Perinatal clinical or counselling psychologist

Perinatal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist seeking a new challenge?

A full time opportunity has arisen for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Oxfordshire Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team and Maternal Mental Health Service. The right candidate will work across both teams to play a key role in providing evidence-based treatments to perinatal patients across Oxfordshire, as well as supervision, training and consultation.

This is an exciting time to join our friendly specialist team as psychological provision becomes increasingly established across our perinatal services. As part of a group of therapists working across the service, you will contribute to the delivery of a valuable and evolving psychological offer for patients and families, helping to further embed psychological approaches within Oxfordshire specialist perinatal care and supporting the work of the wider multidisciplinary team.

Our ideal candidate will have experience of providing psychological assessment and intervention for adults in the perinatal period with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties. You will have experience of working alongside a range of other professionals to provide psychological advice and consultation regarding formulation and treatment.

We welcome applications from newly or soon-to-be qualified clinical or counselling psychologists.

Main duties of the job

This role is crucial in ensuring that patients get timely access to high quality specialist psychological treatments within the Oxfordshire Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team. As part of the role, you will:

• Provide psychological assessment and intervention for adults with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties presenting in the perinatal period and their families in outpatient, community and inpatient settings as required. This may include the use of digital technology.
• Supervise and support the psychological assessment and interventions provided by assistant and trainee psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment, dependent on experience.
• Provide ad hoc advice, consultation and supervision on patients' psychological care to colleagues and other professionals as delegated by the Principal Clinical Psychologist.

You will excel at working autonomously, managing a caseload and taking responsibility for the governance of your psychological practice within a multidisciplinary team. You will be familiar with utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development.

About us

We offer excellent supervision, CPD and training opportunities to support the role and individual career progression, and have excellent links with the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health that includes Oxford Centre for Cognitive Therapy (OCTC) and Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training and Research, which is hosted by the Trust. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry and Department of Experimental Psychology.

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Qualifications

• Qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with relevant registration or final year trainee within 3 months of qualifying
• Further training relevant to working in perinatal mental health
• Further training/qualifications or experience in supervision, research methodology, staff training, other relevant fields
• Further training/qualifications in specific therapy modalities such as DBT, EMDR, BCT, VIG
• Evidence of CPD since qualifying

Skills

• Complex/specialist methods of psychological assessment, formulation and treatment
• Effective communication of sensitive/complex information
• Multidisciplinary teamwork and consultation
• Teaching/training

Experience

• Psychological assessment, formulation and treatment
• Variety of client groups, presenting problems, settings
• Severe and/or complex mental health care
• Supervision of others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.