Perinatal Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our service in our East Perinatal locality team to cover Maternity leave.

This full time role involves providing individual and systemic support to women and their families within the community.  The focus will be on delivering formulation based and NICE recommended psychological interventions to women with moderate to severe mental health difficulties who are pregnant or within 12 months of the postnatal period.  We offer a range of therapeutic modalities including CBT, EMDR, Systemic Couples therapy, IPT, CFT, and ACT, and this role would be suitable for anyone interested in transgenerational patterns of trauma, attachment and parent and infant mental health.

You will contribute to the supervision, consultation and training of the MDT who consist of highly skilled, and psychologically minded professionals including Psychiatrists, perinatal mental health nurses, social worker, occupational therapist, peer support workers and nursery nurses.

All candidates should be registered with the HCPC, and eligible for BPS chartered Status. The ability to work across South West Surrey is essential and a car is required.

Please do get in touch to discuss the role and find out more.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services.
• To supervise and teach unqualified staff including students.
• Promoting a psychological perspective both within teams and sharing with other colleagues.
• To support team managers/ Clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services.

You will receive regular management and clinical supervision, and reflective practice, and will have support and supervision from the senior psychologist within the team.  You will be one of a team of Psychologists who work in the three teams, we regularly meet for reflective practice and specialist supervision and have excellent training opportunities including opportunities to access specialist training such as EMDR, to develop an area of specialist interest and one’s own style of working.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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