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Job overview
The Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service are delighted to advertise a permanent post as a psychological therapist to join our diverse MDT.
We are excited to hear from anyone who may be considering a career in Perinatal Mental Health with a therapeutic background, who would like to contribute towards enhancing the lives of birthing people and their families thinks this might be a good opportunity for them. Our service has grown significantly in recent years and expansion to our therapies team and their clinical offer has been a core part of that.
The work would involve providing evidence based psychological interventions delivered via a trauma informed approach to birthing people and their babies. Our therapies team are highly valued and well integrated within the whole team.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist psychological therapy service to women/birthing people, their babies, and the wider family, within the Perinatal Mental Health Service (PNMH). To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
For a full list of duties, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification, check out our website: Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service | Sheffield Health and Social Care (shsc.nhs.uk) and get in touch if you have any questions at all about the role or if a chat might be helpful.
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
Experience
Essential
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across a range of settings.
- • Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties.
- • Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of this and their highly emotive and distressing difficulties.
- • Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups presenting with difficulties within a range of clinical severities.
- • Evidence of being able to work effectively in teams.
- • Experience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
- • Experience of working in Perinatal Mental Health (or related) Services.
- • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- • Experience of working directly with trauma and attachment difficulties and their impacts.
- • Experience in working with complex safeguarding situations.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- • Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- • Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Skills in providing consultation and/or supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
- • (Clinical Psychologists only) Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (e.g. SPSS)
Desirable
- • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in Perinatal Mental Health Services.
- • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two relevant specialised psychological therapies.
- • Understanding related to trauma and attachment difficulties and the impacts of these in clinical practice and for people’s lives.
- • Knowledge of relevant legislation and policy pertaining to service delivery (e.g. safeguarding).
Training and qualifications
Essential
- Training and qualifications Essential • Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS. • Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC OR • Post-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy • Accreditation with the BABCP for CBT (or a commitment to gain accreditation within one year of starting the post). • Qualified & registered Psychotherapist (e.g. Art therapist / CAT psychotherapist / IPT therapist / Family therapist). OR • Recognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist, and • Provisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT
Desirable
- • Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology/psychological therapy.
- • Additional, post-qualification training in Perinatal Mental health and related fields.
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This advert is for Clinical Psychologist / Psychotherapist / CBT Therapist Perinatal MH with Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust in Argyll House. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is pro rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (or secondment). The application deadline is 28 Aug 2026.
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