Overview
We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Psychologist to join our friendly and compassionate Maternal Mental Health Service, part of our wider Cheshire and Merseyside Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service. It is an exciting time to join the service as we deliver the NHS Long Term Plan to improve Maternal mental health outcomes.
The Maternal Mental Health Service provides specialist psychological and midwifery support for women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe psychological distress in the context of birth trauma, perinatal loss, fear of childbirth/tokophobia and/or separation at birth due to safeguarding concerns. We have a number of workstreams across our service, focused on improving Maternal mental health outcomes for marginalised communities and developing culturally responsive pathways. Working under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist this role will focus on supporting the psychological care of clients within the service. The role will also contribute to a range of audit, research and project work within the service, which includes our inequalities workstream.
Responsibilities
* Support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all relevant sectors; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the supervising qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
* Assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
* Work on a one-to-one and/or group basis in a highly emotive atmosphere, maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times.
* Demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their careers, in line with the Culture of Compassionate Care.
* Embrace the core values of the organisation and promote safe practice, value the aims of service users, work in partnership and offer meaningful choice, be optimistic about meaningful change and value social inclusion.
Context and Environment
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services, including high secure mental health facilities. We are committed to delivering “perfect care”—safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient—and to organisational and service transformation to improve quality and reduce costs.
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