Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Applications are invited for a part-time Clinical or Counselling Psychologist post in specialist perinatal services, working within the thriving and well-regarded multidisciplinary Hertfordshire Community Perinatal Team (CPT), to cover a period of maternity leave, up to twelve months. The CPT serves the county of Hertfordshire, supporting women with complex and significant mental health needs, through pregnancy and the postnatal period as well as working closely with maternity staff and providers of primary, secondary and inpatient care. The post-holder will have varied responsibilities; offering psychological assessments, the delivery of individual and group evidence-based psychological interventions in order to support the mother-infant relationship, offering supervision and reflective practice to a range of junior psychology colleagues and the wider MDT, service development and audit, teaching and training to MDT and healthcare colleagues as well as liaison and consultation.Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the ongoing running and development of a highly specialised perinatal psychology service for women who are pregnant, or up to 2 years postnatal, with, or at risk of, a wide range of mental health problems including complex and severe difficulties, such as Complex Trauma, Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
• To aid in the assessment, formulation and care planning of women in the perinatal period, as well as the mother-infant dyad and to provide and evaluate a range of high-quality, evidence-based perinatal-specific psychological interventions; individual and group, for service users and families. Experience across a range of therapeutic models is essential including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other models such as Compassion Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, EMDR, Systemic Therapy and Mindfulness.
• To be responsible for offering liaison and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team, colleagues within the inpatient mother and baby unit, the community psychology and psychotherapy service, local maternity services, as well as carers and other agencies on matters related to the psychological needs and issues relevant to the service and its users
• To offer high-quality clinical and professional supervision to junior psychology colleagues and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research within the service
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout