Perinatal Clinical Psychologist

3 months ago


Bournemouth, United Kingdom Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

You will be welcomed by an established, nationally accredited multi-disciplinary team which includes dedicated Peer specialists which is expanding to develop the service to meet the Perinatal Long Term Plan ambitions. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues committed to providing care for women, their partners, and their infants to enable them to live their best life.

To work as an autonomous, independent practitioner responsible for own work and intervention and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies in providing a highly specialist Applied or Clinical Psychology service.

You will have access to training and regular supervision to enable you to achieve your full potential as a specialist clinician. We are an enthusiastic, committed and developing psychological team within the Perinatal service. We have developed good supervision structures to ensure best practices with access to peer supervision, and access to supervision in ACT, IPT, VIG, CAT and EMDR as well as an established DBT consult. We are an enthusiastic team of psychologist with a drive to ensure that psychological approaches are at the heart of the service through formulation, joint working, individual and group interventions in addition through delivering supervision and consultation to perinatal practitioners.

Main duties of the job

To undertake complex assessments and consultancy, providing expert advice to perinatal mental health multi-professional team.

To provide specialist treatment for complex cases.

Plan and prioritise own clinical workload; comment and propose change to policy or service development within the area psychological service.

To provide specialist supervision for trainee clinical psychologists and to provide psychological guidance and supervision for multidisciplinary clinical colleagues.

Alongside Perinatal Psychology Colleagues, develop and encourage an evidence based research culture within the wider clinical team.

About us

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

Dorset HealthCare is in partnership with The Princes Trust to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we offer an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. Please contact to access the support.

Person Specification

Training and qualifications

Essential

Doctoral level training in applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

Desirable

Pre qualification training and qualifications in research methodology or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across full range of care settings including mental health Further specialist training or experience whilst working as a clinical psychologist

Desirable

Experience of application of clinical psychology in physical and mental health setting which may include maternity or CAMHS

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological methods and intervention

Desirable

high level knowledge of theory and practice of at least 2 specialised psychological therapies

Other

Essential

Ability to teach and train others using a variety of complex multi media materials

Desirable

experience of working in a multi cultural framework

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