Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist

Integrated Care System; St Albans; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in St Albans is seeking a part-time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or qualified CBT Therapist. You will deliver specialist services for adult survivors of sexual trauma, supervise Trainee Psychologists, and contribute to service development. This role offers further career progression opportunities and is ideal for those with experience in complex trauma presentations. An appropriate doctoral qualification and registration with HCPC are required.

Qualifications

• Ability to maintain professionalism with emotive and distressing problems.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary team is essential.
• Direct experience using psychological interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist services for adult survivors of sexual abuse.
• Supervise and support Trainee Psychologists on placement.
• Contribute to service developments within the clinical team.

Skills

Complex assessment

Therapeutic interventions

Effective communication

Education

Doctoral level or recent qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent

Registered with HCPC

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist

The closing date is 11 August 2025

Part-time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or qualified CBT Therapist post for recruitment at Band 7 in Hertfordshire.

We welcome applications from Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or qualified CBT Therapist with an interest and/experience of working with service users who have experienced sexual trauma, their carers and supporting staff members. We offer opportunity for the successful candidate to do further development work for career progression and opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The clinical team in our newly established HPFT Adult Sexual Trauma Service (HASTS) have an interest in evidence based practice for complex trauma presentations such as TF-CBT and EMDR. They are valued members of our HPFT teams and local voluntary and community services.

This post involves delivering a range of staff consultations and training to teams as well as assessments and interventions (group and individual) with service users. There will be opportunities to contribute to service developments and to develop your clinical leadership skills.

The post holder will participate in supervision from a senior therapist and provide support and guidance to other team members, as well as support development of consultation service to professionals within community services, primary care and other agencies.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare 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 responsibilities

To provide a high- quality specialist service for adult victim/survivors of sexual abuse and assault with complex presentations.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and support the governance of psychological practice within the HASTS team.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by Trainee Psychologists on placement in the team and offer support to other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

To undertake specialised clinical work within HASTS with external agencies, which will include liaison and discussions of the psychological assessment, direct and indirect intervention, supervision, training and consultancy. To provide specialist knowledge and consultation to staff where appropriate and relevant.

Where required, to contribute specialist psychological skills and advice with regards to the design and implementation of strategic planning, organisational and service developments, staff training and support initiatives within the service and Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and to other professional organizations.

To utilise research and training skills and knowledge to support in auditing, policy and service development, research activity and other programmes within the service.

Person Specification

TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION

• Doctoral level or recent qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent.
• Registered as either a clinical/counselling psychologist or Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Additional post graduate training or qualification in a specific psychological therapy or Neuropsychology).

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of specialist assessment and therapy with service users across a range of care settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups with presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of working within children and young people service in a clinical role.
• Direct experience of using therapy with psychological interventions
• Experience of supervision and/or research or teaching or training other collegues
• Experience of the application of psychological services in different diverse cultural contexts of service users

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Skills in the use of complex assessment, therapy or intervention.
• Well developed skills in communicating effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
• Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychological services.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of capacity and other legislation in relation to the client group.

OTHER

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experienceper annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)