Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – MMHS
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 6DB |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6063470/310-ASMH-6063470 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to take a clinical leadership role in the development of the maternal mental health service (MMHS). This will integrate maternity, reproductive health and psychological therapy for women experiencing mental health difficulties arising from the maternity experience including trauma and loss. This service will be based within the Perinatal Mental Health Team and work closely with a multi-disciplinary therapy team. Specialist Midwives will form part of the team and the work will involve working very closely with local maternity units.
A Clinical/Counselling Psychologist post is being advertised, to be based in the north hub (Peterborough, Huntingdon, and Fenland). The post-holder will have clinical oversight of the service and lead on service/pathway development and clinical governance. They will deliver assessments, a range of interventions, training, supervision, consultation, and support to maternity services. We are a community-based team and there will be some expectation to travel for home visits. We would encourage applications with qualified experience in relevant fields or who have applicable knowledge and skills. Specialist training will be provided.
We have a hybrid working model. Your contractual base can be the nearest site to your home address. Travel will be compensated in line with NHS terms.
The Principal Psychologist will lead on the provision of a high-quality specialist psychological service. They will be responsible for overseeing the clinical work of the service; for developing and monitoring all governance processes, and the interface with all partner agencies.
The post-holder will conduct psychological assessments and provide therapy, drawing on a range of models, to birthing people and their families focused up trauma and loss related to maternity experiences. They will also supervise, and support work, including psychologically informed birth plans, provided by specialist midwives within the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway.
The post-holders will have a leadership role within the MMHS which will sit alongside the wider multi-disciplinary perinatal mental health team for added support and resource. The post-holder will be part of a therapy team made up of psychologists, family therapists and a parent-infant psychotherapist.
The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Maternal Mental Health Service.
The post-holder will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy, service development and research.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• To clinically lead on the service delivery and target objectives/priorities of the Maternal Mental Health Service, to ensure the most efficient and effective utilisation and contribution of psychological knowledge and practice.
• To provide clinical leadership alongside the consultant clinical psychologist in developing and expanding the MMHS and its influence over the wider maternity and perinatal pathways.
• To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients of the service based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems. Formulations and plans for support should incorporate interpersonal, cultural, societal and biological factors.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, families and groups.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients in accordance with Trust policy and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, where appropriate.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of care.
• To develop effective links with the range of agencies, statutory and non-statutory, involved in providing care and support to clients and families / support networks.
• To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.
• To offer a systemic, reflective, and psychological perspective within the team around our understanding of families as well as team and organisational dynamics.
• To utilise skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the evaluation, monitoring, and development of psychological services, operational policies, and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
This is an exciting opportunity to take a clinical leadership role in the development of the maternal mental health service (MMHS). This will integrate maternity, reproductive health and psychological therapy for women experiencing mental health difficulties arising from the maternity experience including trauma and loss. This service will be based within the Perinatal Mental Health Team and work closely with a multi-disciplinary therapy team. Specialist Midwives will form part of the team and the work will involve working very closely with local maternity units.
A Clinical/Counselling Psychologist post is being advertised, to be based in the north hub (Peterborough, Huntingdon, and Fenland). The post-holder will have clinical oversight of the service and lead on service/pathway development and clinical governance. They will deliver assessments, a range of interventions, training, supervision, consultation, and support to maternity services. We are a community-based team and there will be some expectation to travel for home visits. We would encourage applications with qualified experience in relevant fields or who have applicable knowledge and skills. Specialist training will be provided.
We have a hybrid working model. Your contractual base can be the nearest site to your home address. Travel will be compensated in line with NHS terms.
The Principal Psychologist will lead on the provision of a high-quality specialist psychological service. They will be responsible for overseeing the clinical work of the service; for developing and monitoring all governance processes, and the interface with all partner agencies.
The post-holder will conduct psychological assessments and provide therapy, drawing on a range of models, to birthing people and their families focused up trauma and loss related to maternity experiences. They will also supervise, and support work, including psychologically informed birth plans, provided by specialist midwives within the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway.
The post-holders will have a leadership role within the MMHS which will sit alongside the wider multi-disciplinary perinatal mental health team for added support and resource. The post-holder will be part of a therapy team made up of psychologists, family therapists and a parent-infant psychotherapist.
The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Maternal Mental Health Service.
The post-holder will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy, service development and research.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• To clinically lead on the service delivery and target objectives/priorities of the Maternal Mental Health Service, to ensure the most efficient and effective utilisation and contribution of psychological knowledge and practice.
• To provide clinical leadership alongside the consultant clinical psychologist in developing and expanding the MMHS and its influence over the wider maternity and perinatal pathways.
• To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients of the service based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems. Formulations and plans for support should incorporate interpersonal, cultural, societal and biological factors.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, families and groups.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients in accordance with Trust policy and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, where appropriate.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of care.
• To develop effective links with the range of agencies, statutory and non-statutory, involved in providing care and support to clients and families / support networks.
• To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.
• To offer a systemic, reflective, and psychological perspective within the team around our understanding of families as well as team and organisational dynamics.
• To utilise skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the evaluation, monitoring, and development of psychological services, operational policies, and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024