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<h2>Introduction</h2>
	
		
			<p>Are you an experienced and innovative HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist&nbsp;looking to take the next step in your career?&nbsp;This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a&nbsp;multi-disciplinary psychological therapies team which covers both male and female adult acute inpatient wards (23 beds in total) at Potters Bar Clinic.</p>

<p>You will be joining us at an exciting time as we are developing a new pathway for young adults who present with complex trauma, and you will have a key role in contributing to this service development.&nbsp;There are opportunities for further training relevant to the therapeutic work. </p>

<p>You&nbsp;will provide a clinical service of specialist psychology assessments and interventions to a number of adult service users with&nbsp;acute mental health needs&nbsp;on the ward. You will also provide a specialist clinical perspective in relation to other service users with whom you might not be directly involved. Potters Bar uses a formulation driven and trauma informed model of care.</p>
<p>Reporting directly to the Lead Psychologist, you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and risk assessments. You will also facilitate staff reflective practice sessions and be requested to design and deliver training.</p>
<p>As a Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service user’s caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Your Psychologist career at&nbsp;Potters Bar Clinic&nbsp;will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills throughout your time with us. Your professional growth is valued and there are numerous career development opportunities on offer. There is an extensive range of courses designed to help you grow and succeed in your career.</p>
<p>It's a career that brings pride and fulfilment, a true representation of what delivering great healthcare should feel like.</p>
For more information, please contact Sigal Spigel, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection">[email&nbsp;protected]</a> ; T: 01707 858 585
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<strong>Please refer to the job spec when applying. The job spec gives detailed information regarding the job requirements in terms of hours and skills.</strong>
<p><strong>As a Psychologist you will be:</strong></p>
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    <li>Working autonomously to provide a specialist psychology service to patients as agreed by Consultant Psychiatrist, Therapies Lead, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and in discussion with wider MDT.</li>
    <li>Undertaking specialist assessments.</li>
    <li>Providing specialist interventions according to formulations based on an appropriate conceptual framework, NICE guidelines, evidence from research, and in accordance with the wider MDT formulation and interventions.</li>
    <li>Be involved in running therapeutic groups on the ward as agreed.</li>
    <li>Continually monitor risk of all patients for whom there is direct contact, or regarding which the post holder receives relevant information, ensure acute risk is managed, liaise with MDT (and in particular responsible psychiatrist) regarding risk, and update electronic record including risk assessment as required.</li>
    <li>Ensuring that all clinical work is adequately recoded in the electronic patient record.</li>
    <li>Attending ward rounds (and other MDT meetings), case conferences, CPAs as required, and provide reports in advance for these in accordance with local procedures.</li>
    <li>Preparing clinical; reports as required, e.g. assessment reports, discharge summaries.</li>
    <li>Liaising with internal and external colleagues as required</li>
    <li>Completing all recording and reporting tasks associated with clinical work.</li>
    <li>Facilitating ‘reflective practice’ sessions for the ward-based staff as agreed within the psychological therapies team and in discussion with wider MDT.&nbsp;Please note that the reflective practice sessions take place at 7:30am and 7:30pm to cover day and night ward-based staff. There is flexibility in the working arrangements to accommodate these working patterns.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;<strong>To be successful in this role, you'll need:</strong></p>
<ul type="disc">
    <li>Have BPS recognised psychology degrees</li>
    <li>Be HCPC registered</li>
    <li>Have understanding of evidence-based psychological practice</li>
    <li>Have experience of applying psychological knowledge to a psychiatric setting</li>
    <li>Experience in inpatient work preferable but not essential</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Where you will be working:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Location:&nbsp;</strong>190 Barnet Road,&nbsp;Potters Bar,&nbsp;Hertfordshire,&nbsp;EN6 2SE</p>
<p>Join the team at Potters Bar Clinic providing care for young people and adults with acute mental health needs and personality disorders in an established 24-hour care environment. The CAMHS Tier 4 Low Secure services are for young people aged 13–18.<br>
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Potters Bar Clinic is located in a residential area, only one minute drive from the M25 and a short bus ride from Potters Bar Train Station, with a bus stop right outside, making it an easy commute for most.</p>
<p><strong>What you will get:</strong></p>
<ul>
    <li>Annual salary of £53,000, pro rata considered 4 days a week</li>
    <li>The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!</li>
    <li>Free meals and parking</li>
    <li>Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.</li>
    <li>24 hour GP Service to ensure you are the best you can be</li>
    <li>Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.</li>
    <li>Pension contribution to secure your future.</li>
    <li>Life Assurance for added peace of mind.</li>
    <li>Enhanced Maternity Package&nbsp;so you can truly enjoy this special time.</li>
</ul>
<p>There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.</p>
<p>A full job description and personal specification is available upon request.</p>
<p><strong>About your next employer:</strong></p>

<p>You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities &amp; Autism, Children &amp; Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.</p>
<p><em>Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.</em></p>

