Perinatal Psychology Therapist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS seeks a Band 7 Perinatal Psychology Therapist for the emotional wellbeing service supporting families during the perinatal period. This role involves delivering psychological support, providing supervision, and contributing to multi-agency care planning within a specialized environment. This is a fixed-term position until March 2026 and offers an opportunity to gain valuable experience.

Qualifications

• Experience working with families during the perinatal period.
• Postgraduate qualification in recognised psychological therapy.
• Accreditation with professional body required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based psychological support to parents with mental health difficulties.
• Provide clinical supervision and reflective practice.
• Act as a key contact for multi-agency working for parental emotional wellbeing.

Skills

Experience working with parents or families in the perinatal period.

Delivering 1:1 psychological interventions.

Providing clinical supervision or reflective practice.

Education

Postgraduate qualification in a recognised psychological therapy.

Accreditation/registration with a relevant professional body (e.g., UKCP, HCPC, BACP).

Job description

Come join our Parent-Baby Emotional Wellbeing (PBEW) Service as a Band 7 Perinatal Psychology Therapist.

This is a rare opportunity to join a borough-wide early intervention service dedicated to supporting families during the perinatal period. We are looking for a reflective, trauma-informed Psychology Therapist to work within our integrated PBEW team, offering clinical supervision, reflective practice, and brief therapeutic input to families.

The PBEW Service is a borough-wide triage and therapeutic holding service supporting families during pregnancy and the first two years postpartum. It offers early identification, emotional wellbeing support, and time-limited therapeutic work while clients are awaiting or transitioning into other pathways such as Talking Therapies, PPIMHS, or Family Hubs.

This is a psychologically minded service with strong emphasis on reflective practice, attachment-based work, and borough-wide system integration. External clinical supervision will be provided via a recognised perinatal mental health provider.

The service has been recommissioned following a successful pilot year and has potential for further extension beyond March 2026.

This 20 hours post is offered on a fixed-term contract until March 2026 and is an ideal secondment opportunity for someone looking to build perinatal experience in a close-knit and specialist environment.

Main duties of the job

You will provide 1:1 and group clinical supervision, contribute to MDT and care planning formulation, and hold a small caseload of parents with mild to moderate emotional wellbeing needs.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if wereceive sufficient applications for the role.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Job responsibilities

Clinical Delivery

• Deliver brief, evidence-based psychological support to parents presenting with mild to moderate mental health or relational difficulties in the perinatal period.
• Hold a small caseload where needs are not met by other services (e.g. declined from PPIMHS or IAPT, or on a waiting list for other service).

Supervision & Reflective Practice

• Provide regular 1:1 clinical supervision to the PBEW team.
• Facilitate weekly group reflective practice for the wider multidisciplinary team, including Early Help and Community Nursery Nurse staff.
• Support psychologically informed thinking within team discussions and MDT-based case formulation.

Liaison and Multi-agency Working

• Act as a key point of contact for 019 practitioners (Health Visitors, School Nurses), Early Help teams, and Family Hubs regarding parental emotional wellbeing and the parent-infant relationship.
• Provide psychologically informed input into multi-agency discussions, referral pathways, and planning.
• Work closely with external services (PPIMHS, maternity, VCS, IAPT) to ensure continuity and integration of care.

Training & Workforce Development

• Support the co-design and delivery of training workshops for health visiting teams, Early Help, and partner agencies.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of borough-wide perinatal mental health awareness and relational practice skills.

Safeguarding & Risk

• Contribute to identification and escalation of safeguarding concerns.
• Work in partnership with the Operational Lead to ensure safe management of risk and appropriate referral or escalation.
• Maintain clear documentation and participate in case reviews where required.

Clinical Governance & Professional Standards

• Adhere to the ethical and professional standards of your registering body (e.g. UKCP, BACP, HCPC).
• Maintain professional registration and complete mandatory CPD.
• Engage in regular external clinical supervision provided by a specialist service (e.g. NELFT).
• Ensure all clinical notes, outcome measures, and communications are completed to a high standard and in line with GP Care Group policy.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working with parents or families in the perinatal period.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in a recognised psychological therapy (e.g. psychotherapy, counselling psychology, CBT, systemic therapy).

Qualifications

• Accreditation/registration with a relevant professional body (e.g. UKCP, HCPC, BACP, BABCP).

Experience

• Experience of delivering 1:1 psychological interventions.

Experience

• Experience providing clinical supervision or reflective practice.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

£51,883 to £58,544 a yearIncluding Outer HCAS (pro-rata)