Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in perinatal mental health and parent-infant work. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service. We are a secondary care service with a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, family therapy, parent-infant psychotherapy, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers. There is a growing therapy team made up of a consultant psychologist, principal psychologists, clinical and counselling psychologists, a parent-infant psychotherapist, trainees and assistant psychologists.

We work closely with our community partners in midwifery and health visiting, making it a unique role.

A 0.8 FTE 8A/B7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist post to be based within the south hub. This post-holder will join a therapy team who deliver assessments, a range of therapeutic interventions, alongside the multidisciplinary team. We are a community-based team and there will be some expectation to travel for home visits. We would encourage applications from those qualifying soon or those seeking experience in a new field who have applicable knowledge and skills.

The south hub includes Cambridge, Ely, Royston and surrounding areas with an office base in Cambridge. We have a hybrid working model that supports home working alongside joining for meetings and providing services at different sites and service users’ homes.

The Clinical/Counselling Psychologist will contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service to clients of the Perinatal Mental Health Service. The post-holder will conduct psychological assessments and provide therapy, drawing on a range of models, to women and their families. This includes individual, group and dyadic work between parent and infant. They will also supervise, and support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery. The therapist will join a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.

The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

The post-holder will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area serviced by the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

The post holder is part of the Psychological Medicine Service and is able to access peer supervision and support through this team. They will receive supervision, professional support, and guidance from the psychologists within the Perinatal Mental Health Team.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr. Rachel Clarke Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0800 952 0060