Maternity Counsellor Required: Manchester

WhereToTalk; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Maternity Counsellor to join the Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service. The role involves counselling families affected by pregnancy complications, trauma, and loss.

The post holder will balance clinical work with liaison and administrative duties within a multi-disciplinary team. The post requires delivering psychological support across pregnancy and postpartum, undertaking assessments, and managing a caseload of individual and

Qualifications

• Experience providing psychological and therapeutic interventions for mothers, birthing people/partners and couples.
• Capable of conducting emotional and psychological assessments across pregnancy and postpartum.
• Ability to deliver short- and longer-term counselling in sensitive cases.

Responsibilities

• Offer face-to-face, virtual or telephone counselling to identified families.
• Undertake assessments to determine treatment appropriateness and risk.
• Carry a caseload of individual and couple counselling across mental health needs.
• Deliver specialist counselling including bereavement and pregnancy loss support.
• Provide professional clinical judgement and liaise with psychiatry or psychology colleagues.

Skills

Counselling

Mental health assessment

Risk assessment

Caseload management

Job description

Maternity Counsellor Required: Manchester

Maternity Counsellor Required: Manchester

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 349-SPH-8171696-RL4

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Saint Mary's Managed Clinical Service for a Band 6 maternity counselor to join the established Specialist maternity Counselling team.

The post holder will be working within the counselling service team across the MCS, for parents who have suffered major complications of pregnancy and delivery. In addition to the clinical service, they will also be responsible for balancing, liaison, and administrative aspects of the counselling service. The post holder must demonstrate a commitment to providing psychological and therapeutic interventions for mothers, birthing people /partners and couples on a range of complex and sensitive issues specific to pregnancy, for example (not exclusive to) traumatic birth, tokophobia (fear of labour) pregnancy loss (including termination of pregnancy for foetal/maternal conditions and stillbirth, miscarriage and neonatal loss pregnancy loss), issues surrounding surviving twins/triplets, and support with next pregnancy.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will offer face to face, virtual or telephone psychological and emotional psychological support to identified families in line with MFT Values and behaviors'.

Undertake assessments of all patients referred at any stage of pregnancy or postpartum, many of whom present with multiple and complex issues (e.g. mental health concerns, psychiatric histories and/or safeguarding concerns) in order to establish appropriateness of treatment including emotional support as and when this is required and risk assessment.

Carry a caseload of individual (in-patient and out-patient) and couple counselling, providing short, medium and longer term counselling and support as required

Deliver specialist therapeutic counselling to patients including bereavement and pregnancy loss, next pregnancy support.

The post holder is responsible and accountable for matters of professional clinical judgement. They may seek advice and guidance as required and appropriate, from liaison psychiatry or other accredited psychotherapy/clinical psychology colleagues and other healthcare specialists