Band 5 Perinatal Loss pathway Assistant psychologist

Job overview

Assistant Psychologist - Band 5

Full time 1.0 WTE - permanent role

Are you passionate about ensuring that women and baby have access to high quality and evidence-based mental health and psychological care?

Maternal mental health is a life-saving, crucial and growing area of practice. Bringing together some of the most passionate and skilled health professionals in the NHS.  10% of women develop a mental health problem during pregnancy or within the immediate period after the birth of their baby and untreated can have a devastating impact on the women affected and their families. In the UK, mental health in pregnant and post-natal women has previously often gone unrecognised, undiagnosed and untreated.

Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust’s  Specialist perinatal mental health service work is a multidisciplinary team that is meeting the specific needs of ante and post-natal women with a high quality multi-disciplinary service and linking with the full range of health and social care professionals including GPs, health visitors and midwives as well as gynaecology, obstetrics etc.

The service is a dynamic, exciting collaboration across three commissioning groups and three maternity hospitals and a range of community settings.

Main duties of the job

Our staff pride themselves on being innovative, creative and responsive to meet the needs of our service users. We are well known for providing a positive working atmosphere and encourage people to join our team who are team players, supportive, resilient, confident and enthusiastic.

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who can work confidently on their own as well as supporting the team. Good communication, problem solving skills and an interest in Perinatal Mental health are essential in this role.

You are required to be a driver with access to a car that can be used for business purposes. An ability to demonstrate the Trust’s vision and values in practice is beneficial.

Visits to the team or questions are encouraged to appreciate this exciting role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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