Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9585
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Health And Wellbeing Centre
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 Per annum, Pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Psychological Therapist (Personality Disorders)
Band 6
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.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.co
Job overview
Are you a qualified mental health nurse, OT or 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?
Through an extensive expansion of our psychology provision we are in a period of skill development with the wider workforce and embedding trauma informed approaches across all wards.
We are seeking to recruit a Dialectical Behaviour Therapists (DBT) to join the friendly Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS). The role based in Hemel Hempstead covering North 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.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- have a core mental health qualification and registration (including nursing, social work, occupational therapy)
- 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).
In return, we can offer you:
- 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Qualification and continuing registration* in one of the core mental health professions
- Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession (e.g. NMC, HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Additional training in approaches to PD (e.g. DBT or SCM)
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Diversity
Essential criteria
- Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Own form of transportation to be able to commute between sites
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
- Dr Sarah Tarzi
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist and DBT therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07979 946372
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