Full job descriptionClinical/Counselling PsychologistBand 8bMain area

Psychology
Grade

Band 8b
Contract

Permanent
Hours
*Full time
*Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref

367-ACMS-101290-B
Site

Civic offices, Borehamwood, WD6 1WA
Town

Borehamwood
Salary

£64,337 - £74,415 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)
Salary period

Yearly
Closing

17/09/2026 23:59
Values Based ScreenerAt Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a ’completion code’ by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.


Job overviewThis 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.
The post holder/s will mainly focus on the provision of specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care.
To 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.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
There are opportunity to engage in service development initiatives, provide teaching/training and consultation across the Trust.
Main duties of the jobTo 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.

To 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.

To 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.

To 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.

To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
Working for our organisationHertfordshire 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesIn return, we can offer you:
· leadership and management training opportunities
· 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (up to a maximum of £2,122 per annum)
· 27-33 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
· One of the UK’s best pension schemes
· Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
Person specificationKNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCEEssential criteria*Good honours degree in psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
*Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist.
*Significant full-time post registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
*Full registration with Health Professions Council
*Related academic qualifications to masters or doctorate level.
*Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Experience in neuropsychological assessment
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGEEssential criteria*Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. Typically, this would involve vast experience and significantly at a highly specialist level, or its equivalent demonstrated through CV and interview.
*Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems, including: medically unexplained symptoms, physical health problems, and personality difficulties.
*Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
*Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment.
*Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology trainee(s).
*Experience working within a multidisciplinary therapy service.
*Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of older age psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
*Doctoral level...