An opportunity has arisen to join the Mid Essex Talking Therapies Team as a Senior Clinician. This is a unique and highly valued role within the team that works alongside our Senior Team, our CBT therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to offer specialist support, guidance and supervision.,
- The post-holder will provide specialist support, guidance and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers within community mental health services, primary care and other agencies.
- To provide supervision to band 7 psychological therapists / trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and other psychological therapies practitioners as required.
- The post-holder will work closely with local mental health service teams, as well as a range of other psychological therapy colleagues within the service setting.
- The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
- The post-holder will utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration.
- Experience of supervising qualified and nonqualified clinical staff
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate training in CBT models for specific populations, e.g. trauma, Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a variety of care settings
- Ability and experience of representing psychological therapies within the context of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Ability and skills to provide consultation to other professional and non -professional groups
- Ability and skills to identify, promote and provide appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Abilities to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi -media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Abilities to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks including Safeguarding
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments in eating disorders
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Experience of service quality monitoring and service development e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, service development projects, etc., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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, Please note that HPFT are currently going through a procurement process and are contracted to provide Mid Essex Talking Therapies until 31st March 2027 after which time, there will be a new provider of the service.