PS/693/BCH - S02 (B) S02 (C) A5 (H) - Psychological Health Advisor - Occupational Health Unit

Police Staff
Occupational Health Unit
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Headquarters, WGC, Herts
Well Being - Occupational Health Unit
Permanent
S02 (B) S02 (C) A5 (H)
(Beds £34,578 - £36,369) (Cambs £33,618 - £38,376) (Herts £32,673 - £41,718 Discretionary Area Included)
Full Time
No

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an accredited counsellor trained in EMDR or CBT therapist trained in TF-CBT and or EMDR to join the existing Psychological Health Team at Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary multi-disciplinary Occupational Health, Safety & Wellbeing Unit. 

We are currently seeking to recruit a full time Psychological Health Advisor. This post will be dual site based at the Southern OHU Hub in Welwyn Garden City and the Northern OHU hub based at Sandy as part of the role.

This is a unique opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team providing, short term therapeutic interventions, trauma treatment and wellbeing advice to police officers and staff; you will work closely with other professionals to provide a customer focused service which supports both the organisation and, it’s most important resource, the people who work within it.

You will need to be able to work on your own initiative, with a high degree of autonomy and demonstrate high levels of personal motivation, drive and resilience and the ability to manage an extremely varied workload with ever changing priorities.

You will provide a proactive psychological health service to officers and staff identifying psychological risks and making recommendations on potential resolution. You will provide short term interventions in line with departmental guidelines and provide specialist advice to OH colleagues and managers on fitness for work including report writing and referrals to external sources where required. Further work will include some delivering presentations and skills-based workshops to officer and staff so confident public speaking skills are highly desired for this role.

You will need excellent communication and influencing skills both written and verbal and must be confident in using IT packages such as Microsoft office and databases.

Qualification and skills required are outlined in attached role profile.

There is a requirement to commit to professional supervision to maintain high standards of professional practice for both the practitioner and the client.

Driving license is required as the post holder will be required to travel between the three forces.

For more information about these roles, please contact Emma Liddell, Senior Psychological Health Advisor on 07889 704366.

All internal applicants must have successfully completed their probationary period in order to apply for this role.

Internal applicants within Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary or Hertfordshire Constabulary (BCH), should upload either a CV or a completed ‘Staff internal role summary’ form, which can be found in the vacancy documents below. Please note you will be required to provide a statement no more than 500 words against the minimum entry requirements as stipulated in the role profile.

This vacancy is live to those at risk of redundancy and will remain open to redeployees until the conditional offer stage throughout the recruitment process. Any redeployee that wishes to apply should apply through the redeployment portal and provide a statement no more than 500 words against the minimum entry requirements as stipulated in the role profile. Redeployees will take priority over other applicants at any point during the recruitment process up until a start date is agreed. Redeployee’s should notify the BCH Careers team and their HR Advisor of their application. All applicants will be notified if this occurs.

This force is a Disability Confident employer. Should you require any reasonable adjustments for your application process, please contact the HR on Hertscareers@bch.pnn.police.uk or the manager contact for this role directly. We also offer the guaranteed interview scheme; this means that all candidates with a disability covered by the Equality Act 2010, who meet the minimum entry requirements for the role, will be invited to attend an interview.

All applications must be submitted through our online recruitment website by clicking the apply button below.

It is recommended that you download and store a copy of the role profile as this will no longer be available once the advert has closed.

28 May 2021

This opportunity is closed to applications.