Clinical/Counselling PsychologistBand 8a

Main area

CAMHS Practitioner

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5pm)

Job ref

367-CYP-101662

Site

CAMHS Targeted Team , Kingsley Green

Town

Radlett

Salary

£59,798 - £67,020 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

08/10/2026 23:59

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

Are you a psychologist with a knowledge and desire to work with vulnerable children who are supported by the local authority or are looked after by the Local Authority?

Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust?

The post-holder will be a member of the award winning Community CAMHS Targeted Team who offer care to children and young people presenting with emotional and behavioural problems where they may have a history of complex attachment difficulties due to abuse, neglect, trauma which are causing emotional distress and impacting on their mental health. The children we support always have a social worker who is actively supporting the family and who may be on the edge of care. Looked after by the local authority or children who have been adopted.

CAMHS Targeted Team is a welcoming, supportive multi-disciplinary team who are committed to providing innovative and high quality care. We offer a variety of evidence based specialist therapeutic interventions such as : Trauma focused CBT, work informed by Dyadic developmental psychotherapy, play therapy, systemically informed reflective network interventions and we use our knowledge of trauma and attachment to support those receiving the service whether this is direct or indirect work for the child/carers and or the networks. We work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners.

Main duties of the job

Main duties

The successful candidate will:

• conduct assessments and provide therapeutic interventions, in line with NICE guidance and excellent clinical practice, for children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences and may have complex trauma and other mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• There will be significant working with partner agencies such as Hertfordshire Children's service due to the nature of our team
• be part of a senior leadership team
• be part of an excellent multi-disciplinary team
• be expected to work holistically with your service users, taking a care coordination function as required
• This role would involve offering supervision to a highly skilled team
• Enhancing the teams knowledge base around trauma and mental health where children have been exposed to ACES
• Support with service development
• have oversight of professional development in team

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire NHS Partnership 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, 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.

We can offer you:

• leadership and management training
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job description

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers
• The post-holder will offer Specialist Trauma and attachment based therapeutic Intervention
• To be part of leadership team guiding team in clinical practice ensuring team is functioning to meet clinical demand.
• To be part of a leadership team supporting operational functions for a team with multiple stakeholders.
• To work effectively as a fully integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team, including taking an active part in MDT meetings
• To provide clinical/professional supervision to other team members within the MDT
• To provide placements to trainee clinical/counselling psychologists
• To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust policies and procedures
• To propose and implement policy and to support with service development undertake research, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and to contribute to the training of clinical/counselling psychologists and other
• To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical / counselling psychology service to clients of the Specialist CAMHS Targeted multidisciplinary team, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work (as defined by CAPA) and also contributing to Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example Specialist provision of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT)

Be part of our team!

For an informal chat or visit, please contact Bianca Bernsen

Person specificationKnowledge/Training/ExperienceEssential criteria

• Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
• Post -doctoral training in one or...