An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Inpatient Unit for a Band 8A Clinical Psychologist Post. We will consider both full time and part time requests and having some inpatient experience would be advantageous although not essential. We are looking for someone who is passionate and motivated about working with women and their babies, who is caring and compassionate and eager to join a supportive and high achieving team.
The Mother and Baby Unit has the capacity to admit 8 mothers and babies, with a serious mental illness in the third trimester of pregnancy and up to one year post-partum. Babies are admitted with their mothers to build and maintain the mother/infant relationship. The Unit is accredited by the Perinatal Quality Network.
There are strong links between the MBU and the Perinatal Mental Health Teams, and the successful candidate will gain support and supervision from the ward but also psychology and therapy within the perinatal mental health team. We also have strong links with the local Clinical Psychology Doctoral Courses and regularly have trainees on placement on the MBU. The successful candidate will also be able to access CPD from both the Mother and Baby Unit Perinatal Mental Health Team.
You will be part of a dedicated MDT delivering high quality care to women and their babies. Experience of an acute inpatient setting is preferable, however a full induction programme is provided for the successful applicant. You will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team providing psychological formulations for all women. The successful applicant will be able to provide one to one psychological interventions, facilitate groups and provide Reflective Practice for the staff. Supervision and learning/training opportunities are actively encouraged. To provide a psychological presence on the ward, engaging with women to provide formulations, interventions either in a 1:1 or group setting and facilitating reflective practice.
There is opportunity for supervision, training and development of research and audits.
For further details please consult the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
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Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for detailed main responsibilities:
• Provision of highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of referred client’s, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• Implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
• Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• Exercising autonomous professional responsibility, within the context of multidisciplinary team working, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
• Consulting, advising, and/or supervising colleagues from other disciplines on the psychological formulation and management of patients with mental health problems, particularly in areas of specialist knowledge.
• Contributing directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• Implementing case management within the framework of the Care Programme Approach if appropriate, including fulfilling the role of care co-ordinator if appropriate, initiating planning and review of care plans involving clients, carers, and others involved in the care package, in this process.
• Assessing, monitoring, and managing clinical risk in order to minimise this risk to patients, other people, and oneself, and providing advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• Communicating orally and in writing, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients, to referrers and others involved in the clients care on a need to know basis.
• Developing and maintaining links and liaison with officers and staff of Social Services, midwifery, Obstetricians, General Practitioners and other Health Care Workers.
• Attending clinical meetings, case reviews, and case conferences as appropriate.
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Apr 2025
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