Assistant Psychologist - Hoddesdon, United Kingdom - Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Hoddesdon, United Kingdom

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Assistant psychologist providing support to the multi disciplinary CAMHS Team within East Hertfordshire. The team covers a wide area in East Herts, from Bishops Stortford to Waltham Cross and Welwyn Garden City. We have three clinics, one in WGC, one in Hoddesdon and one in Bishops Stortford. the post will involve travel to all three bases.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Assistant Psychologist to join our Specialist CAMHS in East Herts. We value multi-disciplinary team working and our service includes psychologists, systemic psychotherapists, nurses, child psychotherapists, social workers and psychiatrists.


The team offers a range of therapeutic interventions (including CBT and family therapy) which you will contribute to, under supervision of a clinical psychologist in the team.

You would work closely with CAMHS clinicians and managers to deliver CYP-IAPT principles and practice within the team including leading on Outcome Measure recording.


We have four community clinic teams as well as a Specialist Crisis Team, Targeted Team for CLA children, Specialist Eating Disorder Team, DBT Service and inpatient unit.

You will join a team of Assistant Psychologists working in these teams, and will be supported by one of our two Band 5 Assistant Psychologists in CAMHS.


We are an innovative and dynamic service, with the Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) being developed within our organisation, and we were first wave for CYP-IAPT.

We have well-established forum to continue to move forward with Participation and Outcome Measure work. We have Lead clinicians for the different professional disciplines, including Consultant Psychologists.

We are keen to continue to develop as a service, and to ensure that staff in our teams feel encouraged in their own continuing professional development.

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 theCare 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.

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:


Our Trust values are:

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?

Assisting the team with outcome measures, transitions to adult mental health. A small carefully selected caseload requiring intervention for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
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