Psychology Lead – Maternal Mental Health - Maple Service (SPMHS)
| Posting date: | 09 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,396 - £80,837 Per Annum including HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, N9 7HD |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7670655/455-NLFT-0428-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at North London NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with significant experience of perinatal mental health to lead, manage and develop our team of clinical, counselling 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 which deliver high quality evidence based care.
You will join the senior leadership team in SPMHS and be part of a large psychology service across the five boroughs of the NLFT. The wider psychology service can offer you peer support, CPD, specialist supervision and research opportunities and guidance.
Please feel free to contact us for further information about the post.
• The post holder will lead and manage psychological therapists working in Maple Service across the five boroughs of North London partnership. They will ensure delivery of high-quality evidence based psychological interventions.
• The post holder will be responsible for providing / ensuring clinical and management supervision to psychology staff in the Maple Service.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the psychology team understand and operate to the requirements of the service’s 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.
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• The post holder will be responsible for providing highly skilled psychological assessment and specialist intervention to highly complex clients of one of the Maternal Mental Health Teams and will be expected to offer advice, consultation and support to other teams as needed.
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• The post holder will guide and support quality improvement, involvement in research and service and carer involvement / co-production.
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
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.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• 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 allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
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 service’s 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.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025
We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with significant experience of perinatal mental health to lead, manage and develop our team of clinical, counselling 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 which deliver high quality evidence based care.
You will join the senior leadership team in SPMHS and be part of a large psychology service across the five boroughs of the NLFT. The wider psychology service can offer you peer support, CPD, specialist supervision and research opportunities and guidance.
Please feel free to contact us for further information about the post.
• The post holder will lead and manage psychological therapists working in Maple Service across the five boroughs of North London partnership. They will ensure delivery of high-quality evidence based psychological interventions.
• The post holder will be responsible for providing / ensuring clinical and management supervision to psychology staff in the Maple Service.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the psychology team understand and operate to the requirements of the service’s 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 Maternal Mental Health 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.
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
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.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• 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 allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
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 service’s 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.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025