Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist (Maternity Cover)

NHS; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mental health organization as a Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist, providing essential care for individuals with moderate to severe eating disorders. This fixed-term maternity cover role offers a unique opportunity to work in a supportive team, delivering evidence-based psychological interventions and contributing to the service's quality and development.

Qualifications

• Must be registered with BACP/UKCP/BAPCP or HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience in psychological treatment of eating disorders required.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions for eating disorders.
• Supervise and support trainee psychologists and other team members.
• Contribute to the governance of psychological practices within the service.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Eating disorder treatment

Team collaboration

Training and teaching

Communication

Education

Post-graduate training in Psychotherapy

Current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration

Doctoral Level Training in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist (Maternity Cover)

The closing date is 30 June 2025

Community Eating Disorders Service offers specialist outpatient care to those with moderate to severe eating disorder across Hertfordshire. The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for groups and individuals with moderate to severe eating disorders, as well as offering specialist advice and consultation to clients, their families, carers, and mental health professionals in relevant care settings.

The post holder will supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

The post-holder will work closely with psychological therapy colleagues and colleagues within the wider MDT. The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures, and utilize research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the CEDS.

Main duties of the job

The above service delivery includes provision of:

To provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation of clients with moderate to severe eating disorders.

To provide a range of brief, medium and long-term specialist psychological interventions/psychotherapy using at least one of the evidence-based therapy models for the treatment of eating disorders (i.e. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, Family and Systemic Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy).

To supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/ psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to other mental health professionals and carers.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

To utilize research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by CEDS.

To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within the service.

To contribute to training to staff groups, across all sectors of care.

Contributing psychological expertise to assist service development and policy change within the area served by the post.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trustare 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:

Job responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training

• Post-graduate training in Psychotherapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration OR Doctoral Level Training in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology and current HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of further training in Eating Disorder Treatment, e.g post-qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, FPT
• Further post-graduate training in psychological therapy models for specific populations, e.g. trauma

Areas of Experience, Knowledge

• 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
• Ability to apply clinical psychology/psychotherapy in different cultural contexts sensitively and to take action when own or others' behaviour undermine equality and diversity
• Experience of service quality monitoring and service development e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, service development projects, etc.

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

Analytical Skills

• To critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work

Physical Skills

• Ability to travel and work flexibly across different sites in Hertfordshire

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

Address

£48,270 to £54,931 a yearper annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Reference number

367-SS-9422

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