Principal Clinical Psychologist

2 days ago

Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

The Brockington Parent and Baby Unit (PBU) Team deliver care to expectant and new mothers who are experiencing moderate to severe and complex mental health problems within the perinatal period. The Service is a part of MPFT Perinatal Services which includes South Staffordshire Perinatal and Maternal Mental Health Team, Shropshire Perinatal Community Mental Health Team. There are close working relationships across all Perinatal Services.

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our service to help shape the future of the service for families during this transitional time. If you are creative, motivated, and have strong leadership skills, we would love to hear from you.

You will be responsible for leading the psychology provision within the PBU and will meet regularly with the multi-disciplinary team to co-ordinate the delivery of psychological interventions from other members of the team. You will be joining a supportive and engaged psychology team across perinatal services. You will receive regular supervision and CPD as well as informal support. Across MPFT Perinatal Services there is a strong psychological structure in place comprising of qualified clinical psychologists, psychological therapists and assistant psychologists, all supported by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

MPFT will offer a welcome bonus of 10% of first year salary- at 50% on commencement of employment and 50% following 12 months employment.

Main duties of the job

As the Principal Clinical Psychologist, you will be responsible for the systemic provision of high quality highly specialist perinatal clinical psychology service to women, babies and families of the service teams, within the Brockington Parent and Baby Unit. You will clinically lead psychological provision and contribute to the further development of the clinical psychology service. You will provide specialist assessment, treatment and consultancy services for individuals and their families with moderate to severe mental health difficulties during the perinatal period.

A key part of your role will be to supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systemic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.

Clinical Psychologists play an integrative role in the MDT and are valued and well supported by colleagues. While this post will be primarily focused on the leadership of the psychological care within the service and the direct delivery of psychological support to individual families (both directly and by supervising and supporting MDT colleagues), there will also be scope for delivering training and consultation to partner agencies and being involved with service development.

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