Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

The Suffolk Perinatal Community Mental Health Team (SPCMHT) is seeking to recruit a Principal Psychologist, to job share with their existing Principal Psychologist, leading the perinatal therapies team. The SPCMHT is a county wide service working with pregnant women and those with babies up to one year old, and some women who experience pregnancy loss. We have a large therapy team offering clinical psychology, specialist CBT, EMDR, systemic and parent infant psychotherapy interventions. The post holder would oversee the therapies team, working closely with the senior leadership team to offer clinical leadership in the service. The role will have both clinical and management responsibilities.

The SPCMHT has bases in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds and works closely with local maternity services. It is part of the wider NSFT perinatal collaborative including the Norfolk Perinatal Service and the Kingfisher MBU.

The role is supported by the trust wide consultant psychologist for perinatal services.

Main duties of the job

Experiences of working with mothers and babies would be helpful for this role. In addition, awareness of trauma informed care and working with wider systems would be beneficial. We are able to support some CPD as part of your development. There is a wider group of perinatal principal psychologists within NSFT to offer peer support, and we have good relationships with other perinatal teams in the east of England region.

The role will involve travel across the county and working in a mixture of clinical bases and patient homes. Expert clinical supervision is available.

About us

NSFT provides a range of high quality perinatal mental health services across Norfolk and Suffolk and is currently the clinical lead trust for the provider collaborative. We have a well-established team in Suffolk with a well staff therapies team, with a mix of skills. This is an ideal opportunity for someone to progress to a principal psychologist role as they will be job sharing with an experienced other.

For am informal chat or to find out more please contact: Dr Melanie White - Consultant Clinical Psychologist,

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interviews are yet to be confirmed, and candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Further post-qualification, post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

• Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
• Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
• Teaching, training and delivering clinical supervision.
• Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge.
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.

Skills

• Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
• High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies

Knowledge

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. neurodiversity, personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
• Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy.

Other

• Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£64,455 to £74,896 a yeargross per annum pro rata