We are looking for a skilled and compassionate senior clinical psychologist to provide specialist psychological support, and consultation to enhance the wellbeing of maternity staff at North Bristol NHS Trust, as part of our award-winning Trust-wide Staff Psychology Service. The Staff Psychology Team provides a range of responsive and proactive support to staff. The service has a particular ethos in supporting relational and team wellbeing, recognising that resilience is often more helpfully seen as being fostered by connections between us, not just within us. Staff Psychology already provides substantial input into the Women's and Children's Division. This new post reflects the demand, and the need to increase our capacity to provide tailored support, from preventative, responsive to specialist. The post holder will be involved in developing specific interventions and support to midwives and other maternity staff, to enable them to manage the pressures of their work, and to help them to give care in a psychologically and trauma informed informed way. The new postholder will provide senior psychological input to support the overall direction of psychology within Women and Children's and within the Staff Psychology services, and to enable us to extend the reach and nature of the support we offer. Alongside the senior staff psychologists within the staff psychology team, the post holder will have close working relationships with the NICU psychologist as well as WACH leads.,
* To provide high quality, specialist interventions to maternity staff at North Bristol NHS Trust, on an individual and group/ team level, as needed and as guided by priorities within the division.
* To develop and deliver training to support the psychological wellbeing of maternity staff and as part of fostering the culture of care.
* To be responsive to staff needs using high levels of expertise following adverse events, as well as wider support to develop a positive team culture including interventions to foster psychological safety and peer compassion.
* To have skills in assessing and managing psychological risk, and supporting non psychology colleagues within this as needed.
* To build strong relationships with key stakeholders within Women and Childrens Division, Mental Health Liaison, Occupational Health, Staff Experience, as well as relevant external organisations.
* To further the knowledge and expertise in supporting this group of staff, by learning about good practice and research in this area.
* To provide clinical supervision to more junior clinical psychology colleagues and have flexibility for cross cover as required
* To take a consultancy and advisory role as part of preventing, improving and sustaining emotional and team wellbeing of staff at North Bristol NHS Trust.
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
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