Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
17 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills and Abilities
Broad knowledge of specialist mental health services of mothers and their infants and the wider network of mental health services in the NHS.
- Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to Child Protection.
- Skills and Abilities
Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services.
- Skills and Abilities
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies relevant to the perinatal period.
- Skills and Abilities
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professionals colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills and Abilities
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessments, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills and Abilities
Skills creating and delivering presentations and training programmes. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Skills and Abilities
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Knowledge and Experience
Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS, or Doctoral level training in Counselling Psychology (or equivalent - masters level plus completed post qualification training).
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working in a mental health, providing NICE compliant interventions
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of leadership and service development within the NHS.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of physical and mental health conditions and across care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, particularly trauma.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of interdisciplinary working.
- Knowledge and Experience
Meeting the CPD requirements for ongoing accreditation with the relevant professional body, or an alternative agreed by the Principal Psychologist.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of supervising other psychological therapist practitioners within a clinical mental health service.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of staff from a range of clinical backgrounds.
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and Abilities
Experience of leading and carrying out research projects and interpreting data using statistical analyses.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working with severe and complex mental health difficulties during the perinatal period.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of risk assessment and risk management strategies and their application to practice, particularly in the perinatal period.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of the applications of psychological interventions in different contexts.
- Knowledge and Experience
Parent Infant Therapy/VIG/EMDR
- Knowledge and Experience
Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Training
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in Safeguarding children and adult processes and inter-agency work with families.
- Knowledge and Experience
Training or experience of working with ASD / ADHD and neurodiversity.
Job overview
NHFT have an exciting opportunity to join our expanding perinatal psychology pathway. NHFT has an established award-winning Specialist Perinatal Mental Health and Maternal Loss Service which has expanded in line with the Long Term Plan for Mental Health.
We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who has skills, experience and interest in working with women/birthing people experiencing perinatal mental health conditions including post-natal depression, post-partum psychosis and maternal OCD. This is a multi-disciplinary service with lots of opportunities for joint working and service development.
Psychological interventions are provided on both a group and 1.1 basis and include compassion focused therapy, CBT, EMDR and IPT. Both remote and face-to-face interventions are available.
Main duties of the job
The postholder for this position will fulfil the following role:
- Clinical Psychologist
To provide a specialist perinatal psychological intervention to women experiencing or at risk of experiencing moderate to severe mental health conditions in the perinatal period and following maternal loss.
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on women’s’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post-holder will help with for the identifying gaps in the service and assisting with service improvement and developing pathways of care to meet the service needs in line with National and Local strategies and evidence-based best practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will hold a clinical caseload including complex cases, support clinical staff through training and clinical practice, provide clinical supervision and line management to colleagues, be responsible for leading on an area of service development and contributing to the management and operations of psychological interventions within the Perinatal Psychology pathway. The postholder will support the psychology management team and develop clinical expertise in perinatal psychology.
The postholder will provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues; will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust and Service’s policies and procedures. The postholder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service. NHFT welcomes applications from people, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status or pregnancy or maternity status. We would encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. In particular, applications from disabled people (with both visible and non-visible disabilities), people from black and minority ethnic communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) people.
NHFT is committed to building a diverse workforce, ensuring staff are treated fairly at work and ensuring all staff have the learning and development they need on equality in order to undertake their job role. We aim to use monitoring information provided by our staff and by job applicants to ensure that we do not discriminate in employment and to use this information to plan any Positive Action to address inequality. NHFT supports three staff equality networks to help us to develop our equality practice, as well as providing peer support for staff. These are: NHFT Staff Disability & Allies Network / NHFT BME Staff Development Network / NHFT LGBT & Allies Network
Applicant requirements
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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This advert is for Band 7 Clinical Psychologist with Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Kettering, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term - 12 months). The application deadline is 10 Sep 2026.
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