Band 8a Specialist Practitioner Psychologist within the Maternity Psychological Service Location: Royal Jubilee Maternity Pay Per Hour: £27.49 JOB SUMMARY/MAIN PURPOSE: The Maternity Psychological Service provides a specialist service to patients of Maternity Services within the Belfast Trust. It is an acute hospital Service providing specialist psychological assessment and interventions for patients and their families in relation to current or past complications of pregnancy. The Service also provides consultation, teaching, supervision and support to local maternity staff and at a regional level as necessary. The successful applicant will join our growing team in providing a high-quality specialist psychology service to patients and families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to our multidisciplinary colleagues. The successful candidate may have opportunities to contribute to research, audit, policy, and service development. .MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES Provide highly specialist psychological assessment of service-users, families and carers referred to the Maternity Psychological Service Formulate and implement care-plans for the psychological care and/or management of a service-user's psychological difficulties. Implement and evaluate a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, caregivers, families and groups within this specialist area. Communicate sensitive information to professionals, service-users, carers and families using the highest level of interpersonal skills. Maintain a high degree of professionalism and respect for cultural diversity, remaining aware of the power-imbalance that service-users may experience at times. Provide a psychological perspective and expertise for service activities, including case discussions, team meetings, referral meetings and case formulation sessions. Provide highly specialist psychological formulations, advice and consultation across a range of settings, including multidisciplinary and multi-agency meetings or reviews. Provide risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide guidance to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. Provide professional and clinical supervision to Assistant/ Associate Psychologists, junior Practitioner Psychologists and non-psychology colleagues where appropriate. Provide clinical and research placements for Trainee Clinical Psychologists. Provide advice, consultation and training to develop and support the psychological skills and understanding of members of the MDT and other organisations where appropriate. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, policies and issues in relation to working with service-users attending the Maternity Psychological Service. Ensure the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes. Receive regular, specialist clinical supervision from a senior professional colleague in accordance with good professional practice guidelines. ESSENTIAL CRITERIA Honours degree in Psychology (or equivalent) conferring Eligibility for Chartered Membership of BPS. Postgraduate Doctorate accredited by the BPS and qualifying the person to work as an HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist. Registered with HCPC at time of taking up appointment. Significant post-qualification experience working as a Practitioner Psychologist Significant experience working effectively with multidisciplinary teams. Hold a current full driving licence which is valid for use in the UK and have access to a car on appointment.. .DESIRABLE CRITERIA Experience working within a perinatal / maternity context. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of junior Practitioner Psychologists or non-psychology colleagues/ organisations. Up-to-date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to perinatal and maternity services If you are interested and available for this position, please upload your CV to the link or contact Kelly Cunningham at Kelly.cunn To be shortlisted for this role all applicants MUST meet the essential criteria. Please note that these roles may be filled quickly but your CV will be kept on file for future similar roles. As there are so many applications, unsuccessful candidates may not be contacted. Successful candidates may need to apply for an Access NI Certificate with Staffline regardless if you already have a valid certificate. It will be a cost of between £16 - £32 depending on clearance level. Skills: Psychologist Registered Practitioner Maternity