Senior Psychological Therapist/CBT Therapist/Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 two 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 teams policies and procedures.

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

To be a member of the teams Leadership and Management.

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.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology and registration with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist
• Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration.
• 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

Desirable

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

Experience

Essential

• Experience of supervising qualified and non-qualified clinical staff
• 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.

Diversity

Essential

• Ability to apply clinical psychology/psychotherapy in different cultural contexts sensitively and to take action when own or others' behaviour undermine equality and diversity

General

Essential

• Ability to assess and identify own developmental needs and takes responsibility for personal development
• IT Skills; including the use of Microsoft Office and Outlook, entering data onto electronic patient records
• Ability to travel and work flexibly across different sites in Hertfordshire

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health Problems and or eating disorders

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rosanne House

Parkway

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6UB

Employer's website

https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)