Senior Assistant Psychologist - Maternal Loss Psychology Service

NHFT has an established Maternal Loss Psychology Service which has expanded in line with the Long-Term Plan for Mental Health.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Assistant Psychologist to join the Maternal Loss Psychology Service to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist. You will be working independently according to a plan agreed with a Qualified Psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. You will assist in clinically related administration, conduct audits, collect statistics, develop audit/and or research projects, teaching and project work.

Psychological interventions are provided on both a group and 1.1 basis and include Compassion Focused Therapy, CBT, EMDR and IPT. Both remote and face-to-face interventions are available.

Following a period of induction and training within the specialist perinatal mental health service, the main clinical work undertaken by the post-holder will be to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional Psychologist.

You will be working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified Psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. You will assist in clinically related administration, conduct audits, collect statistics, develop audit/and or research projects, teaching and project work. Psychological interventions are provided on both a group and 1.1 basis and include compassion focused therapy, CBT, EMDR and IPT. Both remote and face-to-face interventions are available. The post holder will work within Multi-disciplinary team discussions throughout the service and will work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service.

NHFT welcomes applications from people, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status or pregnancy or maternity status.

We would encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. In particular, applications from disabled people (with both visible and non-visible disabilities), people from black and minority ethnic communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) people.

NHFT is committed to building a diverse workforce, ensuring staff are treated fairly at work and ensuring all staff have the learning and development they need on equality in order to undertake their job role.

We aim to use monitoring information provided by our staff and by job applicants to ensure that we do not discriminate in employment and to use this information to plan any Positive Action to address inequality.

NHFT Supports Three Staff Equality Networks To Help Us To Develop Our Equality Practice, As Well As Providing Peer Support For Staff. These Are

NHFT Staff Disability & Allies Network / NHFT BME Staff Development Network / NHFT LGBT & Allies Network

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Kirsty Harris Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 03000 270480

Trudy Robertson - Senior Psychological Therapist

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