Clinical/ Counselling PsychologistinHemel HempsteadinHemel HempsteadPUBLISHED MON 17 MAR 2025
In this pivotal role, you will lead high-quality psychological assessments, guide fellow professionals in delivering top-notch care, and contribute to evolving our service through innovative research and policy development. You’ll have the opportunity to implement a variety of evidence-based interventions, and collaborate closely with service users, families, and beyond, ensuring every individual receives the care they need to thrive. If you are passionate about making a real impact in mental health care, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work within our community rehabilitation services. This is a permanent, part time (0.6 WTE) role. The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness in the community. The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi- disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery, and individual resilience, and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services. The team deliver evidence-based interventions and use a recovery focused approach, through co-produced plans of care to build resilience and improve wellbeing. Interventions are bespoke to the service user and tailored to meet their individual cultural and social needs.
To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist Psychological Service to clients within the EROS service
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within rehabilitation services.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
About us
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy including CBT, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulations, diagnoses, and treatment plans.
For a full description, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.
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