# Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practitioner-psychologist-clinical-or-counselling/51b824a9-f46c-4415-9090-9f9b8b1be170 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practitioner-psychologist-clinical-or-counselling/51b824a9-f46c-4415-9090-9f9b8b1be170.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Kingsley Green - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £51,657 - £58,785 per annum, pro rata (inclusinve of 5% HCAS) - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term or secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T09:21:56.376Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Welwyn_Garden_City/Hertfordshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8209556 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8209556?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist to join this well established CYPMHS Community team in East Hertfordshire on a 12 month contract, providing mental health interventions to children and young people and their families with moderate to severe mental health difficulties. CYPMHS East is a supportive multi-disciplinary team with opportunities for learning and development and progression. We are an innovative and dynamic service and our most recent CQC report (May 2019) rated us as ’Outstanding’. Specialist work by Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and other Psychological Therapists is valued by the Trust. Recent developments include transformation of our inpatient services with New Care Models, development of a DBT team, we are a Trailblazer site for the Mental Health Support Teams in schools and we are keen to promote quality improvements and innovative ideas, which improves care and the Service User’s experience. In addition to the four quadrant clinic teams, our service includes a Specialist Eating Disorder Team, Specialist CAMHS Crisis Team, Targeted Team for looked after children, an adolescent inpatient unit (Forest House), and Home Treatment and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy teams. We are a multi-disciplinary team made up of a range of professionals including child psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, specialised social workers, child and adolescent psychotherapists, systemic family therapists and specialist nurses. ### Main duties of the job As the Clinical Psychologist you will be expected to: - Ensure the systematic provision of a specialist clinical / counselling psychology service, across all sectors of care, providing both core work and specialist work (as defined by CAPA) including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CYPMHS clinics. - Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers. - Provide clinical/professional supervision to pre-qualified psychologists within the quadrant MDT and propose and implement policy and service development, undertake research, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and to contribute to the training of clinical/counselling psychologists and others What we can offer: - A coaching network where trained coaches throughout the Trust are matched with staff of all disciplines to provide a powerful development opportunity - Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers - Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike - saving on tax and insurance included - Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing - Gym discounts, including Nuffield Health and David Lloyd. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical Responsibility - To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the quadrant MDT, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care - To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s complex mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings - To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions including CBT for individuals, carers, families and groups, employed individually and in synthesis, co-working with other team members/disciplines as appropriate, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses - To make skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. This evidence-based approach includes monitoring outcomes, modifying and adapting interventions drawn from a range of theoretical models - To exercise autonomous professional responsibility within HCPC guidelines for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with referrers and others involved with the care on a regular basis - To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, facilitating the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the teams to the client - To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group - To provide specialist expertise and psychological support to clients, their carers and staff working with the clients - To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management - To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s needs, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of the client’s care, including the child/adolescent, their family/carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care - To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry and recording - To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Post-graduate doctorate in clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist - Full registration with Health Professions Council under the Clinical or Counselling modality - Related academic qualifications to masters or doctorate level - Experience of independent administration and interpretation in cognitive assessment - Experience of research, service development and audit - Substantial pre-qualification clinical experience under supervision to enable the post holder to take full clinical responsibility for their caseload **Desirable** - Chartered status with the British Psychological Society - Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice ### Experience **Essential** - 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse - 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 - Experience working within a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency collaboration - Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology including highly developed knowledge of developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, child and adolescent mental - Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg multiple mental health and/or physical health problems) - Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill and experience in an evidence based therapeutic intervention - Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC - Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively and well, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS ## Documents - [refer a friend (pdf, 160.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2083) - [staff benefits (pdf, 888.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2165) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 600.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10516585) - [guidance on ai usage in job applications (pdf, 55.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2305) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.