Psychology Lead – Maternal Mental Health - Maple Service (SPMHS)
| Posting date: | 09 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,396.00 to £80,837.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £70396.00 - £80837.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, N9 7HD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9455-25-0635 |
Summary
The post holder will lead and manage psychological therapists working in Maple Service across the five boroughs of North London Foundation Trust. They will ensure delivery of high-quality evidence based psychological interventions. The post holder will be responsible for providing / ensuring highly specialist clinical supervision and management supervision to psychology staff in the Maple Service. The post holder will provide advice, consultation, teaching, training and supervision to other health and social care staff working in the service and in other associated services as appropriate. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the psychology team understand and operate to the requirements of the services operational policy and strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent and trauma informed care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. The post holder will play a key strategic role in expanding and developing service provision in line with national guidelines and local priorities and they will actively contribute to the evaluation of clinical services through audit and governance. The post holder will be responsible for providing highly skilled psychological assessment and specialist intervention to highly complex clients of one of the Maple Service teams and will be expected to offer advice, consultation and support to other teams as needed. The post holder will guide and support quality improvement, involvement in research and service and carer involvement / co-production. The post holder will be responsible for developing the psychology workforce - leading on recruitment, identifying training needs and managing gaps in service.