Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: 0.75wte (28 hours a week)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-9510
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Simpson Centre, Kelling Hospital
- Town
- High Kelling
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Per Annum, Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/08/2025
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
We are a friendly multidisciplinary team working with adults who have a learning disability, based at Kelling Hospital, covering North Norfolk community.
You will be working alongside another qualified Psychologist based in the North, and part of the wider team of Psychologists and assistants in the Norfolk LD Service. At HPFT we sit within the Learning Disability & Forensics division, which means you will be part of an even wider team of Psychologists too.
You will be clinically supervised by the Lead Psychologist and line managed by the North Team Manager. We sit in the same office as the North Social Care Team, to maximise MDT working and positive outcomes for our clients.
The post is advertised as 28 hours a week, worked over 4 or 5 days, to include Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays. We have an agile working environment, which includes traveling to see clients, working in the office/s and working from home if you wish. All IT equipment to enable your working is provided. Having access to your own car is essential.
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service to adults with learning disabilities that are eligible for psychology intervention within the learning disabilities team and their families/carer. To provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on service user psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To use research skills for audit, service development and research. Contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychology service provision.
The post holder will liaise with the NCHC, ICB and the Norfolk County Council. In addition the post holder will liaise with other Statutory, Voluntary and Private sector agencies involved and responsible for service user’s care.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users 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, semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
Please see attached JD and PS for more details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or approved equivalent
- Registered as a clinical psychologist with Health Professional council
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist
- Experience of working with a range of people, across the range of clinical severity in community and residential settings.
- Experience of working in team with multiple disciplines and managing complex inter-disciplinary situations.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in managing and leading service development projects.
- Experience in providing psychological consultation to other service providers in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors.
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the psychological theory and practice in relation to difficult to treat groups (e.g. people with challenging behaviour, personality disorder, dual diagnoses or additional disabilities.)
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and analysis within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced level knowledge and skill in the theory and practice of at least two recognised approaches to psychological practice.
- Significant knowledge of and skills in working with people with very challenging behaviour including providing and promoting appropriate support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Skills in providing psychological consultation to commissioner and other service providers in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, including presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of practice governance and to support and maintain own and service standards of clinical practice.
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act, 1995).
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
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
- Jo Gravells
- Job title
- Health Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01263 676111
- Additional information
Dr Corrina Willmoth, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Lead Psychologist for Adults with Learning Disabilities
T: 01953 450800
M: 07985 692288
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