Psychology Lead - Maternal Mental Health

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Clinical or Counseling Psychologist experienced in perinatal mental health. You will lead a team in delivering evidence-based care, manage clinical supervision, and ensure high-quality interventions. The position requires leadership qualities and enthusiasm to improve accessibility to mental health services. Benefits include NHS discounts, generous leave, and a supportive work environment focused on well-being.

Benefits

NHS discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and well-being initiatives

Qualifications

• Significant experience of perinatal mental health required.
• Experience leading psychological services and managing teams.
• Capability to deliver quality improvement and oversee audits.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage psychological therapists in the Maple Service.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Provide clinical and management supervision to psychology staff.

Skills

Leadership experience

Clinical supervision

Evidence-based interventions

Trauma-informed care

Job description

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk

Role Overview

We are looking for a Clinical or Counseling Psychologist with significant experience of perinatal mental health to lead, manage and develop our team of clinical, counseling and assistant psychologists working in Maternal Mental Health (Maple Service) which is part of specialist perinatal mental health services (SPMHS) across the five boroughs of the North London Foundation Trust (NLFT). This recently revised post is an exciting opportunity for someone with energy, enthusiasm and leadership experience and qualities. You will help establish and maintain excellent services which are welcoming, accessible and deliver high quality evidence‑based care.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage psychological therapists working in Maple Service across the five boroughs of North London.
• Ensure delivery of high‑quality evidence‑based psychological interventions.
• Provide or ensure clinical and management supervision to psychology staff.
• Ensure the psychology team operates to the requirements of the service's operational policy and strategy, delivering safe, evidence‑based, NICE concordant, culturally competent and trauma‑informed care in a timely manner.
• Play a key strategic role in expanding and developing service provision in line with national guidelines and local priorities, and actively contribute to service evaluation through audit and governance.
• Provide highly skilled psychological assessment and specialist intervention to highly complex clients, and offer advice, consultation and support to other teams as needed.
• Guide and support quality improvement, involvement in research and service, and carer involvement / co‑production.
• Develop the psychology workforce – lead on recruitment, identify training needs and manage gaps in service.

Diversity & Inclusion

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.

Five‑Year Strategy

1. Provide consistently high‑quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. Offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. Pioneer research, quality improvement and technology to be more effective as an organisation.

Why NLFT?

• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours, manager programmes and many more opportunities.
• Promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and well‑being initiatives.
• Offer NHS discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme.
• Provide excellent internal staff network support groups.

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

Please feel free to contact us for further information about the post.