Clinical Psychologist​/Psychotherapist​/Cbt Therapist Perinatal Mh

Job summary

The Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service are delighted to advertise a permanent post as a psychological therapist to join our diverse MDT.

We are excited to hear from anyone who may be considering a career in Perinatal Mental Health with a therapeutic background, who would like to contribute towards enhancing the lives of birthing people and their families thinks this might be a good opportunity for them. Our service has grown significantly in recent years and expansion to our therapies team and their clinical offer has been a core part of that.

The work would involve providing evidence based psychological interventions delivered via a trauma informed approach to birthing people and their babies. Our therapies team are highly valued and well integrated within the whole team.

To provide a qualified specialist psychological therapy service to women/birthing people, their babies, and the wider family, within the Perinatal Mental Health Service (PNMH). To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.

For a full list of duties, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

At Sheffield University Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we provide a wide range of mental health, learning disabilities, substance misuse, forensic and specialist services across Sheffield.

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is a major employer and provider of services. Our Service Users, Carers and Staff are central, and our values are important to the delivery of high-quality care. Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at the Trust is expected to live and breathe, and we are proud to live our values each and every day, as they outline how we will act to ensure we provide the very best care to the people we support.

We actively seek out individuals who share these values:

• Working together for service users
• Respect and kindness
• Everyone counts
• Commitment to quality
• Improving lives

Date posted: 14 August 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: Depending on experience
pro rata

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 457-

Job locations: Argyll House, 9 Williamson Road, Sheffield, S11 9AR
, United Kingdom

For a full list of duties, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

For a full list of duties, please see the Job Description and Person Specification, check out our website:
Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service | Sheffield Health and Social Care ()and get in touch if you have any questions at all about the role or if a chat might be helpful.

• Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation and/or supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
• (Clinical Psychologists only) Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (e.g. SPSS)

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in Perinatal Mental Health Services.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two relevant specialised psychological therapies.
• Understanding related to trauma and attachment difficulties and the impacts of these in clinical practice and for people's lives.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and policy pertaining to service delivery (e.g.…