Clinical Psychologist

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST NORTH WEST HERTFORDSHIRE – Full-time (1.0 WTE) post for recruitment at Band 7-8a. Applications to this post as a Band 7 – Band 8a Preceptorship will also be accepted.

The psychologists in our well established Older People's Service are valued members of our specialist community multi-disciplinary teams, including a well-established Early Memory Diagnosis and Support Service.

This post involves delivering a range of assessments and interventions, including neuropsychological diagnostic assessment, cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapies and positive behavioural support for behaviours that challenge in dementia. There will be opportunities to contribute to service developments and to develop your clinical leadership skills.

Applicants should be registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC or be in a position to register in the near future, if they complete their DClinPsy training in 2024.

We welcome applications from newly or recently qualified psychologists and will consider applications for a Band 7 - 8a Development Post for applicants with experience and interest in working with older people. We welcome applications from non-UK trained psychologists working towards fulfilling HCPC requirements to qualify as a clinical psychologist in the UK and who need experience in working with older people.

The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments, psychological treatments and evidence-based interventions for older people, their families and carers.

The post holder is required to work as a member of SMHTOP community teams and ward staff, providing support, development, supervision and guidance to other team members, as well as a similar consultation service to professionals within community health services, primary care and other agencies.

This is a full-time Band 7-8a (1.0 WTE) post, which may be recruited to as a development post (Band 7 – Band 8a) whereby the post holder will progress from Band 7 to Band 8a once they demonstrate that they meet the competencies specified for Band 8a.

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

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 3500 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.

Our Trust Values Are

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:

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?

Then please read on…

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Francesca Payne Job title: Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead (NW MHSOP) Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01442 275628