Senior Perinatal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Foots Cray; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is seeking a Band 8a clinical or counselling psychologist to join its innovative Perinatal Mental Health Team in Foots Cray. The role involves providing specialized psychological assessment and intervention for mothers and families, with opportunities for clinical supervision and personal development. Candidates should have a strong background in attachment and developmental psychology, as well as experience in multidisciplinary settings. This position offers impactful work in community mental health, supporting pregnant and postnatal women with complex needs while being part of a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Experience with perinatal mental health care.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for mothers and families.
• Offer clinical supervision to junior staff.
• Deliver evidence-based individual and group interventions.

Skills

Attachment and developmental psychology

Clinical assessment

Evidence-based interventions

Supervision skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

Oxleas are seeking to recruit to a fixed term highly motivated, Band 8a clinical/counselling psychologist or CBT therapist to join our community Perinatal Mental Health Team (based in the Bromley Team). It is an exciting time to join the team as it is a burgeoning and innovative field for perinatal psychology. Our Perinatal team offers a unique opportunity to develop skills in both adult mental health and also to develop skills in parent infant and family work. It is an ideal opportunity for psychologist with an interest in attachment, developmental psychology, infant mental health and working with family systems. The trust wide service is based at Queen Mary's hospital and consists of a multidisciplinary team of professionals including consultant psychiatrists, specialist perinatal nurses, clinical psychologists, CBT therapists, nursery nurses and OTs. We offer a community service for pregnant and postnatal women with severe and complex mental health difficulties. The team has close links with other services, including IAPT, secondary care mental health teams and maternity as well as third sector organisations. We work collaboratively with other services (eg maternity service and health visiting) and with experts by experience to continue to provide high quality care and are committed to ensure excellent outcomes for women and their families.

Main duties of the job. Main Clinical Duties; The main clinical work undertaken is to provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for mothers and their babies and families in the community. The post holder will also offer clinical supervision to more junior staff and trainees. The post holder will be involved in delivering evidence-based individual and group-based interventions. The psychological therapies team include clinical and counselling psychologists, as well as CBT therapists. The successful applicant will be part of a friendly and supportive team. There is an established reflective practice space for the whole team as well as regular individual supervision provided by the senior psychologist. Opportunities to develop supervision skills are consistently available and Oxleas has a longstanding relationship with clinical and counselling doctorate programs in taking trainees and developing the wider workforce.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're
• We Listen
• We Care