Senior Assistant Psychologist

1 week ago


Lincoln, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

There has never been a more exciting time to join the Perinatal Trauma & Loss Care Service (P-TLC), as we continue to grow and expand our pathways. We are seeking an enthusiastic and passionate Assistant Psychologist with a special interest in supporting women and birthing people who have experienced perinatal trauma and / or loss. We are seeking to enhance our service offer with an experienced Assistant Psychologist (B5) with previous experience working directly with adults experiencing mental health difficulties and distress. Under the supervision of a clinical Psychologist the post holder will hold an autonymous caseload and work 1:1 with these clients. The post holder will also lead on group interventions alongside our Peer Support Workers.

P-TLC is a psychologically driven service, providing countywide individual, group, and systemic support to people who have experienced perinatal trauma and loss. P-TLC Service prides itself on being a collaborative, innovative and supportive team to work in. We are a team motivated to provide the best service & advocate for trauma informed care.

We have links with the University of Lincoln midwifery and medical schools, and a close relationship with the School of Psychology including the DClinPsy. We promote CPD and have excellent learning opportunities.

Under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, the post holder will contribute to the provision of highly specialist, co-produced, psychological input to women who have experienced loss and trauma through their maternity experience.

Under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, the post holder will autonomously offer specialist psychological assessments, formulation and delivery of interventions to the communities we serve. The post holder will also deliver specialist trauma-informed training to midwives, trainee medics and other agencies in the development of psychologically informed maternity care.

The role is varied with opportunity for direct therapeutic intervention, MDT consultation as well as group work and training.

The post holders will have the opportunity to be part of the ongoing service development, pathway creation, service evaluation & audit

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

To provide one to one sessions of assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation for mental health, emotional and/ or relational difficulties to women and birthing people in the community.

To assist in the design of and take a lead on co-ordinating and providing group therapy intervention packages to service users.

To undertake psychological assessment, utilising psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, questionaires, rating scales, and structured observations.

Carry out semi-structured interviews as part of the history taking procedure with the client, family members and other agencies involved with the client.

Analyse the results of these assessments and develop an appropriate treatment package under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist. Provide this treatment package as appropriate.

Plan and prioritise work effectively in order to combine a clinical caseload with service commitments, including audits, research, training and supervision commitments. Schedule appointments, room booking and booking test equipment.

To work collaboratively with a Multidisciplinary team to inform meeting the clients Psychological needs more widely including birth planning with midwifery for pregnant service users.

To communicate complex and sensitive information empathically, using language which is appropriate to the client group

Be able to wor



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