		
	
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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>A great opportunity has arisen for a creative and experienced arts psychotherapist (Music ) to work within the Arts Therapies Team in the Specialist Learning Disability Community Team.</p>
<p>As part of our team in Hertfordshire, you'll have the chance to work alongside other talented arts therapists, helping to provide exceptional care and support to our service users. We're committed to helping you develop your professional knowledge and skills, with plenty of opportunities for CPD. And with our excellent rating from the CQC on our last inspection, you can be sure you'll be part of a team that's making a real difference. Plus, you'll receive fantastic ongoing support with a range of supervisions, including operational, professional, and clinical.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>*You will have developed a strong and compassionate alliance with adults with a learning disability, and mental health difficulties and understand the important role of families and paid carers.</p> <p>*You will understand how to provide innovative evidenced-based individual and group music therapy assessment and treatment programs, within various community settings across West Herts.</p> <p>You will be a highly motivated communicator, with the team's shared passion for achieving the best outcomes for our service users.  </p> <p>You will provide clinical supervision and support to other arts therapists and students when required.</p> <p>The post may require working across a number of locations in West Hertfordshire, and will require some travel across the county.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>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.</p> <p>Our family of over 4000 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.</p> <p>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:</p> <p>Our Trust values are:</p> <p><strong>Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.</strong></p> <p>These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!</p> <p>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?</p> <p>Then please read on...</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>14 November 2025</p>

  
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      <p>Band 7</p>
  
  

  
  
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      £50,008 to £56,908 a year
      
        per annum, pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)
      
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  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
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  <p>367-LD&amp;F-9860</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Colne House</p>
      <p>21 Upton Rd</p>
      <p>Watford</p>
            <p>WD18 0JL</p>
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          QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Good Honours degree in relevant subject and relevant work experience</li>
        
        <li>M.A. Arts psychotherapies(art drama or music)</li>
        
        <li>Significant postqualifying professional experience and a demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to best practice and evidence based practice.</li>
        
        <li>Registered with Health and Care Professions council (HCPC)</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working as a therapist with services users who have experienced a variety of mental health problems including psychotic symptoms.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working as a therapist with service users with complex a learning disability including those with autism, and personality disorders</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working as a therapist role with services users with profound and severe learning disabilities who may have limited communication skills and challenging behaviours</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with carers and families as therapist</li>
        
        <li>Substantial experience of own personal therapy.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of keyworking and care co-ordination of clients</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of continued professional development</li>
        
        <li>Experience of supervising Arts therapies Students/trainees /liaising with university courses</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Experience of working consistently within a multidisciplinary team especially in community and in patient settings as therapist .</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Demonstrates skills required of providing individual and group therapeutic interventions in own field including: assessment and treatment and discharge planning.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work in various settings inpatient and outpatient work in community settings with a range of complex cases.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge and skills in how to improve learning through work based and evidence based approach</li>
        
        <li>Demonstrates how to adapt skills in own field from work based learning to support people with a complex Learning disability and challenging behaviour, and or autism and/ or range of mental health problems including: a degree of personality disorder, a history of psychosis.</li>
        
        <li>Demonstrates understanding of organisational and self management skills including management of complex systems and personnel.</li>
        
        <li>Demonstrates clear use of different types of supervision and how it has benefitted work role</li>
        
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          COMMUNICATION SKILLS
        
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        <li>Ability to communicate effectively in own field in a highly emotive atmosphere, ie with patients' psychological resistance to personal disclosure and potentially threatening information, e.g. child protection and self harm.</li>
        
        <li>Good communication skills: verbal &amp; written, including presentations.</li>
        
        <li>Computer competency, including knowledge of electronic care records, email, word processing and audit tools.</li>
        
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          ANALYTICAL SKILLS
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Highly developed knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for own specific field (art music or dramatherapy)</li>
        
        <li>Highly developed skills in own field for the application of psychodynamic formulations and theory to work for individuals, groups in caseload.</li>
        
        <li>Able to describe clearly the clinical process to other professionals service users and carers</li>
        
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Good Honours degree in relevant subject and relevant work experience</li>
          
          <li>M.A. Arts psychotherapies(art drama or music)</li>
          
          <li>Significant postqualifying professional experience and a demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to best practice and evidence based practice.</li>
          
          <li>Registered with Health and Care Professions council (HCPC)</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working as a therapist with services users who have experienced a variety of mental health problems including psychotic symptoms.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working as a therapist with service users with complex a learning disability including those with autism, and personality disorders</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working as a therapist role with services users with profound and severe learning disabilities who may have limited communication skills and challenging behaviours</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with carers and families as therapist</li>
          
          <li>Substantial experience of own personal therapy.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of keyworking and care co-ordination of clients</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of continued professional development</li>
          
          <li>Experience of supervising Arts therapies Students/trainees /liaising with university courses</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
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            <li>Experience of working consistently within a multidisciplinary team especially in community and in patient settings as therapist .</li>
            
