Perinatal Principal Clinical Psychologist
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Are you a Clinical Psychologist who is interested in taking up a leadership post in perinatal mental health?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our expanding team in Stoke and North Staffs.
Main duties of the job
You will join a well-established team of psychological professionals working across the Parent and Baby Unit (PBU; community perinatal service) and Lotus (maternal mental health service). The team is made up of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, 3 Senior Clinical Psychologists, 1 Specialist Psychological Therapist and an Assistant Psychologist, with further investment expected in 2024/2025 to grow the psychology provision further.
The PBU is a specialist perinatal community team and day service, where psychology is well integrated with other psychologically minded professionals. The Lotus team is a psychology-led maternal mental health team, specialising in birth trauma, tokophobia and loss.
The psychological provision is shared across both teams and is well established with clear working practices in place. We successfully work without holding a waiting list, ensuring timely access to psychological therapy. Our capacity model also allows psychological professionals to focus time on enhancing psychologically informed care within the team (through supervision, teaching, consultation).
About us
As a Trust, we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high-quality care.
We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Job responsibilities
The focus for the post holder will be to maintain and develop these working practices as the provision grows, managing psychology capacity across the teams and providing clinical leadership to the PBU MDT and to the psychological professionals within it.
You will work closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to achieve this.
We have so far been able to make use of significant CPD opportunities for psychological professionals in the team.
We welcome anyone with established perinatal experience, or those who have not worked in perinatal mental health and have a keen interest in joining the perinatal community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience
* Substantial experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist within a relevant service area/ areas including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
Knowledge
* Doctoral level knowledge of evidence-based practice relevant to the role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
£62,215 to £72,293 a year pro rata, per annum.
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