Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 367-SS-9673
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Welwyn Garden City or Cambridge and across the East of England Region
- Town
- Welwyn Garden City/Cambridge
- Salary
- £66,653 - £77,094 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist & Clinical Lead
Band 8b
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time 0.7, 8b Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist within adult eating disorder services.
This is a new post created as part of the East of England Provider Collaborative. The Trust is working with CPFT and the Provider Collaborative on the establishment of a new Adult Eating Disorder Admission Avoidance Service called A-EDIT.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a newly established team within adult eating disorders. Psychology is highly valued by the team and is seen as a core component of service provision.
The Provider Collaborative Alternative to Admission (A2A) pathway is being recommissioned with CPFT and HPFT leading on the implementation of the new model referred to as the Adult Eating Disorder Intensive Team (A-EDIT). This will supersede the current regional pilot projects in the A2A pathway (which were the Intensive Community Support (ICT) and Virtual Intensive Support (VIT) models).
The post holder will lead the clinical work of the newly formed A-EDIT jointly with a psychiatrist.
This role will require the postholder to travel within the East of England Region on a daily basis to support service users and staff.
Main duties of the job
A-EDIT will have
- One joint team delivering both virtual and face-to-face interventions, flexed to meet the preference and formulation of the patient and the capacity of the hubs.
- All staff will be contracted to CPFT or HPFT but will be located across the region and will be expected to travel.
- The intention is to use clinical space across the region on an ad hoc basis, and there will be bases in Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
Responsibilities of the Role:
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To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist Psychological Service to clients within the East of England Alternative to Admission Pathway (A-EDIT) working closely with the Professional Lead and Consultant Psychiatrist.
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To lead on the clinical practice of A-EDIT together with the Psychiatrist
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To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment or to ensure with the Professional Lead that they have appropriate professional supervision and support.
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To supervise and support case formulations and consultation to other professionals within A-EDIT and external stakeholders.
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To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within A-EDIT.
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.
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...https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In return, we can offer you:
· leadership and management training opportunities
· 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (up to a maximum of £2,122 per annum)
· 27-33 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
· Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctorate in counselling/clinical/Health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Significant post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs within the field of Eating Disorders.
- Full registration with Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in eating disorders or a related speciality including NICE recommended treatments such as CBT-ED, MANTRA, FPT, etc.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity, particularly eating disorders, trauma, physical health difficulties.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe eating disorders, including: medically unexplained symptoms, physical health problems and personality difficulties.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical/counselling psychology trainee(s) and other psychologists/psychological therapists
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary therapy service
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to plan own workload; and coordinate with other relevant staff in the delivery of clinical service and to meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern which requires regular revision of plans.
- Able to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to people with mental health difficulties particularly eating disorders.
- Experience of working within a multi cultural framework.
- Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of wordprocessing, e-mail, and internet software.
- Skilled in appropriate and up to date disengagement techniques
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information to clients, their families, caress and other professional colleagues effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to challenging information
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
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 Christian Koebbel
- Job title
- Consultant Counselling Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974407737
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