Clinical Psychology Lead for Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Clinical Psychologist to lead our Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing clinical leadership, supervision, and management to the team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality psychological services to women and birthing people experiencing trauma, loss, or tokophobia.

Main Duties

The post-holder will be responsible for:

  • Providing clinical leadership and supervision to the team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality psychological services.
  • Developing and implementing psychological therapy pathways between the Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service and other local services.
  • Providing operational leadership and management to the staff within the service, in collaboration with the MTLCS Lead Midwife for NWL.
  • Ensuring psychological and trauma-informed perspectives form part of service development and delivery.
  • Providing data reporting on psychological interventions and their outcomes within the service to managers, commissioners, and to NHSE at regular intervals as required.

About Us

The Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service is a perinatal mental health service that specifically focuses on supporting women and birthing people who have and are experiencing trauma, loss, complex grief, and anxiety related to tokophobia in relation to the perinatal period. We are a close team who work supportively of each other, and we would welcome a Clinical Psychologist to join our team and contribute to our mission to provide high-quality psychological services to women and birthing people.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will have:

  • A postgraduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
  • Post-doctoral qualification or training in an evidence-based treatment for trauma, such as CBT for PTSD or EMDR.
  • Experience of working with grief, trauma, and phobias, and of facilitating/co-facilitating psychological therapy groups.
  • Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision, and of working as a qualified Psychologist for a minimum of three years.
  • Experience of working with women in the perinatal period as a qualified clinician, and of promoting inclusion and diversity and enhancing equity and access to services.


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