Full job descriptionMHST Clinical PsychologistBand 7Main area

MHST South Clinical Psychologist
Grade

Band 7
Contract

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

367-CYP-101581
Site

MHST South - Gracewood Academy
Town

Potters Bar
Salary

£51,657 - £58,785 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
Salary period

Yearly
Closing

27/09/2026 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 overviewBand 7 - Clinical Psychologist (MHST South)
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join HPFT MHST South team. The post is designed for a psychologist who is ready to consolidate specialist skills while developing into a senior clinician.
The role will operate across MHST South including bases in 3Rivers, Hertsmere and Watford. The post holder will be expected to work from all locations in line with clinical need, team arrangements and service priorities.
The MHST South Clinical Psychologist will be expected to work as a member of the multi-disciplinary school’s Mental Health Support Team (MHST); assisting in the provision of a high quality service to children, young people and their families experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The role requires skills in assessing, planning, organising, reviewing and supervision.
The post holder should have completed or willing to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision course. This can be an EMHP supervision course, low intensity supervision course, or CYP-PT Supervision course.
The post holder will utilise their skills and knowledge of CBT informed interventions and child and adolescent mental health practice, to supervise the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), Senior Wellbeing Practitioners (SWPs), Senior Practitioners, and assistant psychologists in the team.
Main duties of the job*To triage and provide psychological assessment and interventions for children and young people in an educational setting
*If not already completed, the post holder will be expected to attend university to complete a Postgraduate Certification in Supervision
*Undertake and record accurate assessments of risk and operate clear risk management processes in line with locally agreed procedures including the safeguarding protocols of the educational setting and HPFT Safeguarding policy.
*To provide specialist expertise and psychological support to clients, their carers and staff working with the clients
*To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
*To provide consultation as required to other professionals (such as teachers and family workers) around mental health issues in children and young people in schools.
*To enhance emotional wellbeing and to promote or build resilience in children and young people through educational workshops, assemblies, and PSHE lessons.
Working for our organisationHertfordshire NHS Partnership 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, 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 responsibilitiesFor full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.
Person specificationKnowledge/Training/ExperienceEssential criteria*Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology or approved equivalent.
*Training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
*Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs
*Registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Experience and KnowledgeEssential criteria*Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
*Experience of working with mild to moderate mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
*Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
*Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
*Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
*Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
*Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
*Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations to large groups
*Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework
*Already completed or willing to complete a postgraduate certificate in supervision; either a low intensity supervision course or Psychological Therapies supervision course
Desirable criteria*Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
*Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Communication SkillsEssential criteria*Excellent...