A Senior Assistant Psychologist for the Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirement Team provides low-intensity (usually CBT-informed) interventions for service users who have been court ordered to take up mental health treatment as part of their community sentence. We work with low mood, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, sleep problems, and other symptoms of psychological distress.
Our work is all about being adaptable, responsive, and caring in working with a population that is often overlooked. We are passionate about being inclusive and are constantly looking for ways to improve our diversity and our accessibility, both in how we increase our referrals from under-served populations and in how we offer our interventions in different ways to accommodate different need.
You will assist with presentations to different teams to help them to understand our work, why they would refer a service user to us, and how to complete a referral
You will manage the admin of referrals, including passing them on for screening to the Clinical Lead, completing screening assessments, liaising with various court-related personnel and probation staff, and tracking the data associated with the referrals
You will assess if service users are likely to benefit from our service and support them in completing risk assessments
You will complete 12-week programmes of one-to-one interventions based on the specific needs and goals of each service user with our more complex service users
You will support and facilitate our Emotional Coping Skills Group.
You will audit our data and prepare for service evaluations
You will complete Risk Assessments for all service users given a PMHTR
You will assist in court screenings, including completing assessments on the day and making decisions as to who can access a PMHTR
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 4000 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, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values Are
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Jess McCloskey Job title: Clinical Lead, Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: jessica.mccloskey@nhs.net Telephone number: 07816 118611
I would be happy to arrange a short video conversation to discuss the post following an offer of interview, if you would like - just email me in advance and we can find a good time
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