# Senior Clinician

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Kingsley Green
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Cognitive behavioural therapist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09T08:50:59.379Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Braintree/Hertfordshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Clinician/Senior_Clinician-v8344580
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8344580?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Information: We are seeking to recruit a highly enthusiastic and motivated Senior Clinician.

An opportunity has arisen to join the Mid Essex Talking Therapies Team as a Senior Clinician. This is a unique and highly valued role within the team that works alongside our Senior Team, our CBT therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to offer specialist support, guidance and supervision.

Base: The Mid Essex Talking Therapies Team is currenlty based at Tekhnicon House in Braintree and the postholder will be required to be on site for a minimum of 2 days per week

Hours: this is a full time position - 37.5 hours per week

### Main duties of the job

- The post-holder will provide specialist support, guidance and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers within community mental health services, primary care and other agencies.
- To provide supervision to band 7 psychological therapists / trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and other psychological therapies practitioners as required.
- The post-holder will work closely with local mental health service teams, as well as a range of other psychological therapy colleagues within the service setting.
- The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- The post-holder will utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed job description and an outline of the main responsibilities, please see the attached Person Specification and Job Description.

### 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

### AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

**Essential**

- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a variety of care settings
- Ability and experience of representing psychological therapies within the context of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Ability and skills to provide consultation to other professional and non -professional groups
- Ability and skills to identify, promote and provide appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Abilities to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi -media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Abilities to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks including Safeguarding
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments in eating disorders
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Experience of service quality monitoring and service development e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, service development projects, etc.

### QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

**Essential**

- Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration.
- Experience of supervising qualified and nonqualified clinical staff

**Desirable**

- Further post-graduate training in CBT models for specific populations, e.g. trauma

## Documents

- [jdps (pdf, 808.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10669186)
- [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)
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