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            SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Demonstrates skills required of providing individual and group therapeutic interventions in own field including: assessment and treatment and discharge planning.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work in various settings inpatient and outpatient work in community settings with a range of complex cases.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge and skills in how to improve learning through work based and evidence based approach</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrates how to adapt skills in own field from work based learning to support people with a complex Learning disability and challenging behaviour, and or autism and/ or range of mental health problems including: a degree of personality disorder, a history of psychosis.</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrates understanding of organisational and self management skills including management of complex systems and personnel.</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrates clear use of different types of supervision and how it has benefitted work role</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            COMMUNICATION SKILLS
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Ability to communicate effectively in own field in a highly emotive atmosphere, ie with patients' psychological resistance to personal disclosure and potentially threatening information, e.g. child protection and self harm.</li>
          
          <li>Good communication skills: verbal &amp; written, including presentations.</li>
          
          <li>Computer competency, including knowledge of electronic care records, email, word processing and audit tools.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            ANALYTICAL SKILLS
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Highly developed knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for own specific field (art music or dramatherapy)</li>
          
          <li>Highly developed skills in own field for the application of psychodynamic formulations and theory to work for individuals, groups in caseload.</li>
          
          <li>Able to describe clearly the clinical process to other professionals service users and carers</li>
          
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    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  
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      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
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        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      

      
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          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
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    <p>Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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      <p>Colne House</p>
      <p>21 Upton Rd</p>
      <p>Watford</p>
            <p>WD18 0JL</p>
    
  

  
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          <p>Colne House</p>
          <p>21 Upton Rd</p>
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                    <p>WD18 0JL</p>
        
      

      
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There is an extensive range of courses designed to help you grow and succeed in your career.</p> <p>It's a career that brings pride and fulfilment, a true representation of what delivering great healthcare should feel like.</p> <p>For more information, please contact Sigal Spigel, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Email: ; T: </p> <p><strong>Please refer to the job spec when applying. The job spec gives detailed information regarding the job requirements in terms of hours and skills.</strong></p> <p><strong>As a Psychologist you will be:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Working autonomously to provide a specialist psychology service to patients as agreed by Consultant Psychiatrist, Therapies Lead, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and in discussion with wider MDT.</li><li>Undertaking specialist assessments.</li><li>Providing specialist interventions according to formulations based on an appropriate conceptual framework, NICE guidelines, evidence from research, and in accordance with the wider MDT formulation and interventions.</li><li>Be involved in running therapeutic groups on the ward as agreed.</li><li>Continually monitor risk of all patients for whom there is direct contact, or regarding which the post holder receives relevant information, ensure acute risk is managed, liaise with MDT (and in particular responsible psychiatrist) regarding risk, and update electronic record including risk assessment as required.</li><li>Ensuring that all clinical work is adequately recoded in the electronic patient record.</li><li>Attending ward rounds (and other MDT meetings), case conferences, CPAs as required, and provide reports in advance for these in accordance with local procedures.</li><li>Preparing clinical; reports as required, e.g. assessment reports, discharge summaries.</li><li>Liaising with internal and external colleagues as required</li><li>Completing all recording and reporting tasks associated with clinical work.</li><li>Facilitating 'reflective practice' sessions for the ward-based staff as agreed within the psychological therapies team and in discussion with wider MDT. Please note that the reflective practice sessions take place at 7:30am and 7:30pm to cover day and night ward-based staff. There is flexibility in the working arrangements to accommodate these working patterns.</li></ul> <p> <strong>To be successful in this role, you'll need:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Have BPS recognised psychology degrees</li><li>Be HCPC registered</li><li>Have understanding of evidence-based psychological practice</li><li>Have experience of applying psychological knowledge to a psychiatric setting</li><li>Experience in inpatient work preferable but not essential</li></ul> <p><strong>Where you will be working:</strong></p> <p><strong>Location: </strong>190 Barnet Road, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 2SE</p> <p>Join the team at Potters Bar Clinic providing care for young people and adults with acute mental health needs and personality disorders in an established 24-hour care environment. The CAMHS Tier 4 Low Secure services are for young people aged 13-18.Potters Bar Clinic is located in a residential area, only one minute drive from the M25 and a short bus ride from Potters Bar Train Station, with a bus stop right outside, making it an easy commute for most.</p> <p><strong>What you will get:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Annual salary of £53,000, pro rata considered 4 days a week</li><li>The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) - plus your birthday off!</li><li>Free meals and parking</li><li>Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.</li><li>24 hour GP Service to ensure you are the best you can be</li><li>Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.</li><li>Pension contribution to secure your future.</li><li>Life Assurance for added peace of mind.</li><li>Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.</li></ul> <p>There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.</p> <p>A full job description and personal specification is available upon request.</p> <p><strong>About your next employer:</strong></p> You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach

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