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This is a very exciting opportunity for two enthusiastic and committed individuals to join a set of exceptional clinical leaders in the Psychology Department of the Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) of Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust.  MHSOP provides comprehensive mental health and community services for the whole of Hertfordshire for people with mental health conditions over the age of 65.

These positions are designed to provide expert psychological assessment, intervention and consultation to specialist community mental health and dementia care (including young onset dementia), crisis, care home and in-patient services located in four geographically defined, service quadrants covering the whole of Hertfordshire.

You will have the chance to jointly lead the psychological offer in a quadrant and to contribute to the psychology leadership team in MHSOP. A wide variety of psychological interventions and models from specialist neuropsychological assessment and interventions to a wide range of psychological work with older people with highly complex mental health needs are used in the service with an increasing focus on service user and carer co-production and continuous quality improvement.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The post-holder is responsible for the systematic provision of high quality mental health services to clients of the MHSOP services. This will include:

• Provision of clinical psychological assessment, including neuropsychological assessment and specialist psychological interventions to service users in the memory clinics and other older person. 
• Primary responsibility for support and supervision to qualified and unqualified team members delivering psychological assessment.
• For the 0.7 position this will also include onr day of leadership and supervision for Psychology colleagues working in the Integrated Care Service and Care Home Teams.
• Supervision of assistant psychologist in memory clinics (EMDASS).
• Monitoring referrals and management of the waiting list in conjunction with clinical psychology.
• Monitoring the capacity of the service and in conjunction with the professional lead for MHSOP psychological therapies, identifying new initiatives to provide optimum service.
• Deputising for the Head of MHSOP Psychology as appropriate.
• Contributing to and supporting the delivery of high quality psychological therapies throughout East and North through active involvement in joint service development and quality improvement initiatives .

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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.

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!