8a Clinical Psychologist team lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in an 8a development role as a Clinical Psychologist within our Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMS, formerly known as CAMHS) multidisciplinary team.
The successful post holder will work within our Enhanced Specialist Pathway which include Forest House General Adolescent Unit (FHAU), Home Treatment Team, DBT and the Eating Disorders Service.
The role involves delivering a high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families within our Enhanced Specialist Pathway (previously Tier 4 services).
You will have HCPC registration and provide a highly specialist child and adolescent service within the Enhanced Specialist pathway , providing both core work and specific/specialist work. HPFT has been at the forefront on national developments in CYPMHS, Service developments.
The Enhanced Specialist services are a dynamic caring, supportive and hard-working team which prides itself in working in collaboratively with young people and stakeholders in service delivery. There are opportunities to take a lead in areas of service delivery and specialist areas of interest., · To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology services to young people within FHAU and across the Enhanced Specialist Pathway working collegially within a multidisciplinary Therapies Team and the wider MDT.
To manage a team of therapists, ensuring adequate skill mix and cover for the services.
Providing support and supervision to your team in line with need and Trust policy.
· To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment at the same time as offering advice and consultation on young people's psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers and parents.
· To provide case management around a subset of young people within FHAU, ensuring safe, secure and joined up care and treatment within hospital, and between hospital, home and involved services / agencies, and to direct and guide members of the Therapy Team to do the same.
·, · The post holder will work autonomously as a member of the FHAU multi-disciplinary team, and the Enhanced Specialist Pathway providing a high standard of service to young people and their families.
· They will work with other professionals, both within the FHAU team, enhanced specialist pathway and beyond.
· They will participate in pre-admission work, onboarding, assessment and treatment of young people and their families, in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological or behavioral problems. They will also work to enable safe transitions of young people back into the community and support teams to prevent admission to tier 4 services.
· The post holder will be responsible for the provision of an appropriate range of highly specialist psychology services within the pathway.
· The post holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to less experienced practitioner psychologists, psychological practitioners and trainees.
· The post holder will provide specialist advice to other professionals and carers.
Clinical Responsibility
· To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of young people admitted to FHAU and the Enhanced Specialist Pathway, 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 young people, 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 young person's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
· To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, employed individually and in synthesis, co-working with other team members/disciplines as appropriate, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· To make highly skilled evaluations and 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, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
· To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
· To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to young people's formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
· To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all young people in the service,
· To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of young people of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual young people and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
· To act as case manager, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client's needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the young person's care, including the young person, their family/carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care. To facilitate the FHAU Therapies Team in the case manager this role.
· To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young people under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both unit - and multidisciplinary care.
· To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the core team around the young person.
· All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity
Leadership and Staff Management Responsibility
· Professional, Clinical, and Safeguarding supervision of practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists, clinical psychology trainees, and psychological practitioners within the FHAU Therapies Team and Enhanced Specialist Pathway.
· Recruitment, appraisal, and performance management of Band 6,7and 8A, Assistant Psychologists, and psychological practitioners as required, in collaboration with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
· To line Manage within the Therapies Team, - some line management may be shared across qualified practitioners to ensure the smooth working of the team.
· Supporting staff by directing employees to services that are available to everyone to help in managing health and wellbeing.
· Be open and approachable as well as proactive in discussing and agreeing a process to monitor an employee's mental and physical health., HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is 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., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and
professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.