# Bd 7/8a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist- Perinatal > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/bd-78a-highly-specialist-clinicalcounselling-psychologist-perinatal/c2ea9d50-86b9-421f-b43d-7103b7511818 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/bd-78a-highly-specialist-clinicalcounselling-psychologist-perinatal/c2ea9d50-86b9-421f-b43d-7103b7511818.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Little Bromwich Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term) - **Employment type:** Part time - 32 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-02T08:50:40.375Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Solihull_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Perinatal_Mental_Health/Perinatal_Mental_Health-v8229638 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8229638?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings **Desirable** - Experience of working within a multicultural framework. ### Skills **Essential** - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists. **Desirable** - 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 **Essential** - 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 **Desirable** - Experience of working with mothers and their infants, couples and/or families; Experience of working with women with perinatal mental illness. ### Training and Qualifications **Essential** - 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** - Training/experience in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice related to perinatal mental health and/or infant mental health ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539313) - [person specification (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539314) - [everyday behaviours guide (pdf, 159.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2415) - [recruitment fraud and fees notice (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3094) - [artificial intelligence (ai) statement (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3095) - [recruitment equality, diversity and inclusion statement (pdf, 288.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3096) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.