Job overview
Are you a Psychologist or Systemic & Family Practitioner with a knowledge and desire to work with young people and families whilst being part of a supportive team?
Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for you within our East CYPMHS Service for a Full time and Part time Fixed term (secondment if internal) contract. We are an enthusiastic and supportive team who are motivated to support young people and their families with moderate to severe mental health needs within East Hertfordshire. We work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners.
CYPMHS East is a part of HPFT CYPMHS , who have been at the forefront of national developments in CYMPHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT. We pride ourselves on the high quality service we provide as a multi-disciplinary team. The service is rapidly expanding in line the with evolving needs of young people in Hertfordshire.
Main duties of the job
Main duties
- To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues
- Demonstrate effective leadership within the team, including being involved in service development, delivering training and providing clinical supervision.
- To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing high quality mental health services to children and young people across East Hertfordshire.
- To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
- To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached JD and PS for further detailed information.
Be part of our team!
For an informal chat or visit, please contact Jane Forbes-Pepitone/Operational Manager or Tracey Arthey/Team Leader on 01707 364001
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity includingmaintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
- Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
Desirable
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential
- Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
- Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment as per the personal specificationpsychological needs of a complex nature
Desirable
- Specialist training or knowledge in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
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This advert is for Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Systemic & Family Therapist Band 8a with Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Hatfield, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £59,798 - £67,020 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS). The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Contract expires at end of term). The application deadline is 02 Jul 2026.
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