Senior Clinical Psychologist - Perinatal Mental Health Service

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. Also:

• 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

Our strategic objectives

• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, experienced and enthusiastic Senior Clinical Psychologist to join EPUT's perinatal psychological services for mothers, birthing people and their infants. The Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) provides high quality maternal mental health and wellbeing support and intervention to mothers, birthing people and their infants across Essex.

PMHS are pleased to offer an 18 month Fixed Term contract for a 0.6wte 8a Senior Clinical Psychologist post. PMHS consists of five perinatal hubs across Essex, with a staff mix comprising of Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology and specialist roles such as nursery nursing, social work and OT. PMHS works with a range of services to support a mother's emotional wellbeing including maternity and health visiting, primary and secondary care mental health services. PMHS aims to provide streamlined, timely and effective care for mothers and birthing people in the perinatal period. This post will be in South East Locality (Southend, Castlepoint & Rochford). There are opportunities to shape a role to meet part time and flexible working arrangements.

Main duties of the job

• Providing specialist assessment and intervention to mothers and birthing people who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties in the perinatal period.
• To provide consultation to the perinatal staff, supporting psychological understanding and formulation of complex mental health presentations.
• To bring clinical leadership to the perinatal hub team, supporting team and operational managers in the delivery of a high quality perinatal mental health service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional and doctoral training in Clinical/Counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.

Desirable criteria

• Post qualifying trauma training in evidence based approach e.g EMDR or TF-CBT

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Solid understanding of significant mental health presentations

Desirable criteria

• Understanding and awareness of perinatal mental health presentations

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working in MDT

Desirable criteria

• Good experience of clinical leadership

Experience

Essential criteria

• Solid experience of supervising qualified psychological therapies staff

Desirable criteria

• Good experience of consultation with MDT staff

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply.