Job summary
Perinatal Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in our Community Perinatal Mental Health Team. Newham Perinatal Mental Health Team is a specialist mental health team that supports women and birthing people in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health difficulties using a multi-disciplinary approach. The team is recruiting for a permanent 0.5 WTE (two and a half days) band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the psychology service within this dynamic team. The successful post holder will be passionate about perinatal mental health and delivering interventions including assessments, one to one and group therapy. The post holder will work closely with psychology and non-psychology colleagues within the team and be part of a wider trust wide perinatal psychology network. You should have a keen interest in promoting equality and diversity within psychology, an awareness of the borough we work in and the challenges of existing health inequalities.
If you are interested in applying for this role, please contact:
Dr Danielle D'Mello, Counselling Psychologist, Newham Psychology Lead for Complex Trauma, Crisis, Perinatal and Trauma Informed Care
danielle.d'mello@nhs.net
Or
Petra Harding, Operational Team Lead, PMHT
petra.harding1@nhs.net
Interviews for this post will be held on 7th September
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Offer psychological assessments and interventions, including one to one and group
- Contribute to the development of psychology within the PMHT, in line with the boundaries of your role.
- Contribute to psychological, trauma informed working with service users in the team.
- Liaise and consult with interfacing services, including Newham Talking Therapies, Secondary Care Psychological Services, Home Treatment Team and Acute services.
- Maintain continuous professional development in line with the expectations of your role and accreditation
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS OR appropriate Psychotherapy qualification OR CBT qualification Registration with the Health Professionals Council or other appropriate regulatory body.
Desirable
- Perinatal mental health
- Brief Interventions
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Eye movement desensitsation and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Experience
Essential
- Experience of practicing as a psychological therapist with adult service users in the NHS
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy in a time limited context.
- Experience of offering psychological therapy to clients in the perinatal period
- Experience of assessing and offering psychological therapy with clients with a range of presentations, moderate-severe mental health difficulties, which may include psychosis, personality disorder, PTSD, OCD, depression and anxiety.
- Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population.
- Experience of working within the principles of trauma informed care.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Communication & Relationship skills: Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance. Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers.
- Cultural awareness and competence: Understanding and awareness of the potential impact of racism, discrimination & disadvantage on the mental health of Black and ethnic minority people. Able to provide a cultural competent service. Ability to reflect critically on one's own identity. Commitment to examining and challenging one's own biases and developing inclusive services and work places. Experience of working with interpreters.
- Analytical & judgemental skills: Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations. Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation. Able to provide brief therapeutic interventions. Awareness of government frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health, e.g. NHS Long Term Plan.
- Physical skills: Basic keyboard skills. Information resources: Able to record and report on as required clinical information. Competent in use of basic IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet.
- Flexibility: Able to innovate on the basis of theoretical knowledge.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS OR appropriate Psychotherapy qualification OR CBT qualification Registration with the Health Professionals Council or other appropriate regulatory body.
Desirable
- Perinatal mental health
- Brief Interventions
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Eye movement desensitsation and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Experience
Essential
- Experience of practicing as a psychological therapist with adult service users in the NHS
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy in a time limited context.
- Experience of offering psychological therapy to clients in the perinatal period
- Experience of assessing and offering psychological therapy with clients with a range of presentations, moderate-severe mental health difficulties, which may include psychosis, personality disorder, PTSD, OCD, depression and anxiety.
- Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population.
- Experience of working within the principles of trauma informed care.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Communication & Relationship skills: Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance. Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers.
- Cultural awareness and competence: Understanding and awareness of the potential impact of racism, discrimination & disadvantage on the mental health of Black and ethnic minority people. Able to provide a cultural competent service. Ability to reflect critically on one's own identity. Commitment to examining and challenging one's own biases and developing inclusive services and work places. Experience of working with interpreters.
- Analytical & judgemental skills: Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations. Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation. Able to provide brief therapeutic interventions. Awareness of government frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health, e.g. NHS Long Term Plan.
- Physical skills: Basic keyboard skills. Information resources: Able to record and report on as required clinical information. Competent in use of basic IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet.
- Flexibility: Able to innovate on the basis of theoretical knowledge.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
