Job summary
The Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service are delighted to advertise for two additional team members to form part of our MDT to provide maternity leave cover for some of our psychological therapies staff.
We are excited to hear from anyone who may be considering a career in Perinatal Mental Health and who thinks this might be a good opportunity for them. Our service has grown significantly in recent years and expansion to our therapies team and their clinical offer has been a core part of that.
The goal of the service is to support and improve the lives of the families referred to us, and evidence based psychological interventions delivered via a trauma informed approach to both mums/birthing people and their babies is central to us achieving this. Our therapies team are highly valued and well integrated within the whole team.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology/psychological therapy service to women/birthing people, their babies, and the wider family, within the Perinatal Mental Health Service (PNMH). To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
For a full list of duties, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a wide range of mental health, learning disabilities, substance misuse, forensic and specialist services across Sheffield.
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is a major employer and provider of services. Our Service Users, Carers and Staff are central, and our values are important to the delivery of high-quality care. Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at the Trust is expected to live and breathe, and we are proud to live our values each and every day, as they outline how we will act to ensure we provide the very best care to the people we support.
We actively seek out individuals who share these values:
1. Working together for service users
2. Respect and kindness
3. Everyone counts
4. Commitment to quality
5. Improving lives
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification, check out our website: Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service | Sheffield Health and Social Care ( get in touch if you have any questions at all about the role or if a chat might be helpful.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
6. oKnowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
7. oWell-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
8. oSkills in providing consultation and/or supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
9. o(Clinical Psychologists only) Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages ( SPSS)
Desirable
10. oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in Perinatal Mental Health Services.
11. oHigh level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two relevant specialised psychological therapies.
12. oUnderstanding related to trauma and attachment difficulties and the impacts of these in clinical practice and for people's lives.
13. oKnowledge of relevant legislation and policy pertaining to service delivery ( safeguarding).
Training and qualifications
Essential
14. Training and qualifications Essential oPost-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS. oRegistration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC OR oPost-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy oAccreditation with the BABCP for CBT (or a commitment to gain accreditation within one year of starting the post). oQualified & registered Psychotherapist ( Art therapist / CAT psychotherapist / IPT therapist / Family therapist). OR oRecognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist, and oProvisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT
Desirable
15. oTraining and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology/psychological therapy.
16. oAdditional, post-qualification training in Perinatal Mental health and related fields.
Experience
Essential
17. oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across a range of settings.
18. oAbility to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties.
19. oAbility to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of this and their highly emotive and distressing difficulties.
20. oExperience of working with a wide variety of service user groups presenting with difficulties within a range of clinical severities.
21. oEvidence of being able to work effectively in teams.
22. oExperience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
23. oExperience of working in Perinatal Mental Health (or related) Services.
24. oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
25. oExperience of working directly with trauma and attachment difficulties and their impacts.
26. oExperience in working with complex safeguarding situations.