Senior Clinician

Hertfordshire Partnership University Nhs Foundation Trust; Braintree; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Senior Clinician to join the Mid Essex Talking Therapies Team. The role provides specialist support, guidance and supervision to CBT therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to enhance client care.

The post is based at Tekhnicon House in Braintree with on-site work for a minimum of two days per week. It is a full-time position (37.5 hours/week) focusing on supervision, consultancy and service development within

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration.
• Experience supervising qualified and non-qualified clinical staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological care guidance to non-psychological therapists and carers in community mental health, primary care and related agencies.
• Supervise band 7 psychological therapists/trainees and other therapies practitioners as required.
• Collaborate with local mental health service teams and other psychological therapies colleagues.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies.
• Apply research skills for audits, teaching, policy and service development.

Skills

CBT

Clinical supervision

Inter‑agency collaboration

Education

Post-graduate CBT training

BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration

Job description

Job summary

Information: We are seeking to recruit a highly enthusiastic and motivated Senior Clinician.

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.

Base: The Mid Essex Talking Therapies Team is currently based at Tekhnicon House in Braintree and the postholder will be required to be on site for a minimum of 2 days per week.

Hours: this is a full time position - 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

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:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job responsibilities

For a detailed job description and an outline of the main responsibilities, please see the attached Person Specification and Job Description.

Qualifications/Education/Training

Essential

• Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration.
• Experience of supervising qualified and nonqualified clinical staff

Desirable

• Further post-graduate training in CBT models for specific populations, e.g. trauma

Areas of Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• 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.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.