Job Summary
We are inviting applications for a psychological therapist from a core professional background (e.g. CAP’s, psychiatric nurses, social workers, OT’s) to join our Personality Disorder Pathway in the South West of Hertfordshire. The post‑holder will be based in Watford and Borehamwood.
Main Duties
* To have good working relationships with multi‑disciplinary colleagues in the community mental health team setting
* To maintain close working relationships with psychological therapy colleagues both locally and quadrant‑wide
* To promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in the local Hub and beyond and with GPs and other stakeholders in the service
* To work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non‑psychological therapy colleagues
* To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedure
* To utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
* To provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment including a range of evidence‑based group and individual psychological interventions
* To provide specialist support, guidance and consultation relevant to personality disorders on the clients' psychological care to other multi‑disciplinary professionals
Job Responsibilities
* Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 clients' care.
* Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's 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.
* Be responsible for implementing psychological interventions from within the area of specialty for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining the psychological formulation according to the evolving clinical scenario.
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
* Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
Person Specification
Essential
* Qualification and continuing registration in one of the core mental health professions such as psychiatric nursing, clinical or counselling psychology, clinical associate in psychology, social work or occupational therapy.
* Continuing registration with the body overseeing practice of the core mental health profession (e.g., NMC or HCPC).
* Intensive training in DBT or a commitment to complete DBT intensive training and to achieve DBT accreditation when available, e.g., through the PG Diploma in DBT.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, adult mental health and in‑patient settings.
* Experience of working with complex presentations including adults with personality disorders and maintaining professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Knowledge and understanding of trauma‑informed care.
* Experience of multi‑disciplinary team working and inter‑agency collaboration.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi‑media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks.
* Awareness of child and adult safeguarding procedures.
* Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments.
* Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with severe and enduring mental health problems including personality issues.
* Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
* Experience of facilitating groups.
* Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
Desirable
* Experience of service development/project management.
* Experience of service quality monitoring, e.g., clinical audit, evaluative research.
Job Details
* Band: 6
* Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year (per annum, pro rata)
* Contract: Permanent
* Working pattern: Part‑time
* Reference number: 367‑ACMS‑9784
* Job locations: Colne House, Upton Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 0JP
About Us
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 4,000 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, and medium and low secure learning disability services.
Employer Details
* Employer name: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
* Address: Colne House, Upton Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 0JP
* Website: https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/
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