Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist Band 8a

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 23 January 2026

HPFT has a long history of delivering outstanding care, and we are taking our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTT) to the next level, through embedding Trauma Informed Approaches within teams.

We meet the needs of individuals living in Hertfordshire experiencing a mental health crisis, providing an MDT approach to understand their difficulties and implementing brief interventions to support the crisis to resolve.

This role will also involve in-reaching to a newly established Crisis House that forms part of the wider CRHTT provision within the South-East Team.
This is an exciting time of service expansion.

We are looking for a caring and committed HCPC registered Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who enjoys working flexibly as part of an MDT to support psychological ways of thinking. Experience of working within crisis services would be beneficial, but not essential.

If you have the skills, are energetic, imaginative, care passionately about working with individuals and their families, and enjoy influencing team culture through Trauma Informed Approaches then we want to hear from you!

The role is based in the South-East CRHTT, Cygnet House, Ware. Psychology is highly valued and sought after in this team. You will form part of a supportive psychology crisis service whose broad spread of roles gives real opportunity for progression within the service.

We don't want you to miss out so - Apply now!

The successful candidate will:

• Provide a specialist psychology service to service users who are currently in a mental health crisis and are being supported by the South-East Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, including those accessing the newly established Crisis House.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions, in both individual and group formats.
• Provide clinical supervision to the Assistant Psychologists embedded within the team along with advice and consultation to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment.
• Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, and underpinned by principles of recovery and knowledge of trauma-informed ways of working.
• Support the development and roll out of Trauma Informed Approaches across HPFT crisis services as we change the question people ask from "What's wrong with you?" to "What's happened to you?"
• Provide a leadership role within the service to support psychologically informed practice across the team.

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 4,000 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:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

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? If so, then apply!

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