Senior Clinical Psychologist – Perinatal Mental Health Services

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. About Us EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites. We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex. EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020. Our Vision "To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care". Our Purpose "We care for people every day. What we do together, matters". Our Values We Care We Learn We Empower Job overview We are pleased to offer a full time Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist 8a post in EPUT Essex Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS). The service delivers high quality support and intervention to mothers, their infants and their families. PMHS consists of five perinatal hubs with a staff mix comprising of Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology as well as MDT skill mix of Nursery Nursing, OT and social work. There are strong pathways and relationships with maternity, health visiting, secondary care mental health services and primary care services to provide more streamlined, timely and effective care for mothers in the perinatal period. The Perinatal Mental Health Service provides maternal mental health and wellbeing support to mothers and their infants across Essex. Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood are recognised as a time when mental health difficulties and relationship stress can occur. Psychological interventions which are specific, effective, and valued by women can support them with such difficulties; reducing distress and health care costs, whilst increasing physical and psychological wellbeing. Main duties of the job This role will provide highly specialist assessment and intervention to mothers and their infants. The role will provide evidence-based perinatally informed psychological therapies to mothers through pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period up to the infant age of 2 years. Delivery of supervision and consultation to the PMHS as well as supporting the ongoing service development of both perinatal psychology and the perinatal service. Lead on pathway and interface development with local stakeholders and partner agencies. Provide clinical leadership and support to the PMHS and support the development of junior psychologists and non-psychology staff. Person specification Qualifications Professional and doctoral training in Clinical/Counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society. Knowledge High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Experience Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including community & primary care. Experience of supporting staff wellbeing, leading initiatives to support staff with managing stressful and challenging cases. Equal Opportunities Employer Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services.

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