Main area Perinatal Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term Contract for 12 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 325-7255934-SS
Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Horizon House Town Epsom Salary £48,270 - £54,931 includes 5% Fringe HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/07/2025 23:59
Perinatal Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our service in our East Perinatal locality team to cover Maternity leave.
This full time role involves providing individual and systemic support to women and their families within the community. The focus will be on delivering formulation based and NICE recommended psychological interventions to women with moderate to severe mental health difficulties who are pregnant or within 12 months of the postnatal period. We offer a range of therapeutic modalities including CBT, EMDR, Systemic Couples therapy, IPT, CFT, and ACT, and this role would be suitable for anyone interested in transgenerational patterns of trauma, attachment and parent and infant mental health.
You will contribute to the supervision, consultation and training of the MDT who consist of highly skilled, and psychologically minded professionals including Psychiatrists, perinatal mental health nurses, social worker, occupational therapist, peer support workers and nursery nurses.
All candidates should be registered with the HCPC, and eligible for BPS chartered Status. The ability to work across South West Surrey is essential and a car is required.
Please do get in touch to discuss the role and find out more.
Main duties of the job
* To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services.
* To supervise and teach unqualified staff including students.
* Promoting a psychological perspective both within teams and sharing with other colleagues.
* To support team managers/ Clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services.
You will receive regular management and clinical supervision, and reflective practice, and will have support and supervision from the senior psychologist within the team. You will be one of a team of Psychologists who work in the three teams, we regularly meet for reflective practice and specialist supervision and have excellent training opportunities including opportunities to access specialist training such as EMDR, to develop an area of specialist interest and one’s own style of working.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Experience
* Experience of working with people from across the life span with a range of mental health issues and cognitive profiles.
* Experience across a range of psychological models including systemic, behavioural and individual therapeutic
* Interest or experience in working with women and families in the perinatal period
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
* HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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