Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Band 8a

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Radlett; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Foundation Trust is looking for two caring and committed Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to support change within adult mental health wards in the UK. The role involves providing specialist psychological services, assessments, and clinical supervision, while contributing to a trauma-informed approach in care. This position offers competitive salary, comprehensive health services, and a supportive team environment.

Benefits

27 days holiday rising to 33 days

5% high cost allowance supplement

One of the UK's best pension schemes

Comprehensive health and wellbeing services

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Must be a caring and committed individual with relevant qualifications.
• Experience in clinical settings preferred.
• Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist psychology service to adult mental health wards.
• Conduct psychological assessments and interventions.
• Support trauma informed approaches across inpatient services.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Psychological formulation

Clinical supervision

Empathy and compassion

Trauma-informed approaches

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

Overview

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 in a period of skill development with the wider workforce and embedding trauma informed approaches across all wards.

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist psychology service to service users on the adult mental health wards.


• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions.


• Provide clinical supervision, advice and consultation to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment.


• Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, and 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?"


• We are looking for two caring and committed 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in supporting change.


• One role will be based on Owl ward, an 18 bedded male treatment ward, and the other on Robin Ward, an 18 bedded female treatment ward.

We offer

• 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

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.