Clinical Psychologist

We welcome applications to cover maternity leave in our lovely psychology team, a team who is passionate about the care we provide to the people we work with and the support we provide to each other and the wider team.

The opening is for a Band 7/8a Clinical Psychologist (0\.6 WTE), who will provide individual, group and systemic support to women/birthing people and their families who are accessing support through the Derbyshire Perinatal and Maternal Mental Health Service.

Within the speciality we work with mental health difficulties around the transition to motherhood, including attachment difficulties, trauma and loss, tokophobia, puerperal psychosis as well as mood and anxiety presentations.

There will be opportunities to provide supervision and consultancy, deliver training, attend workshops and annual forums, and be involved in service development.

Remote working is an option.

All candidates should be registered with the HCPC, eligible for BPS Chartered Status, meet the travel requirements of the post, and have an interest in working with trauma, grief, attachment trauma and perinatal presentations. A welcoming team and glorious countryside awaits.

If appointed, you will join a passionate and experienced MDT and be responsible for the provision of community and inpatient based specialist clinical psychology services for women/birthing people who are pregnant, postnatal, or have experienced a loss and are presenting with a wide range of complex and severe mental health problems, as well as systemic support for their partners.

The role also involves helping to develop and review referral, assessment and treatment protocols as well as attending community MDT meetings, triaging referrals, assessing and signposting to other services, and liaising with midwifes, obstetricians, as well as primary, secondary and third sector care providers.

There will be a strong focus on supporting the continued development of a psychologically informed trauma focus of care within the wider perinatal team and maternity services, providing supervision/training, and utilising research skills for audits, evaluations, and service development.

The service consists of a 6\-bed mother and baby inpatient unit, a community team with bases in Derby and Chesterfield, and a psychology service working with loss.

The inpatient and community services are accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, highlighting the excellent and specialized care provided by the service.

The team includes psychiatrists, psychologists, CPNs, nursery nurses, OTs, team leads, specialist midwives, peer support workers, a social worker, health visitor, pharmacist, and a clinical lead, who all possess great enthusiasm and a strong passion for working with women / birthing people and their families during the perinatal period.

The Trust psychology department facilitates specialized supervision (dissociation, psychodynamic, EMDR, CFT) and training (trauma, CBT), supports CPD, and has good links with university training courses in terms of teaching opportunities, trainee selection and placements. DHCFT goes above and beyond to ensure staff are looked after and feel supported.

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Band 7 / Band 8a

Responsible for the provision of community and inpatient specialist psychological services, in collaboration with an MDT, for women/birthing people who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy, the first two years postnatal or following loss (miscarriage, termination, still birth, neonatal death) .

Provision of psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment based upon the interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.

Providing a systemic approach to working with partners and the wider family and signposting where appropriate.

Supporting the development of psychological and trauma informed services around maternal mental health and perinatal loss, gap analysis in treatment provision, as well as the audit and evaluation of referral pathways and treatment outcomes to ensure equality of service provision.

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