Perinatal Clinical Psychologist inBournemouth inBournemouth PUBLISHED 13 SEP 2024

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services.
You will be welcomed by an established, nationally accredited multi-disciplinary team which includes dedicated Peer specialists which is expanding to develop the service to meet the Perinatal Long Term Plan ambitions. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues committed to providing care for women, their partners, and their infants to enable them to live their best life.

To work as an autonomous, independent practitioner responsible for own work and intervention and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies in providing a highly specialist Applied or Clinical Psychology service.

You will have access to training and regular supervision to enable you to achieve your full potential as a specialist clinician. We are an enthusiastic, committed and developing psychological team within the Perinatal service. We have developed good supervision structures to ensure best practices with access to peer supervision, and access to supervision in ACT, IPT, VIG, CAT and EMDR as well as an established DBT consult. We are an enthusiastic team of psychologist with a drive to ensure that psychological approaches are at the heart of the service through formulation, joint working, individual and group interventions in addition through delivering supervision and consultation to perinatal practitioners.

To undertake complex assessments and consultancy, providing expert advice to perinatal mental health multi-professional team.

To provide specialist treatment for complex cases.

Plan and prioritise own clinical workload; comment and propose change to policy or service development within the area psychological service.

To provide specialist supervision for trainee clinical psychologists and to provide psychological guidance and supervision for multidisciplinary clinical colleagues.

Alongside Perinatal Psychology Colleagues, develop and encourage an evidence based research culture within the wider clinical team.

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here – it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jagoda Banovic Job title: Head of Perinatal Service Email address: Telephone number:
You will be welcomed by an established, nationally accredited multi-disciplinary team which includes dedicated Peer specialists which is expanding to develop the service to meet the Perinatal Long Term Plan ambitions. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues committed to providing care for women, their partners, and their infants to enable them to live their best life.

To work as an autonomous, independent practitioner responsible for own work and intervention and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies in providing a highly specialist Applied or Clinical Psychology service.

You will have access to training and regular supervision to enable you to achieve your full potential as a specialist clinician. We are an enthusiastic, committed and developing psychological team within the Perinatal service. We have developed good supervision structures to ensure best practices with access to peer supervision, and access to supervision in ACT, IPT, VIG, CAT and EMDR as well as an established DBT consult. We are an enthusiastic team of psychologist with a drive to ensure that psychological approaches are at the heart of the service through formulation, joint working, individual and group interventions in addition through delivering supervision and consultation to perinatal practitioners.

To undertake complex assessments and consultancy, providing expert advice to perinatal mental health multi-professional team.

To provide specialist treatment for complex cases.

Plan and prioritise own clinical workload; comment and propose change to policy or service development within the area psychological service.

To provide specialist supervision for trainee clinical psychologists and to provide psychological guidance and supervision for multidisciplinary clinical colleagues.

Alongside Perinatal Psychology Colleagues, develop and encourage an evidence based research culture within the wider clinical team.

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here – it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jagoda Banovic Job title: Head of Perinatal Service Email address: Telephone number:


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