpatient psychology service that is well established and highly valued across our inpatient services.

For the right candidates we would consider a developmental period from Band 7 to Band 8a.

Location

Kingfisher Court, Radlett, WD7 9HQ

Aston Ward, Lister Hospital, Stevenage

Benefits

• Leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 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
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist psychology service to service users on adult mental health wards.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision, advice and consultation to colleagues and other non‑professional carers on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment.
• Provide compassionate care based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, underpinned by principles of recovery and knowledge of trauma informed approaches.
• Support the development and roll‑out of Trauma Informed Approaches across HPFT inpatient services as we change the question people ask from "What's wrong with you?" to "What's happened to you?"
• Work within the MDT, forming part of the leadership team for the ward and ensuring psychologically informed ways of working are embedded across all systems.
• Skilling up the wider workforce to make psychologically informed interventions everybody's business.
• Support with and lead the embedding of Trauma Informed Approaches across all systems.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• 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.
• Experience working as a qualified practitioner with clients with severe mental illness within a mental health setting.
• Experience of working within acute or crisis services.
• Current full registration with HCPC.
• Training in risk assessment and management.
• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, maintaining professionalism in highly emotive and distressing situations.
• Knowledge of whole life span development and its impact on emotional, psychological and mental well‑being.
• Knowledge of evidence‑based interventions such as CBT, Systemic Therapy or Family Interventions.
• Ability to exercise full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within multidisciplinary care.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and multivariate data analysis.
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working and inter‑agency collaboration.
• Ability to provide consultation to professional and non‑professional groups.
• Ability to teach and train others using a variety of materials suitable for professional settings.
• Awareness of safeguarding procedures and current NHS initiatives.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and national agenda in adult mental health and long‑term conditions such as personality disorder.
• Experience of service quality monitoring (clinical audit, evaluative research).
• Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

Desirable

• Post‑qualification training in assessment and intervention models such as CBT, Systemic Therapy or Family Interventions.
• Experience supervising qualified clinical staff from varied backgrounds including HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists.
• Experience of service development or project management.

Other Information

Salary: £57,888 to £64,880 per annum (Pro rata, 5% HCAS included)

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: 8a

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full‑time or Part‑time

Reference number: 367-A UC-9930

Employer: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Registration: Current UK professional registration required. Disclosure and Barring Service check required.

Eligibility for Skilled Worker sponsorship: Applications are welcome and will be considered alongside other applications. For further information please visit UK Visas and Immigration website.

Employer website: https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/

Equal Opportunities

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