# Senior Psychological Therapist/CBT Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-psychological-therapistcbt-therapist/05820652-fec5-4fe6-ae5d-89739fccad31 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-psychological-therapistcbt-therapist/05820652-fec5-4fe6-ae5d-89739fccad31.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Hatfield - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £59,798 - £67,020 per annum pro rata (5% HCAS included) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T15:22:24.621Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Hemel_Hempstead/Hertfordshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8063817 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8063817?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Previous applicants need not apply An interesting opportunity has arisen in our  Primary Care Mental Health Service in Hemel Hempstead in West Hertfordshire  for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or CBT therapist to provide psychological interventions in primary care. This is a full-time position and will involve working alongside a peer senior psychological therapist. The post holder will be at the forefront in reviewing and leading the psychological provision offered within primary care to meet the needs of the local population. Psychological Therapists undertake an integral role supporting the wider MDT and are highly regarded within the Trust. You will play an important role in the day to day running of local psychology provision, providing supervision to qualified and trainee psychological therapists and practitioners, overseeing psychology referrals and waiting list, and providing support and consultation to MDT colleagues. Please can you be clear in your application form on how you meet the essential qualification criteria. This is an office based role in Hemel Hempstead. ### 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 the local and quadrant-wide psychological therapy 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 - To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the teams, 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 service user s, family members and others involved in the service user’s care - To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user ’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. - To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the designated quadrant lead. - To participate in relevant special interest groups within the profession across the Trust and nationally as appropriate, to keep up with current developments. - To contribute to service development projects within own service area and other relevant agencies as required. This can involve contributing to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service operational policies or other organizational issues, by initiating and using one’s professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS. ## Job Details Previous applicants need not apply An interesting opportunity has arisen in our Primary Care Mental Health Service in Hemel Hempstead in West Hertfordshire for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or CBT therapist to provide psychological interventions in primary care. This is a full-time position and will involve working alongside a peer senior psychological therapist. The post holder will be at the forefront in reviewing and leading the psychological provision offered within primary care to meet the needs of the local population. Psychological Therapists undertake an integral role supporting the wider MDT and are highly regarded within the Trust. You will play an important role in the day to day running of local psychology provision, providing supervision to qualified and trainee psychological therapists and practitioners, overseeing psychology referrals and waiting list, and providing support and consultation to MDT colleagues. Please can you be clear in your application form on how you meet the essential qualification criteria. This is an office based role in Hemel Hempstead. ## Job Description 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 the local and quadrant-wide psychological therapy 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. ## Responsibilities To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the teams, 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 service user s, family members and others involved in the service user’s care To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user ’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the designated quadrant lead. To participate in relevant special interest groups within the profession across the Trust and nationally as appropriate, to keep up with current developments. To contribute to service development projects within own service area and other relevant agencies as required. This can involve contributing to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service operational policies or other organizational issues, by initiating and using one’s professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS. ## 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 or other psychological therapy qualification with substantial experience. - For Clinical/Counselling psychologists: Full registration with Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist or full registrations with BABCP or with appropriate professional body. **Desirable** - Where relevant, post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT. ### Experience **Essential** - Post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with service users with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature. - Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adults of working age with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. - Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems including assessing and managing risk. - Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical/counseling psychologist or registered therapist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative. - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service user’s psychological care and treatment. - Experience of professional consultation, teaching, training and/or supervision, including supervision of clinical psychology/or other trainee(s). **Desirable** - Formal supervision training - Experience of delivering group-based interventions ## 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 and person spec 8a (pdf, 608.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10354358) - [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.