Clinical Psychologist / Psychotherapist / CBT Therapist Perinatal MH

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Clinical Psychologist / Psychotherapist / CBT Therapist Perinatal MH

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service are delighted to advertise a fixed term post as a psychological therapist to join our diverse MDT.

We are excited to hear from anyone who may be considering a career in Perinatal Mental Health and who thinks this might be a good opportunity for them. Our service has grown significantly in recent years and expansion to our therapies team and their clinical offer has been a core part of that.

The goal of the service is to support and improve the lives of the families referred to us, and evidence based psychological interventions delivered via a trauma informed approach to both mums/birthing people and their babies is central to us achieving this. Our therapies team are highly valued and well integrated within the whole team.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology/psychological therapy service to women/birthing people, their babies, and the wider family, within the Perinatal Mental Health Service (PNMH). To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.

About us

At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a wide range of mental health, learning disabilities, substance misuse, forensic and specialist services across Sheffield.

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is a major employer and provider of services. Our Service Users, Carers and Staff are central, and our values are important to the delivery of high-quality care. Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at the Trust is expected to live and breathe, and we are proud to live our values each and every day, as they outline how we will act to ensure we provide the very best care to the people we support.

We actively seek out individuals who share these values:

• Working together for service users
• Respect and kindness
• Commitment to quality
• Improving lives

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification, check out our website: Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service | Sheffield Health and Social Care (shsc.nhs.uk) and get in touch if you have any questions at all about the role or if a chat might be helpful.

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation and/or supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
• (Clinical Psychologists only) Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (e.g. SPSS)
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in Perinatal Mental Health Services.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two relevant specialised psychological therapies.
• Understanding related to trauma and attachment difficulties and the impacts of these in clinical practice and for people's lives.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and policy pertaining to service delivery (e.g. safeguarding).

Training and qualifications

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS.
• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC OR Post-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
• Accreditation with the BABCP for CBT (or a commitment to gain accreditation within one year of starting the post).
• Qualified & registered Psychotherapist (e.g. Art therapist / CAT psychotherapist / IPT therapist / Family therapist).
• Recognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist, and Provisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT.
• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology/psychological therapy.
• Additional, post-qualification training in Perinatal Mental health and related fields.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across a range of settings.
• Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties.
• Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of this and their highly emotive and distressing difficulties.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups presenting with difficulties within a range of clinical severities.
• Evidence of being able to work effectively in teams.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working in Perinatal Mental Health (or related) Services.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working directly with trauma and attachment difficulties and their impacts.
• Experience in working with complex safeguarding situations.

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust