Clinical Psychology Lead for MTLCS

We are pleased to offer this opportunity for a 1 year fixed term 8b Principle Clinical Psychologist to experience leading our Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Team. This is a therapy led team of qualified therapists, trainees/assistant therapists and midwives who work together to support women and birthing people during the perinatal period who are experiencing symptoms related to trauma, loss or tokophobia. This post offers a balance between clinical work, supervision, service development, senior management team working, leadership, line management and areas of specialist interest for the service.

We are a close team who work supportively of each other. The successful candidate would be warmly welcomed and supported in this role by both the team and the professional leads and senior managers of the CNWL Perinatal Mental Health Services. We would see this both as a much welcomed support to our MTLCS service for the year contract and an opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to develop their skills and experience in an 8b leadership post., The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service for patients under the care of the Maternal Mental Health Service. Responsibilities will include the provision of specialist psychological assessments and therapies, the provision of specialist risk assessments, and the provision of psychological advice and consultation to others involved in patient care. They will also be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision and governance of psychology services within the service.

The role will encompass managerial, clinical, professional, financial and developmental aspects, requiring the post holder to work in collaboration with local maternity services and the directorate clinical and management team and others to use resources in the most effective way, to free up capacity for clinical work and ensure an optimum level of care is achieved.

As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will be responsible for their own clinical and non-clinical work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies., The Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service launched in 2021 to offer a perinatal mental health service that specifically focuses on supporting women and birthing people who have and are experiencing trauma, loss, complex grief and anxiety related to tokophobia in relation to the perinatal period. The service recently celebrated their third birthday and are now a well established and supportive team of therapists and midwives.

Our services operate Monday-Friday; 9.00am-5.00pm and we are looking for someone to join our MTLCS service full time.

Values

COMPASSION: contribution to a caring and kind environment and recognition that what you do and say can help to improve the lives of others.

RESPECT: acknowledge, respect and value diversity of each individual, recognition of uniqueness.

EMPOWERMENT: continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. The Trust endeavours to support all staff to enable them to develop and grow.

PARTNERSHIP: work closely with others and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and fund our work.