Job summary
The North London NHS Foundation Trust Perinatal Services comprise of the Maternal Mental Health Service, Maple and the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS).
The Maple Service is for people whose trauma symptoms have a moderate to severe impact on their mental health. This may be due to a traumatic birth experience, pregnancy loss, neonatal death, or the loss of a baby as a result of social care procedures due to safeguarding concerns. The trauma may also exist prior to conception, e.g. when tokophobia prevents a woman from achieving a wanted pregnancy. The service has been running since 2021 and is a service which primarily offers psychological therapy.
The aim of the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS) team is to detect, prevent and treat perinatal mental health needs to improve the experience of pregnancy and the two years postpartum for service users, the babies and their families. The service has been running since 2017 and delivers care utilising skills from a multi disciplinary staff group.
The North London NHS Foundation Trust Perinatal Services provide care across five boroughs in the North Central London area; Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey.
Main duties of the job
Maple and SPMHS operate across 3 clinical sub-teams:
- South Team (Camden & Islington):Team base: First Floor, West Wing, St Pancras Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, NW1 0PE
- East Team (Enfield & Haringey): Team base: Forest Road Primary Care Centre, Ground Floor, 308A Hertford Road, London, N9 7HD
- West Team (Barnet):Team base: Cedar Place, North London Partners NHS, 890 High Road, North Finchley, N12 9RH
Services offered by the post-holder will include providing psychological assessments and interventions to service users in line with the evidence base and NICE guidelines. They will conduct individualised therapy sessions as well as group sessions alongside other MDT colleagues. They will also offer advice and consultation based on psychological formulation to referrers, staff of the Maple Service and other professional and non-professional groups.
This post will be based in the South Team working with service users who live in Camden & Islington.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will oversee the Clinical Psychology caseload of their sub-team. They will actively contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of maternal mental health clinical services using leadership skills and knowledge to provide training and consultancy within the specialty area of perinatal mental health. There will also be opportunities to be involved in service audit and research relevant to psychological work within perinatal mental health. They are expected to hold a complex caseload.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting and supervising band 7 Psychologists, ensuring that the Clinical Psychology team understands and operates to the requirements of the service line operational policy and service line strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will be supervised by the Lead Psychologist within the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will oversee the Clinical Psychology caseload of their sub-team. They will actively contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of maternal mental health clinical services using leadership skills and knowledge to provide training and consultancy within the specialty area of perinatal mental health. There will also be opportunities to be involved in service audit and research relevant to psychological work within perinatal mental health. They are expected to hold a complex caseload.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting and supervising band 7 Psychologists, ensuring that the Clinical Psychology team understands and operates to the requirements of the service line operational policy and service line strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will be supervised by the Lead Psychologist within the team.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist
- Post-qualification specialist training in areas relevant to the post (trauma, loss, perinatal mental health)
Desirable
- Evidence of continual professional development
Experience/ Skills
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge of adult mental health, women's health, and parent-child bonding
- Significant post-qualification experience working with adults with severe and enduring mental health needs as well as their families, carers and networks
- Experience of working with women in the perinatal period and with infant-parent attachment
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Well-developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues.
- Evidence of interest in and ability to contribute to service development
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist
- Post-qualification specialist training in areas relevant to the post (trauma, loss, perinatal mental health)
Desirable
- Evidence of continual professional development
Experience/ Skills
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge of adult mental health, women's health, and parent-child bonding
- Significant post-qualification experience working with adults with severe and enduring mental health needs as well as their families, carers and networks
- Experience of working with women in the perinatal period and with infant-parent attachment
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Well-developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues.
- Evidence of interest in and ability to contribute to service development
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).
