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Job requirements
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Skills
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Knowledge and Experience
Significant post qualified experience of working as Psychologist. Experience with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
- Training and Qualifications
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996; HCPC registration) OR If not yet qualified, close to completion of a DClinPsy or similar qualification.
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Skills
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies in specific difficult to treat groups; Knowledge of the long term impact of maternal mental health issues on the infant, the mother infant relationship and the wider family
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working with mothers and their infants, couples and/or families; Experience of working with women with perinatal mental illness.
- Training and Qualifications
Training/experience in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice related to perinatal mental health and/or infant mental health
Job overview
Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Band 7/8a) Perinatal Mental Health Service - Community post - Birmingham. 12 month fixed term contract. 32 hours/week
- To provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service within the Community Perinatal Mental Health Team to address the psychological needs of perinatal patients.
- To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering supervision, advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To utilise skills for clinical and service audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Main duties of the job
The main clinical work undertaken is to provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for mothers and their babies and families in the community. You will work with women with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, including birth trauma, parent-infant work and OCD and depression. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to our service wide group programme.
The role will also involve contributing to the supervision of psychology trainees or psychology assistants working in the community setting. The post holder will act as a member of the MDT, attend meetings and offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to team colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
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 Bd 7/8a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist- Perinatal with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 19 Oct 2026.
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