Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-101307
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ware (New Road) and Welwyn (Rosanne House)
- Town
- Ware and Welwyn
- Salary
- £33,677 - £40,996 per annum, pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 5
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
The NHS Talking Therapies Service in East and South East Hertfordshire, covering Welwyn, Ware, Bishops Stortford and surrounding towns and villages, is looking to employ an Assistant Psychologist.
The Assistant Psychologist plays a central role in ensuring our service is of the best quality, with the best outcomes for our service users.
Hertfordshire was one of the original 11 Pathfinder sites for the development of Talking Therapies Services, commencing in 2007/8 and has since developed through 1st and 2nd wave expansion sites to provide a well resourced and innovative Talking Therapies service across the whole of the county. Our Trust has been awarded ‘Outstanding’ status by the Care quality Commission and our Talking Therapies Service is APPS accredited.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Assistant Psychologist in ESE Talking Therapies is to support the work of staff in the Primary Care Service, including providing psychological assessment and interventions under the supervision of a qualified Psychologist or CBT therapist. To assist in audit and data collection and the development of research and innovation projects. To work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified Psychologist and within the overall framework of HPFT’s policies and procedures.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for the post for a detailed job description and main responisibilities
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential criteria
- An honours degree or higher in Psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice or research design and analysis
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of work with people with mental health problems.
- Understanding of and compliance with relevant professional standards and practice.
- Experience of using computers for data analysis, especially Excel and SPSS for Windows.
- High standard of report writing.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with common mental health problems.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a primary care context.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services.
- Experience and knowledge of undertaking audit in clinical services.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yasmine Nassif
- Job title
- Deputy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07867349339
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