Fixed Term Psychological Therapist - Perinatal Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term part time therapist post with Shropshire Community Perinatal Team. You will be an experienced and accredited Psychological Therapist who will be part of an MDT team delivering treatment to clients with moderate to severe mental health difficulties within the perinatal period.
We are a specialist service that strives to deliver an excellent standard of care to expectant and new mothers who are experiencing severe and complex mental health problems. The team is multi-disciplinary and works directly with women and their family's providing assessment, interventions and support for pregnant women and women within the postnatal period with a range of mental health needs.
You will join a multidisciplinary team who are innovative and have a patient centred approach at the heart of their delivery. The team work with partners both within and outside of the Trust, with close links with Maternity Services, Maternal Mental Health Services, Health Visiting, NHS Talking Therapies, and other mental health services.
The PMHT covers Telford and Shropshire area. The team base is in Bridgnorth, and we use other MPFT facilities across the county. Blended working options are centred around clinical demand., To be responsible for the autonomous provision of specialist psychological therapy to women and their babies who are in receipt of specialist perinatal mental health services. To complete the following:
+ Complex assessments and psychological formulations of mental health.
+ Consultation and advice to professionals across community settings.
+ Undertake risk assessment and risk management, to include risks to the unborn child. Providing advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk management.
+ Provide evidence based psychological interventions both individually and within a group setting.
+ To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner.
+ To contribute to service development projects
+ To contribute to and facilitate MDT sessions such as Learning and Development slots.
+ Use of research initiatives to further develop and inform the service.
+ Proactively and successfully work with partner agencies., Our collective agreed vision, towards which we all strive, is that all women, babies, and families in Shropshire have easy access to the very best care for their mental health during pregnancy and postnatally
Our collective agreed values are:
+ Be patient and child centred, understanding and meeting individual and population needs, with high quality, evidence based and innovative approaches to care of patients, babies, and their families.
+ Work flexibly, collaboratively, transparently, and honestly with women, families, and others involved in their care, with respect and trust for each other's experience, knowledge, skills, and contributions.
+ Support each other in delivering and continuously improving care to our whole population, nurturing our empowerment, enthusiasm, and motivation.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by
· Supporting your career development and progression.
· Excellent NHS Pension scheme
· Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
· Options for flexible working
· Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
· Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
· If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
· Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
· Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
· Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
· Free car parking at all trust sites
· Free flu vaccination every year