Job summary
- Main area
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 436-7131358
- Employer
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Perinatal Mental Health Team - South Birmingham
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/07/2025
Employer heading
Bd 7/8a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist- Perinatal
Band 7/8a
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
We are excited to be advertising for a permanent psychologist position in our well established Perinatal Mental Health Team in South Birmingham.
We are looking for Clinical/Counselling Psychologists with an interest in perinatal mental health to work in our community team in South Birmingham.
The Perinatal Mental Health Service provides a multi-disciplinary, regional service to treat mothers with mental health problems, both during pregnancy and in the first year post-partum.
There is an Outreach team as well as the 10 bedded inpatient Mother and Baby Unit at the Barberry.
The South Community team is based at Longbridge (B45 9PL)/Barberry (B15 2SJ).
This is a specialist Band 8a position, but we will consider candidates for a Band 7 position based on experience.
You will join a large, active and supportive perinatal psychology team who meet regularly. This service enjoys significant psychology leadership and supports the development of our psychological clinicians.
Main duties of the job
The main clinical work undertaken is to provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for mothers and their babies and families in the community. You will work with women with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, including birth trauma, parent-infant work and OCD and depression. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to our service wide group programme.
The role will also involve contributing to the supervision of psychology trainees or psychology assistants working in the community setting. The post holder will act as a member of the MDT, attend meetings and offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to team colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996; HCPC registration) OR If not yet qualified, close to completion of a DClinPsy or similar qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Training/experience in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice related to perinatal mental health and/or infant mental health
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualified experience of working as Psychologist. Experience with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with mothers and their infants, couples and/or families; Experience of working with women with perinatal mental illness.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies in specific difficult to treat groups; Knowledge of the long term impact of maternal mental health issues on the infant, the mother infant relationship and the wider family
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Laura Evans
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Psychologist (South Birmingham Team)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07985 883173
- Additional information
Dr Laura Evans
Lead Clinical Psychologist (South Birmingham Team)
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