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Job summary

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Clinical Psychologist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
301-KM-24-6278975
Employer
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Brockington Parent and Baby Unit
Town
Stafford
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/05/2024 23:59

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Clinical Psychologist – Perinatal Service

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

We are delighted to share an opportunity that has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Clinical Psychologist to join the South Staffordshire Community Perinatal Mental Health Team.

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate, and creative clinician who wants to make a difference to the lives of mothers, babies, and their wider families, and who strives to provide the best care at all times.

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.

The successful candidate will be closely integrated into and meet regularly with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT). They will be joining a supportive and engaged Perinatal Clinical Psychology team, MDT and wider service, and will receive regular supervision and CPD as well as informal support. Across MPFT Perinatal Services there is a strong psychological structure in place comprising of 9 qualified clinical psychologists and 7 assistant psychologists. We are in the process of recruiting to a Consultant Clinical Psychologist post to support and lead the growing psychology provision.

 The South Staffordshire Community Perinatal Mental Health Team covers the entire geographical region.  There is an expectation for the successful post holder to be able to travel to meet the service need.  The team continue to have a base at Brockington Parent and Baby Unit on the St George’s Hospital site, however we have adapted to new ways of working following the COVID-19 pandemic, and blended working developments continue to be in place. We welcome applications for flexible and hybrid working.

Whilst we are seeking an experienced psychologist to fill this 8a position, if you are recently qualified or due to qualify in 2024, we will consider your application and have an established preceptorship process in place. Please state on your application if this is the case.  

Main duties of the job

  • To provide specialist psychological assessments for mothers in receipt of perinatal mental health services, taking into account the relationship with their baby and family using psychological theories and models.
  • To interpret and integrate complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews, and guided clinical inquiry methods with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.  
  • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, therapeutic treatment and discharge of mothers and their babies. 
  • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, to include risks to the unborn child or infant, and to provide advice to other professions, on psychological aspects of risk assessment, including the risk of self-harm, and risk management.
  • To formulate and make decisions about the treatment and/or management of clients’ mental health problems, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual client and their relationship with their baby.
  • To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for individuals and their families, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory psychological models. In this respect, the post holder will be expected to deliver a relevant range of psychological interventions based on appropriate levels of experience and training.

 

Working for our organisation

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) provides a range of support that can be accessed by their employees: 

  • Supporting your career development and progression
  • Excellent NHS Pension scheme
  • Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
  • Options for flexible working
  • Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) pro rota, and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
  • Extensive Health & Wellbeing support and resources
  • Mileage reimbursement for community teams
  • Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rates
  • 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 is 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)

 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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this position please see the attached job description and specification 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology as recognized by the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
  • Registered with the HCPC under a relevant practitioner psychologist title
Desirable criteria
  • Eligible for Chartership status with the British Psychological Society
  • Further training in a specific psychological model / interventions specific to the role remit/area of work

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • 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

Essential criteria
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • 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.

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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hannah Coates
Job title
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 303 4132

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