Senior Perinatal Psychological Therapist (BABCP accredited)

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in North London seeks a part-time Senior Perinatal Practitioner Psychological Therapist to join their team. In this permanent position, you'll oversee a complex caseload focused on perinatal mental health services in Enfield and Haringey. Responsibilities include providing evidence-based interventions, training staff, and building community referral pathways. Ideal candidates will have an accredited psychotherapy qualification and experience in managing clinical psychology services. The role promotes flexible working and comes with NHS benefits.

Benefits

NHS discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Strong background in delivering clinical psychology to perinatal clients.
• Ability to assess and create treatment plans for complex mental health conditions.
• Experience supervising or supporting other psychologists or trainees.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Perinatal Psychology caseload for the East sub-team in North London.
• Provide training and consultancy in clinical psychology.
• Build community links and referral pathways for clients.

Skills

Advanced clinical leadership skills

Experience in perinatal mental health

Evidence-based interventions

Complex caseload management

Education

BABCP accredited psychotherapy qualification

Job description

This post is part of the Perinatal Psychological Therapies leadership team responsible for overseeing the Psychology provision in their patch. The Clinical Psychology team across the service comprises one band 8b Clinical Psychologist, band 8a Practitioner Psychologists, band 7 Practitioner Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Honorary Placement Students. The post holder will actively contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of perinatal mental health services using advanced clinical leadership skills and knowledge to provide training and consultancy in clinical psychology within the specialty area of perinatal mental health. The post holder will be responsible for assessing and treating service users in Camden and Islington. 20% of their workload is expected to be management & leadership and 80% will be clinical interventions. They are expected to hold a highly complex caseload., The current post advertised is for 1 part-time (0.4wte), permanent role for Senior Perinatal Practitioner Psychological Therapist (BABCP accredited): Based in the East Team, with boroughs of responsibility Enfield & Haringey. Important note: The successful candidate will be expected to build community links, referral pathways and provide clinical assessments and evidence based interventions both at their borough of responsibility and their team base. The post holder will jointly oversee the Perinatal Psychology caseload of the East sub-team (Enfield and Haringey) with another 8a already in post. The post holder will ensure the formulation of profession specific highly specialist care and treatment plans which provide specialist interventions / care to service users with complex mental health conditions. The post holder will be responsible for supporting and supervising band 7 Psychologists and/or trainees, ensuring that the SPMHS Psychology team understands and operates to the requirements of the service line operational policy and service line strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy: 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 1. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 1. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 1. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network