Clinical Psychologist

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Watford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust is seeking a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the CYPMHS South team in Watford. This Band 8a post offers development toward senior clinical leadership, flexible working and a broad, challenging caseload.

You will hold HCPC registration and provide highly specialist psychological services for children and adolescents, using CAPA and CYP-IAPT frameworks, within a multidisciplinary team across Watford and Borehamwood sites.

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is required or eligible for registration.
• Post-qualification experience in specialist psychological assessment/treatment for children/adolescents.
• Experience with CAPA and CYP-IAPT.
• Experience in supervising or teaching within CAMHS is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan and implement care programs for children/young people with complex mental health needs.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for clients and families.
• Act as care coordinator within multidisciplinary teams and care plans.
• Develop and implement specialised interventions using evidence-based practices.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation and local policies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

IT skills

Education

UK professional registration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Job description

Main area CYPMHS Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 367-CYP-101730-C

Site Peace Children's Centre, Peace Prospect, Watford, WD17 3EW Town Watford Salary £59,798 - £67,020 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS) Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

Band 8a - Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (CYPMHS South)

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified professional to join HPFT CYPMHS South team. The post is designed for a psychologist who is ready to consolidate specialist skills while developing into a senior clinician.

The service operates across two main sites, and the post holder will be expected to work from both locations in line with clinical need, team arrangements and service priorities: Watford Peace Children’s Centre, Peace Prospect, Watford, WD17 3EW, and Borehamwood Civic Offices, Ground Floor, NHS Building, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 9SP. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary professionals and supporting collaborative, multi-agency working.

The post holder will hold HCPC registration and will provide a highly specialist psychological service and delivery of evidence-based service and routine outcome measures monitoring are robust, timely and aligned to the service’s agreed pathways under principles of CAPA model of approach and CYP-IAPT, inclusive of both generic and specific work.

CYPMHS South sits within a wider countywide CYPMHS system of other teams of HPFT, offering strong professional links and peer support across community and specialist teams aligned to Hertfordshire’s geographical quadrants. This post is offered as a development role.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and
consultation work with children, adolescents and their families, with
problems of behavioral, emotional, psychological or mental health issues, providing Core work (as defined by CAPA) and in addition contributing to Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) as agreed with CommunityCYPMHS Managers and Professional leads.

To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services for the quadrant, in line with the
principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.

To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of
families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.

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, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. E verything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibility

• To assess, plan and implement programmes of care for individual
  children and young people, carers and families with complex
  behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children
  and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the
  network of significant relationships.
• To be responsible for a defined caseload selecting and using
  appropriate interventions to meet care plan objectives and goals
  privileging core skills as appropriate.
• To develop, implement and manage specialised interventions within the child/young person’s context, employing evidence based practice.
• To evaluate and adjust practices based on feedback.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/ professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To carry out assessments and interventions jointly with co-workers
  from the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
• To contribute and develop skills in Clinical Governance.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local
  policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and
  mental health

Person specification

Knowledge/Training/Experience

• Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
• Post -doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
• Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
• Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
• Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists

Experience and Knowledge

• Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
• Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity includingmaintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
• Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations tolarge groups
• Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework
• Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
• Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books

Communication Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
• Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members contributions
• Positive problem solving approach

Physical Skills

• Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
• IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.