Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist • Watford Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nClinical/ Counselling Psychologist with Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) in Watford, England, United Kingdom\n\nAn exciting opportunity has arisen to work in a band 7 role as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist within our CAMHS South multidisciplinary team, delivering a high quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families. CAMHS South is a caring, supportive and hard working team which prides itself on working creatively, innovatively and inclusively. We have a number of ongoing projects including working in partnership with young people to re design our clinic room spaces, working to better meet the needs of young people with neurodiversity who are accessing our service, and the development of the intervention offer for families of our young people. Members of the team won the HPFT 2022 and 2023 staff awards for \"inclusion and diversity\" and the team have previously won awards for customer service and working in partnership with our adult services counterparts to improve transitions to adult services. We welcome all new staff to the team with a robust induction process to equip them for the work they will take forwards and promote leadership at all levels within the team. CAMHS South is a part of HPFT CAMHS, who have been at the forefront of national developments in CAMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT. The service is rapidly expanding in line the with evolving needs of young people in Hertfordshire. As the Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist you will be expected to: Act as a senior clinician in the service and provide supervision to junior and pre-qualified clinicians in the service. Provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, facilitating the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the teams to the client. Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. Provide specialist expertise and psychological support to clients, their carers and staff working with the clients. Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s needs, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of the client’s care, including the child/adolescent, their family/carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry and recording. 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 3500 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: Zoe Renner Job title: CAMHS Community Manager Email address: zoe.renner5@nhs.net Telephone number: 01923 470600"}