Job summary
This is a joint recruitment between RDaSH and SHSC as part of regional perinatal mental health provision. There is more than one role available (at least one in each organisation), and we are open to applications from people preferring working hours from full time to part time/job share. There is one interview to attend for a job in either organisation, and at interview we will take preferences for both which organisation / work site and hours the candidates are looking for. Both SHSC and RDaSH are advertising this role and candidates are encouraged to apply to each organisation they would consider accepting a role in.
This post will work into the Sheffield arm of the service. The team base is at Argyll House. Our operational hours are Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.
The Perinatal Mental Health Service is a growing specialist service for women with mental health problems around the time of having a baby, and their families. This is an exciting new leadership role in the service.
You will need to be an experienced, suitably qualified and registered as a Clinical Psychologist with HCPC or Psychotherapist qualified and registered with the appropriate body, (BABCP, UKCP HCPC) with a real passion for perinatal mental health care. You should have attained a level of experience proportionate to the competencies detailed in the job description, possess the skills as detailed in the person specification and be able to work autonomously and with partner agencies.
Main duties of the job
This role will form a central part of the services leadership team who are collectively responsible for delivery on the requirements and ambitions for Perinatal Mental Health Services as laid out in the NHS Long Term Plan and within our commissioning arrangements. We are looking for a psychological leader who meets the Trusts values, behaviours, and standards, and who thrives when leading through uncertainty.
You will be responsible for leading on the developments of the service related to psychological and therapeutic work, encompassing (but not limited to) interfacing with key stakeholders, designing, implementing /evaluating trauma informed care pathways and interventions, delivering training, line management/supervision/job planning with staff, and designing staffing models and progressing recruitment.
We provide a flexible service that meets the needs of women and their families. Appointments are offered in several locations and care is tailored to the needs of the families we work with. As we work with a clinical population who are more vulnerable to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, our ability and willingness to be flexible with regards where care is delivered is essential.
Additionally, there are some leadership activities and duties within this role, which require frequent attendance at the team base. Your application should indicate your understanding of these work role requirements. The trust has a range of policies and practices to help protect you at work.
About us
Psychology roles are highly valued by the Trust and a positive approach to multidisciplinary teamwork is essential.
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
Its important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of
If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure the systemic provision of high quality highly specialist perinatal clinical psychology and psychotherapy services to clients of the Community Perinatal Mental Health Service.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a psychological leader and specialist in perinatal mental health.
To lead, supervise and support psychological and parent-infant assessments and interventions provided by other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systemic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy and propose service developments within the area served by team/service.
To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with best practice.
To lead on psychological care pathways development, using best evidence and co-production to create effective, well received, trauma informed patient pathways through the service along with the rest of the leadership team.
To coordinate, organise and performance manage the work of other psychologists/psychotherapists/parent infant psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment across the Perinatal Service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure the systemic provision of high quality highly specialist perinatal clinical psychology and psychotherapy services to clients of the Community Perinatal Mental Health Service.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a psychological leader and specialist in perinatal mental health.
To lead, supervise and support psychological and parent-infant assessments and interventions provided by other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systemic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy and propose service developments within the area served by team/service.
To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with best practice.
To lead on psychological care pathways development, using best evidence and co-production to create effective, well received, trauma informed patient pathways through the service along with the rest of the leadership team.
To coordinate, organise and performance manage the work of other psychologists/psychotherapists/parent infant psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment across the Perinatal Service.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
Essential
- oPost-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS
- oRegistration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC, or oa core mental health professional qualification and, where required, registration (ie Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Arts therapist Registered Mental Health Nurse) oPost-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy oProvisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT oQualified & registered Psychotherapist (e.g. CAT, psychotherapists, Systemic therapist) OR oRecognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist oProvisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT oAdditional, post-qualification short courses in Perinatal care. oTraining in clinical leadership /Leadership & management
Desirable
- oExperienced in care co-ordination
- oEvidence of relevant continuing professional development
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oKnowledge of maternal mental health, infant mental health and parent infant relationships.
- oHigh level skills in the assessment and management of risk to both the mother and baby.
- oWell-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.
- oSkills in providing highly specialised consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- oDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (eg SPSS). (Clinical Psychologists only)
- oHigh level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies related to Perinatal mental health care delivery.
- oEvidence of significant continuing professional development as required by relevant professional and accrediting bodies
- oHighly specialised knowledge and skills in the delivery of Perinatal mental health care
- oKnowledge of current health and social care policy
- oMulti-agency working and liaison with multiple systems
- oApplication of clinical and service governance to a service
Desirable
- oKnowledge of relevant legislation
- oAn understanding of leadership strategies and theory
- oAbility to assess perinatal mental health presentations and parent-infant relationships and formulate the presenting difficulties with the clinical team and patients in creative ways which lead to collective understanding, goal setting and which direct the clinical approach taken by the team.
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience of assessment and treatment of patients with moderate to severe mental health conditions across a range of care settings, e.g., outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- oExperience of working with parents and families presenting with complex mental health / psychological difficulties and adapting care to their needs
- oExperience of working with people with perinatal mental health difficulties.
- oExperience of working with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming very distressed, abusive and aggressive.
- oSignificant experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment within the context of multidisciplinary care plans.
- oSignificant further training/experience and supervised practice of working as a senior clinical leader.
