Psychology Lead – Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Services (SPMHS)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will lead and manage psychological therapists working in community perinatal services across the five boroughs of North London partnership. They will ensure delivery of high-quality evidence based psychological interventions.

The postholder will be responsible for providing / ensuring highly specialist clinical supervision and management supervision to psychology staff in the community mental health service.

The post holder will provide advice, consultation, teaching, training and supervision to other health and social care staff working in the service and in other associated services as appropriate.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the psychology team understand and operate to the requirements of the services operational policy and strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent and trauma informed care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.

The postholder will play a key strategic role in expanding and developing service provision in line with national guidelines and local priorities and they will actively contribute to the evaluation of clinical services through audit and governance.

The post holder will be responsible for providing highly skilled psychological assessment and specialist intervention to highly complex clients of one of the community teams and will be expected to offer advice, consultation and support to other teams as needed.

The post holder will guide and support quality improvement, involvement in research and service and carer involvement / co-production.

The post holder will be responsible for developing the psychology workforce - leading on recruitment, identifying training needs and managing gaps in service.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
• Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post

Skills/ Abilities

Essential

• Highly developed skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in perinatal mental health including challenging behaviours.
• Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Substantial post-qualification experience working with the client group of the post or a related client group.
• Experience of the management of qualified applied psychologists and/or psychological therapy staff
• Experience of leading and contributing to service development

Desirable

• Experience of involving service users and carers in the co-production of services

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Pancras Hospital

London

NW1 0PE

Employer's website

https://www.candi.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)