Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist MMHS
Posted 1 day 5 hours ago by NHS
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, skilled Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in our Maternal Mental Health Service, Maple.
The Maple Service is for women whose trauma symptoms have a moderate to severe impact on their mental health. This may be due to a traumatic birth experience, pregnancy loss, neonatal death or the loss of a baby as a result of social care procedures due to safeguarding concerns. The trauma may also exist prior to conception, e.g. when tokophobia prevents a woman from achieving a wanted pregnancy.
Staff normally run clinics at team bases, maternity sites as well as conducting home visits. Some clinical work is additionally carried out via video call. Therefore, the successful post-holder must be willing to travel and work flexibly.
Specialist supervision will be provided for the successful applicant by the band 8b Lead Psychologist in the Team. There is a large psychology team working across the whole service who meet regularly, provide peer support, and develop/review the psychological service.
The post holder will actively contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of the maternal mental health service using advanced clinical leadership skills and knowledge to provide training and consultancy in clinical psychology within the specialty area of perinatal mental health. The post holder will be responsible for assessing and treating service users. They are expected to hold a highly complex caseload.
Main duties of the jobThe post holder will jointly oversee the Clinical Psychology caseload of the West sub-team with another 8a already in post.
They will ensure the formulation of profession specific highly specialist care and treatment plans which provide specialist interventions / care to service users with complex mental health conditions. The post holders will be responsible for supporting and supervising band 7 Psychologists and/or trainees, ensuring that the Clinical Psychology team understands and operates to the requirements of the service line operational policy and service line strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.
About usNorth London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
Excellent internal staff network
Job responsibilitiesClinical responsibilities include the provision of psychological assessments of referred clients, and the formulation and implementation of psychological treatment and management plans for a range of problems of severity and complexity. The post holder will also provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients in the perinatal period. They will participate in leading on the delivery and evaluation of psychological interventions within the service.
They will liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients and be actively involved in teaching, training and supervision. This will include supervision of clinical and counselling psychologists, trainee clinical and counselling psychologists, and, where required, of assistant psychologists or other staff providing low intensity interventions, as well as specialist consultation on psychological therapies in the context of mental health to other staff within the service and to other health and social care staff working with the client group.
The post holder will also have opportunities in management, policy and service development as well as research, audit and service evaluation.
They will maintain and develop the highest standards of practice, through active participation in continuing professional development and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in psychological practice in areas related to the post.
Person Specification Education/qualifications- Doctoral level clinical/counselling psychologist
- HCPC registration
- Perinatal or child & family work
- Post-doctoral training in evidence-based psychological therapy
- Trauma therapy training, e.g. NET, CFT, EMDR
- Parent-Infant therapy training, e.g. CoS, VIG
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.
£61,631 to £68,623 a yearPer annum including HCAS (Pro-rata)