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Clinical Associate Psychologist

East London NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£42,471 - £50,364 per annum Inc HCAs
Profession
Psychologist
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
30 Apr 2025
Contract Type
12 months (Fixed Term)
Posted Date
16 Apr 2025

Job overview

Across North-East London we have been developing new ways of bringing together health and social care professionals with our Voluntary sector and local communities to support the populations we work with. OCEAN is looking to recruit a full time Clinical Associate in Psychology to support the development and delivery of our Maternal Mental Health service

Ocean is a psychology-led service combining psychology and specialist midwifery in supporting women and birthing people who are experiencing moderate-severe mental health difficulties relating to baby loss and birth trauma. Ocean is a community based service, offering a range of interventions including 1:1 psychology, group work and indirect work with maternity services. Ocean is a service that prioritises addressing maternal mental health inequalities and developing inclusive services. A significant part of this role will focus on partnership working and co-production with local community groups to ensure that our service is accessible and relevant to the diverse communities that we serve.

Ocean is based in Vivienne Cohen House in Hackney, and offers support to women and birthing people across East London in the boroughs of City & Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. You must be keen to embrace the privileges of working in diverse boroughs and have experience of working with people with complex mental health difficulties from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds to deliver psychologically informed care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with women and birthing people accessing our service to develop a shared understanding of the issues the person is facing, how they cope and the impact this has on their mental, physical health and well-being. This will involve both 1:1 and group based interventions and will be under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist who will retain clinical responsibility for the work carried out.

In addition to supporting the development of culturally accessible psychological services for women and birthing people, the successful candidate will contribute to screening of new referrals into the service and database management, hold their own supervised case load and contribute to group work where appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached job description for full break down of the role and the person specifications required for this role