- oEvidence of leading and completing quality improvement initiatives that engage a diverse range of stakeholders and result in measurable improvements to patient care.
- oEvidence of working closely with Service and Clinical Leads to offer and develop leadership, applying models of leadership and collaborating with wider stakeholders whilst role modelling inclusive working.
- oExperience of teaching, training and providing professional/clinical supervision to others (including qualified psychologists and other professionals).
Desirable
- oExperience of providing clinical consultation to other professional staff.
- oExperience of planning and/or implementing perinatal MH service developments in accordance with local and national policy objectives.
- oTraining in NICE recommended interventions for perinatal MH difficulties.
- oTraining in Video Interactive Guidance
- oExperience of delivering attachment-based interventions to support the promotion of Infant Mental Health.
- oExperience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- oExperience of delivering psychological therapies working with mothers and infants together to support bonding and attachment.
- oTrauma informed care pathway development and evaluation.
- oParticipation in service modelling, including clinical and staffing plans, bid writing, engagement with CCG's, translating national guidance into local systems.
- oLine Management experience.
Other
Essential
- oAbility to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and manage and co-ordinate that of others.
- oAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials including PowerPoint suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice and to co-ordinate/manage that of others.
- oUnderstanding and experience of co-production.
- oAbility to deal with exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
- oAbility to maintain intense concentration on a frequent basis.
- oAbility to exercise judgement when presented with highly complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- oAbility to develop and maintain meaningful, productive and respectful relationship with colleagues, other teams and services within and outside of the organisation.
- oOwn vehicle and driving licence
Desirable
- oExperience of working within a multicultural framework.
- oUnderstanding of the regional commissioning frameworks involving and surrounding the service and mental health services more broadly.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
Essential
- oPost-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS
- oRegistration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC, or oa core mental health professional qualification and, where required, registration (ie Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Arts therapist Registered Mental Health Nurse) oPost-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy oProvisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT oQualified & registered Psychotherapist (e.g. CAT, psychotherapists, Systemic therapist) OR oRecognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist oProvisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT oAdditional, post-qualification short courses in Perinatal care. oTraining in clinical leadership /Leadership & management
Desirable
- oExperienced in care co-ordination
- oEvidence of relevant continuing professional development
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oKnowledge of maternal mental health, infant mental health and parent infant relationships.
- oHigh level skills in the assessment and management of risk to both the mother and baby.
- oWell-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.
- oSkills in providing highly specialised consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- oDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (eg SPSS). (Clinical Psychologists only)
- oHigh level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies related to Perinatal mental health care delivery.
- oEvidence of significant continuing professional development as required by relevant professional and accrediting bodies
- oHighly specialised knowledge and skills in the delivery of Perinatal mental health care
- oKnowledge of current health and social care policy
- oMulti-agency working and liaison with multiple systems
- oApplication of clinical and service governance to a service
Desirable
- oKnowledge of relevant legislation
- oAn understanding of leadership strategies and theory
- oAbility to assess perinatal mental health presentations and parent-infant relationships and formulate the presenting difficulties with the clinical team and patients in creative ways which lead to collective understanding, goal setting and which direct the clinical approach taken by the team.
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience of assessment and treatment of patients with moderate to severe mental health conditions across a range of care settings, e.g., outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- oExperience of working with parents and families presenting with complex mental health / psychological difficulties and adapting care to their needs
- oExperience of working with people with perinatal mental health difficulties.
- oExperience of working with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming very distressed, abusive and aggressive.
- oSignificant experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment within the context of multidisciplinary care plans.
- oSignificant further training/experience and supervised practice of working as a senior clinical leader.
- oEvidence of leading and completing quality improvement initiatives that engage a diverse range of stakeholders and result in measurable improvements to patient care.
- oEvidence of working closely with Service and Clinical Leads to offer and develop leadership, applying models of leadership and collaborating with wider stakeholders whilst role modelling inclusive working.
- oExperience of teaching, training and providing professional/clinical supervision to others (including qualified psychologists and other professionals).
Desirable
- oExperience of providing clinical consultation to other professional staff.
- oExperience of planning and/or implementing perinatal MH service developments in accordance with local and national policy objectives.
- oTraining in NICE recommended interventions for perinatal MH difficulties.
- oTraining in Video Interactive Guidance
- oExperience of delivering attachment-based interventions to support the promotion of Infant Mental Health.
- oExperience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- oExperience of delivering psychological therapies working with mothers and infants together to support bonding and attachment.
- oTrauma informed care pathway development and evaluation.
- oParticipation in service modelling, including clinical and staffing plans, bid writing, engagement with CCG's, translating national guidance into local systems.
- oLine Management experience.
Other
Essential
- oAbility to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and manage and co-ordinate that of others.
- oAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials including PowerPoint suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice and to co-ordinate/manage that of others.
- oUnderstanding and experience of co-production.
- oAbility to deal with exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
- oAbility to maintain intense concentration on a frequent basis.
- oAbility to exercise judgement when presented with highly complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- oAbility to develop and maintain meaningful, productive and respectful relationship with colleagues, other teams and services within and outside of the organisation.
- oOwn vehicle and driving licence
Desirable
- oExperience of working within a multicultural framework.
- oUnderstanding of the regional commissioning frameworks involving and surrounding the service and mental health services more broadly.
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).
