Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health/Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Bank - VISA Sponsorship not supported on the Bank
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 367-Bank-Therapist-B7
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG
- Town
- Welwyn Garden City
- Salary
- £47,810 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Bank, Band 7, Psychological Therapist, Welwyn - SW1509
Band 7
Values Based Screener
At 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 overview
We are currently seeking an experienced Psychological Therapist, at Band 7 to work via a Bank Contract, for our Adult Community Services, based in Welwyn. You will be joining our Temporary Staffing Team within HPFT - Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment to clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder within the service, and will provide specialist support, guidance and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers within community mental health services, primary care and other agencies
You will work closely with the local and quadrant-wide psychological therapy teams, as well as a range of other psychological therapy colleagues within the service setting and act as a resource on positive risk-taking and the management of people with personality disorders, for staff within the community hubs
The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures and will utilise research skills, on a regular basis, for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
HPFT provides services for service users with mental health, learning disability and children’s and adolescent mental health problems.
All applicants need to hold a Professional Registration and can evidence this.
Main duties of the job
· The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment including a range of evidence-based groups and individual psychological interventions
· The post-holder will provide specialist support, guidance and consultation relevant to personality disorders in clients’ psychological care to other multi-disciplinary professionals
· The post-holder will work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non-psychological therapy colleagues
· The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures
· The post-holder will utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
Working for our organisation
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. Feedback from our staff about working for the Trust is very positive and, in the NHS national staff survey, we regularly see a high percentage of staff saying their role makes a difference to our service users and that they would recommend the Trust as a place to work. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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
· 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 based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
· Be responsible for implementing psychological interventions from within your area of specialty for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining the psychological formulation according to the evolving clinical scenario.
· 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
· Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
Please see JD attached for further information and responsibilities required
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Qualification and continuing registration* in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical or counselling psychology, social social work or occupational therapy.
- *Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession e.g. NMC or HCPC.
- Completion of DBT Intensive Training and commitment to achieve DBT Accreditation when this becomes available. Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession, e.g. NMC or HCPC.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, adult mental health and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups including adults with personality disorders. Experience across the whole life span 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 multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
- Experience of working in a community mental health setting
PHYSICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Car Driver
- IT Skills; including the use of Microsoft Office and Outlook, entering data onto electronic patient records
PHYSICAL EFFORT
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel and work flexibly across different sites in Hertfordshire
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- KAYLEIGH HAMMOND
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971639506
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