Clinician for the Digital Team

Within this Senior Clinician role you will be providing specialist supervision and caseload management, guidance and training to our qualified and trainee High Intensity Therapists, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners. You will have an active role in the screening of service referrals, digital innovation development, supervision of groups, and contributing to the service risk rota. You will attend service development meetings as appropriate, in liaison with the Service Manager, Deputy Clinical Leads and Countywide Clinical Lead. In addition, you will carry an agreed caseload.,

• The post holder will help to deliver & implement the Talking Therapies programme across Hertfordshire and Mid Essex.
• A key part of the role will be to ensure that Talking Therapies national guidelines are being followed within the service, targets are achieved & that the clinical governance arrangements are in place.
• The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to clients held within the service. This will involve providing psychological assessment & therapy & where appropriate offering advice & consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues & to other professionals, working under supervision within professional guidelines & the overall framework of the team's policies & procedures.
• The post holder will provide specialist supervision, clinical leadership, consultation, guidance and training to High Intensity Workers, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
• They will hold responsibility for the screening of referrals into their team and have a weekly shift on the risk rota to give advice to clinicians as appropriate.
• They will ensure accurate record keeping for assessment & interventions from all clinical staff within the service using the agreed information systems.
• They will ensure the systematic provision of a high quality Psychological therapies service.
• To work with the other senior clinicians to provide relevant information & data to the team & service managers & professional leads as required.
• To work within professional guidelines & exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
• To work with senior colleagues within the service to develop & maintain psychosocial models of care relevant to the client group.
• To provide relevant teaching, training & supervision within the service & where appropriate across the Trust.
• To attend service development meetings as appropriate, in liaison with the Service Manager, Deputy Clinical Leads and Countywide Clinical Leads.
• To suggest & implement where agreed policy changes within the Talking Therapy service.
• To work with senior colleagues to provide input as appropriate around audit, policy & service development & research within the area served by Talking Therapies & the mental health service, & to disseminate this information widely.
• To contribute to the development of digital innovations within Talking Therapies, such as the creation of new webinars
  
  Doctorate level training in Clinical or Counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence, with HPC registration. Must be clearly eligible for BABCP accreditation
• A core mental health professional training (eg nursing, social work, OT) or equivalent
• MSc/Post Graduate Diploma in CBT
• BABCP accredited or clearly eligible for BABCP accreditation, Leadership training.
• Training in one of the other Talking Therapies compliant modalities (IPT, DIT or Couples Counselling)
• Training in the provision of supervision, Significant supervised experience of working in a mental health setting as a qualified Applied psychologist/CBT Therapist
• Substantial Supervised experience of working as a mental health professional
• Significant previous experience of Talking Therapies ways of working
Desirable criteria
• Experience of working in Primary Care Services
• Experience of having worked in a service where agreed targets need to be achieved with a view to demonstrating clinical outcomes
• Experience of working with Long Term Health Conditions in a primary care mental health setting
• Experience of service audit
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Research Experience, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  In line with the National Talking Therapies programme, the NHS Hertfordshire Talking Therapies teams provide evidence based talking therapies for people with mild to moderate mental health problems. The service sits within Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust and we are proud of our Trust CQC rating of 'Outstanding'.
Our services are focused on delivering high quality therapy, being amongst the highest performers in the region. The service finished the year and preceding years with recovery rates exceeding the national target of 50%. We continue to run innovative groups for our clients such as perinatal, older adults and long term conditions. We pride ourselves on the support we offer to staff and provide an extensive programme of CPD for all our clinicians. The NHS Hertfordshire Talking Therapies Service was one of the first Talking Therapy services in the UK to achieve accreditation status with the Accreditation Programme for Psychological Therapies Services (APPTS)., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk..., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional