Please refer to the job description and person specification for a detailed description of the main duties of the role. In summary Leadership & Management Provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological provision within the Perinatal and Maternal Loss Pathway. You will lead and professionally manage psychological staff, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, workforce development, and effective use of resources. The role includes contributing to service demand management, pathway oversight, business planning, and clinical governance arrangements.
You will play a central role in shaping the long-term strategic direction of the pathway and embedding a culture of reflective practice, learning, and continuous improvement. Clinical Expertise Deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for women and families presenting with complex perinatal mental health difficulties, including trauma and maternal loss. You will hold clinical responsibility for complex and high-risk cases, providing expert consultation and specialist advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, partner agencies, and external stakeholders to ensure safe, effective, and trauma-informed care. Service Development, Evaluation & Research Lead on service innovation, quality improvement initiatives, and pathway development to enhance outcomes and reduce inequalities in access to perinatal mental health care.
You will design and oversee audit, evaluation, and research activity within the service, ensuring findings inform practice development and commissioning priorities. The role includes contributing to research governance processes and promoting evidence-based, outcome-focused service delivery. System Collaboration & Partnership Working Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries, including maternity services, primary care, social care, voluntary sector providers, and commissioning bodies. You will provide psychological leadership within multi-agency forums, supporting integrated care pathways and strengthening system-wide approaches to perinatal and maternal loss support.
Education, Workforce Development & Supervision Provide high-quality clinical and professional supervision to psychologists, trainees, and other MDT staff in line with professional and regulatory standards. Contribute to recruitment, appraisal, and workforce development processes. The role includes delivering training programmes, enhancing psychological skills within the wider workforce, and contributing to doctoral-level teaching and research supervision in partnership with academic institutions.