Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Northgate Health Centre
Town Shropshire
Salary £46,148 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 26/02/2025 23:59
Interview date 12/03/2025
Clinical Psychologist Band 7/8a Preceptorship - Perinatal Service
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. The post is either available at B8A or will be offered B7 initially as a preceptorship post, to develop to B8A post.
We are a specialist service that strives to deliver an excellent standard of care to expectant and new mothers who are experiencing severe and complex mental health problems. The team is multi-disciplinary and works directly with women and their families providing assessment and interventions within the perinatal period with a range of mental health needs.
We are looking for a dynamic, passionate, and creative clinician who wants to make a difference to the lives of families and who strives to always provide the best care. You will have a passion for supporting both Adult and Infant Mental Health and an understanding of how psychological interventions may be applied within this specialty.
You will join a multidisciplinary team who are innovative and have a patient-centred approach at the heart of their delivery, with an expanding psychology team. The team works with partners both within and outside of the Trust, with close links with Maternity Services, Lighthouse (Maternal Mental Health Service), Brockington Parent Baby Unit, Health Visiting, NHS Talking Therapies, and other mental health services. You will be part of a friendly and supportive group of Perinatal Psychologists that work across MPFT Perinatal Services.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the autonomous provision of a specialist psychological service to women and their babies who are in receipt of specialist perinatal mental health services.
* Complex assessments and psychological formulations of mental health.
* Interpretation of assessment instruments to inform intervention plans.
* Delivery of both individual and group interventions.
* Consultation and advice to professionals across community settings.
* Undertake risk assessment and risk management, to include risks to the unborn child. Providing advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk management.
* To provide clinical supervision to psychologists in training, assistant psychologists and other professions as required.
* To contribute to/facilitate MDT sessions, such as Learning and Development slots, Group Supervision and Reflective Practice.
* Attendance at weekly MDT meetings.
* Utilise research skills for ongoing development of the service.
* To provide at least one specialist evidence-based psychological intervention.
* To undertake training in specialist psychological interventions as required.
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression.
* Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
* Options for flexible working.
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
* Free car parking at all trust sites.
* Free flu vaccinations every year.
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be responsible for the provision of a therapeutic psychological/mental health service to mothers and their babies who are in receipt of perinatal mental health services. This role will offer a service across the geographical area of the Trust. This role will incorporate complex assessments leading to psychological formulations of mental health difficulties; interpretation of assessment instruments and forming intervention plans, and the delivery of interventions to this population.
The PMHT covers Telford and Shropshire area. The team base is in Bridgnorth, and we use other MPFT facilities across the county. Blended working options are centred around clinical demand.
For more information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and job specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate/Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology as recognized by the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
* Registered with the HCPC.
* Eligible for Chartership status with the British Psychological Society.
* Further training in a psychological model/intervention specific to the role remit/area of work – attachment based intervention; EMDR; DBT; CBT; Video Interaction Guidance.
Experience
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention across a full range of settings.
* Experience of work in multidisciplinary teams and with multi-agency networks.
* Experience of consultation with professionals from both within the Health Service and Partner Agencies.
* Ability to work effectively within safeguarding procedures in the context of a therapeutic service.
* Experience working therapeutically with women and babies with significant emotional or mental health difficulties, and their families/carers.
* Experience of perinatal mental health.
* Experience of providing therapeutic intervention in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of leading and contributing to the development of services.
* Experience of conducting research and/or audit in clinical settings.
* Experience of group work.
* Experience of role as CPA coordinator.
* Experience of working in community and inpatient settings.
* Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
Skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
* Ability and knowledge relating to self-harm related risk assessment and care-planning.
* An ability to formulate and provide treatment within at least two models of psychological therapy and the experience and a working knowledge of at least one other approach to psychological intervention.
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Knowledge of research methodology.
* Knowledge of Attachment theory and its application to clinical work.
* A clear grasp of the concept of mental health recovery.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group and mental health.
* Completion of formal training or courses in conducting specialist psychological assessments (incl. risk assessment and risk management).
* Knowledge of the theory & practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g., Personality disorders).
* Skills in providing consultation/training to other professional and non-professional groups.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Jo Lees Job title Team Leader Email address jo.lees@mpft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0300 303 4132 Additional information
Please contact Jo Lees or Dr Liz Mear, Principal Clinical Psychologist elizabeth.mear@mpft.nhs.uk
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