Perinatal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Perinatal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist seeking a new challenge?

A part-time opportunity has arisen for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Oxfordshire Maternal Mental Health Service. The right candidate will play a key role in providing evidence-based treatments to perinatal patients across Oxfordshire.

We are looking for a skilled psychologist who is motivated to contribute to the valuable work of our team primarily through assessment and treatment, with opportunities to develop and/or consolidate their skills particularly in the management of trauma presentations. You will have experience of working alongside a range of other professionals to provide psychological advice and consultation regarding formulation and treatment.

Our ideal candidate will have experience of providing psychological assessment and intervention for adults in the perinatal period with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.

We welcome applications from recently qualified clinical or counselling psychologists.

This role is crucial in ensuring that patients get timely access to high quality specialist psychological treatments within the Oxfordshire Maternal Mental Health Service. As part of the role, you will:

• Provide psychological assessment and intervention for adults with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties presenting in the perinatal period and their families in outpatient, community and inpatient settings as required. This may include the use of digital technology.
• Supervise and support the psychological assessment and interventions provided by other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment, dependent on experience.
• Provide ad hoc advice, consultation and supervision on clients' psychological care to colleagues and other professionals as delegated by the Principal Clinical Psychologist.

You will excel at working autonomously, managing a caseload and taking responsibility for the governance of your psychological practice within a multidisciplinary team. You will be familiar with utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development.

Please note:

the responsibilities of this role are subject to change as this role is yet to be evaluated

We offer excellent supervision, CPD and training opportunities to support the role and individual career progression, and have excellent links with the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health that includes Oxford Centre for Cognitive Therapy (OCTC) and Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training and Research, which is hosted by the Trust. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry and Department of Experimental Psychology.

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity  will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

• Qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with relevant registration or final year trainee within 3 months of qualifying
• Further training relevant to working in perinatal mental health
• Further training/qualifications or experience in supervision, research methodology, staff training, other relevant fields
• Further training/qualifications in specific therapy modalities such as DBT, EMDR, BCT, VIG
• Evidence of CPD since qualifying

• Complex/specialist methods of psychological assessment, formulation and treatment
• Effective communication of sensitive/complex information
• Multidisciplinary teamwork and consultation
• Teaching/training

• Psychological assessment, formulation and treatment
• Variety of client groups, presenting problems, settings
• Severe and/or complex mental health care
• Supervision of others

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