Clinical Psychologist in Maternal Mental Health

This highly valued post is available due to staff progression and is offering an exciting opportunity for someone already working at 8A, or ready to progress to this level.

This post offers the prospect of developing highly specialist skills within the small Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) Maternal Mental Health team (MMH).This team offer therapy and support for those experiencing perinatal loss, birth trauma, pregnancy after a loss and tokophobia. MMH works alongside the larger Perinatal team and liaison between the two is substantial. This post would be attractive for someone who values close working with a small psychologically led, trauma informed team.

The development of Specialist Perinatal services over the last 5 years has been considerable and therefore the opportunities for learning and development are wide ranging. The psychological approaches are varied, including CBT for trauma, EMDR, CFT, approaches for traumatic loss and encompass individual, couple and systemic work as appropriate.

The post holder will have the opportunity to undertake training for their own development and to improve service provision. There is also a strong ethos in the team of effecting systemic change and therefore supporting local stakeholder services with training, consultation, liaison and community outreach., The main duties will predominantly be to provide a therapeutic service to MMH clients and offer a specialist perinatal, psychological framework to MDT colleagues and stakeholders.

You will be expected to play a significant role in contributing to service development within the key areas for MMH services which includes systemic change and support for maternity services. The postholder will also be expected to work on improving access and therefore reach out to the local community as part of this.

You would also be encouraged to develop and support appropriate audit, service evaluation and research projects as needs require. The perinatal frame of mind is a vital part of the service, therefore you would be working with individuals, couples, parent-infant relationships and within a whole family approach.

The postholder will be expected to hold a clinical caseload and can develop clinical skills within the Perinatal frame. Clinical supervision of psychological therapy, and MDT colleagues will be an essential part of the role, as well as providing consultation and supervision for the wider team and other stakeholder services according to need and as time allows.You will be expected to regularly supervise trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement and provide essential support to enable a positive placement experience., subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible., Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed