Consultant Clinical Psychologist, accredited DBT
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Watford
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, accredited DBT
£42618
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Watford
- Part time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 4 days ago, 3 Jan | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
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Full Job Description
- To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological 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 problem
- To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions from within your area of specialty for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across team
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models for individuals, families, or groups as appropriate
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan
- 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 act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
- have a core mental health qualification and registration (such as nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy, PWP or CAP)
- have an interest of working collaboratively with service users (and their families) to develop their skills to improve their ability to tolerate and manage strong emotion
- have some experience of working with service users with mental health needs
- be able to work flexibly as the needs of the service demands
- hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)., Qualification and continuing registration in oneone of the core mental haelt professipons (e.g. psychistric nursing, social work, occupational therapy one of the core mental health professions (e.g.(e.g. (e.g., psychiatric nursing, social work, occupation Occupational therapy). Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession (e.g., NMC, HCPC).
- Completion of DBT Training or willingness and aptitude to train - if the opportunity arises, to undertake the PGDiploma in DBT, Experience of assessment and treatment of clients across a full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups including adults with personality disorders
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments Desirable criteria
- Experience of MDT working, Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts, Own form of transportation to be able to commute between sites, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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, 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 - development and training opportunities
- regular supervision
- 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
- 27 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
- Free Pilates lessons
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing programme
- Special leave for family and personal reasons
- NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
- Employee Assistance Programme Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.
Are you a qualified mental health nurse, OT, social worker? Or are you an experienced PWP, a qualified CAP, CBT therapist or registered with BACP? Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health? We are in a period of skill development with the wider workforce and embedding trauma informed approaches across all teams. We are seeking to recruit a Dialectical Behaviour Therapist (DBT) to join the friendly Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS). This role is based in Watford covering South West Hertfordshire. Ideally, you will already be trained in DBT however full training will be provided as required for the successful candidate. We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.,
In return, we can offer you: