Senior ClinicianBand 8a

Main area

Senior Clinician

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00)

Job ref

367-ACMS-101689

Site

Tekhnicon House, Springwood Drive, Braintree, CM7 2YN

Town

Braintree

Salary

£57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

23/10/2026 08:00

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

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.

Person specificationQUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAININGEssential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

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

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGEEssential criteria

• 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.

Please note, we do not charge fees for job applications, recruitment processes, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. Please see the Trust careers vacancy webpage and Trac as the only authorised routes for recruitment communications, applications and verification of job offers.

Employer certification / accreditation badgesApplicant 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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if we receive a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application promptly.

Documents to download

• JDPS (PDF, 808.5KB)
• Refer a Friend (PDF, 160.5KB)
• Staff Benefits (PDF, 888.5KB)
• Guidance on AI usage in job applications (PDF, 55.0KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Sue Flower

Job title

Operational Manager

Email address

Telephone number

Additional information

Peter Bailey Deputy Clinical Lead

Please note that HPFT are currently going through a procurement process and are contracted to provide Mid Essex Talking Therapies until 31st March 2027 after which time, there will be a new provider of the service.