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This is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in perinatal mental health and parent-infant work.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and knowledgeable person to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service. We are a secondary care service with a growing therapy team. Our multi-disciplinary team, which includes Occupational Therapists, Nursery Nurses, Psychologists, Parent-Infant Psychotherapists, Family Therapists and Psychiatrists, is county wide operating out of two hubs. We work closely with our community partners in midwifery and health visiting, making it a unique role.

This B7/8A Clinical/Counselling Psychologist post will be based within the north hub. This post-holder will join a therapy team who deliver assessments, a range of therapeutic interventions, alongside the multidisciplinary team. We are a community-based team and there will be some expectation to travel for home visits. The post-holder will also provide psychological and perinatal expertise to the Perinatal Mental Health Team and community partners. We would encourage applications from those qualifying soon or those seeking experience in a new field who have applicable knowledge and skills.

The north hub includes Peterborough, Huntingdon and Fenland area with an office base in Peterborough. Hybrid working is feasible in this job role.

The Clinical/Counselling Psychologist will contribute to the provision of a high-quality specialist perinatal psychology service to clients of the Perinatal Mental Health Service. The post-holder will conduct psychological assessments and provide therapy, drawing on a range of models, to women and their families. This will include individual, group and dyadic work between parent and infant.

They will also supervise, and support work provided by other clinical members of the team, as well as providing training and consultation to the wider pathway, working alongside professional colleagues in health visiting and midwifery. The therapist will join a multi-disciplinary team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, and support workers.

The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

The post-holder will be expected to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area serviced by the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. Working with mothers, babies and other family members and other team members to provide specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological test, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care
2. To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural, and biological factors
3. To assist the Perinatal Mental Health Service team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information, which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed to mothers and families
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence based psychological interventions for users of the Perinatal Mental Health Service in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
5. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan
6. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with hospital and inter-agency policies and procedures
7. To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about the relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment
8. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
9. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings
10. To offer a systemic, reflective, and psychological perspective within the team around our understanding of families as well as team and organisational dynamics.
1. To significantly contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, and development of the psychological services aspect of the perinatal mental health pathway, operational policies, and procedures, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle.You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

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