Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Greater Manchester Mental Health; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health care provider in Manchester seeks an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for their Mother and Baby unit. You will conduct assessments, provide interventions, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to support mothers with severe mental health issues. This role offers a supportive environment, professional development opportunities, and the chance to contribute to impactful care.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist.
• Experience in risk assessment and management.
• Familiarity with severe mental health conditions and treatments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct psychological assessments of mothers/birthing people.
• Provide evidence-based individual and group psychological interventions.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Psychological intervention

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Therapeutic skills with mothers

Education

Professional qualification in Clinical / Counselling Psychology

HCPC registration

Job description

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Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Manchester

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Client:

Greater Manchester Mental Health

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Manchester, United Kingdom

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job overview

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our specialist Mother and Baby unit in Greater Manchester.

Our Mother and Baby Unit provides specialist inpatient care for mothers/birthing people with severe perinatal mental health difficulties including postpartum psychosis, severe depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders.

The unit focuses on promoting recovery while supporting the crucial early parent-infant relationship.

Main duties of the job

This role is important in ensuring patients get timely access to high quality specialist psychological treatment. As part of the role, you will:

·Conduct psychological assessments of mothers/birthing people with perinatal mental health difficulties

·Assess mother-infant attachment and bonding difficulties

·Provide evidence-based individual and group psychological interventions

·Contribute to risk assessment and management planning

·Maintain detailed clinical records and contribute to care planning

·Offer supervision, consultation, and training to both colleagues within the MDT and wider system

·Collaborate closely with psychiatrists, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, and social workers

·Participate in ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings

·Liaise with Specialist Perinatal Service, Outreach, Community Mental Health Teams, Parent Infant Teams and Social Services

·Support mothers/birthing people through the transition back to community care

The post offers an incredibly supportive team working environment.

You will receive regular clinical and professional supervision and connect with established psychologists working within the wider perinatal system.

There is also opportunity for professional development within a supportive department with additional training being actively encouraged.

Working for our organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed job description and main responsibilities please see job description and person specification

Please see attached job description and person specification

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• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• • Professional qualification in Clinical / Counselling Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• • HCPC registration as a qualified Clinical /Counselling Psychologist.
• • Additional training in an intervention relevant to this client group ( EMDR, CFT, CAT, mother-infant interaction).

Experience

• • Experience of working as a clinical /counselling psychologist.
• • Previous experience of delivering structured psychological interventions to clients with severe and complex mental health problems.
• • Experience in risk assessment, formulation and management.
• • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• • Experience of working with a full range of severe mental health problems and across settings including community, outpatient/clinic and/or inpatient settings.
• • Experience of multidisciplinary teamwork.
• • Experience of consulting with other mental health care and other health care professionals.
• • Experience of providing supervision.
• • Experience of providing training.
• • Experience of working therapeutically with antenatal and/or postnatal women with severe and complex mental health problems.
• • Experience of working with mothers/parents and their infants as well as the wider family system.
• • Experience of working with professionals and services involved in work with parents and/or children and families, in specialist hospital/inpatient or community settings.
• • Experience of teaching, training and supervision of trainee clinical /counselling psychologists.

Knowledge

• • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
• • Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• • Knowledge of legislation in relation to clients with complex, severe and enduring mental health problems including Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
• • Knowledge of policies and procedures that relate to child protection and safeguarding
• • Evidence of CPD.
• • Awareness of perinatal mental health service development and priorities as outlined in the Long Term Plan (LTP).

The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.

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We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.

Sponsorship

We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click.

If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.

The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it .

Do you have experience outside the NHS?

We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.

We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.