Senior Clinician Digital Team

Within this Senior Clinician role you will be providing specialist supervision and caseload management, guidance and training to our qualified and trainee High Intensity Therapists, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners. You will have an active role in the screening of service referrals, digital innovation development, supervision of groups, and contributing to the service risk rota. You will attend service development meetings as appropriate, in liaison with the Service Manager, Deputy Clinical Leads and Countywide Clinical Lead. In addition, you will carry an agreed caseload., + The post holder will help to deliver & implement the Talking Therapies programme across Hertfordshire and Mid Essex.
+ A key part of the role will be to ensure that Talking Therapies national guidelines are being followed within the service, targets are achieved & that the clinical governance arrangements are in place.
+ The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to clients held within the service. This will involve providing psychological assessment & therapy & where appropriate offering advice & consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues & to other professionals, working under supervision within professional guidelines & the overall framework of the team's policies & procedures.
+ The post holder will provide specialist supervision, clinical leadership, consultation, guidance and training to High Intensity Workers, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
+ They will hold responsibility for the screening of referrals into their team and have a weekly shift on the risk rota to give advice to clinicians as appropriate.
+ They will ensure accurate record keeping for assessment & interventions from all clinical staff within the service using the agreed information systems.
+ They will ensure the systematic provision of a high quality Psychological therapies service.
+ To work with the other senior clinicians to provide relevant information & data to the team & service managers & professional leads as required.
+ To work within professional guidelines & exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
+ To work with senior colleagues within the service to develop & maintain psychosocial models of care relevant to the client group.
+ To provide relevant teaching, training & supervision within the service & where appropriate across the Trust.
+ To attend service development meetings as appropriate, in liaison with the Service Manager, Deputy Clinical Leads and Countywide Clinical Leads.
+ To suggest & implement where agreed policy changes within the Talking Therapy service.
+ To work with senior colleagues to provide input as appropriate around audit, policy & service development & research within the area served by Talking Therapies & the mental health service, & to disseminate this information widely.
+ To contribute to the development of digital innovations within Talking Therapies, such as the creation of new webinars, 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

In line with the National Talking Therapies programme, the NHS Hertfordshire Talking Therapies teams provide evidence based talking therapies for people with mild to moderate mental health problems. The service sits within Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust and we are proud of our Trust CQC rating of 'Outstanding'.
Our services are focused on delivering high quality therapy, being amongst the highest performers in the region. The service finished the year and preceding years with recovery rates exceeding the national target of 50%. We continue to run innovative groups for our clients such as perinatal, older adults and long term conditions. We pride ourselves on the support we offer to staff and provide an extensive programme of CPD for all our clinicians.
The NHS Hertfordshire Talking Therapies Service was one of the first Talking Therapy services in the UK to achieve accreditation status with the Accreditation Programme for Psychological Therapies Services (APPTS).
We are pleased to advertise this permanent Senior Clinician position within our Digital Team, 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:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust
Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk..., 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.