Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

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Job Opportunity in Community Mental Health
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well established team within community mental health. Psychology is highly valued by the team and is seen as a core component of service provision.
Key Responsibilities
- Focus on the provision of specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care.
- Ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist Psychological Service to clients with moderate to severe mental health problems in clusters 5 – 17 + 0.
- Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists, and other clinical members of the team.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care.
- Utilize research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
- Propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
- Engage in service development initiatives, provide teaching/training and consultation across the Trust.
- Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy including CBT, across the full range of care settings.
- Be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- Provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
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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
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Vanessa Cowle
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: v.cowle@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07974 071937
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