Job summary: Are you a qualified clinical psychologist who would like to join a busy, compassionate team in an exciting development post? We will provide you with training and support to move from Band 7 to 8A within an agreed time frame.
Our service is at a really important stage, having received additional funding via the NHS Long-Term Plan, allowing us to significantly expand our team. We now have a great development opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist preceptor to join our North Hub, Specialist Community Perinatal Team.
The Perinatal CMHT team is made up of three Hubs, and the postholder would work in the North hub, covering the North Lancashire and South Cumbria footprint. They would work closely with psychology colleagues across the Hub teams and within the Mother & Baby Unit. The post would require travel across the Hub and more widely within the service footprint on occasion.
We aim to provide an excellent comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health Service for the women of Lancashire and Cumbria by effective multidisciplinary integrated team working and ensuring effective prevention through:
* Intervening earlier from 32 weeks pregnancy and up to 2 years postnatally.
* Ongoing training and supervision of professionals from multiple disciplines.
* Improving pathways and processes for mothers, their families, and professionals.
* Delivering a multi-disciplinary specialist perinatal mental health service.
Main duties of the job: We can offer you lots of opportunities for training and the ongoing development of clinical and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment. We would support you to attain the competencies required to transition from Band 7 to the 8a role, within a specified timeframe.
* As this is a significant expansion for the service, you would join us at a key time, meaning you would have a significant influence on our service development. We would welcome applicants who have a special interest in this vulnerable client group and who have the ability to adapt and change to meet the needs of the service and the service users.
For further details/informal visits, contact Jo Gorry, Lead Psychologist for LSCFT Perinatal Service, on 07971671346 or email jo.gorry@lscft.nhs.uk.
About us: Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part-time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential:
* The Graduate Basis for Registration (further to completion of an honours degree in psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, or completion of the Society's Qualifying examination, or completion of a Society accredited Conversion Course).
* Completion of Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology.
* Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
Knowledge Essential:
* Well-developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of perinatal clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post-qualification study, training, and supervised experience.
* Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the psychological formulation and implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems.
Experience Essential:
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group-based intervention with clients across the full range of care settings.
* At least one year's relevant post-qualification experience and training, enabling the post-holder to provide supplementary supervision to clinical psychology trainees.
Skills Essential:
* High-level interpersonal skills necessary to obtain and complex, sensitive or contentious information in emotionally charged and extremely emotive settings.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Keyboard skills sufficient to enter data/write reports.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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