Principle Clinical PsychologistinBarnstapleinBarnstaplePUBLISHED FRI 14 MAR 2025
Devon Partnership NHS TrustrQSZNtRl
As a Principal Clinical Psychologist, you’ll take on a leadership role, guiding and mentoring less experienced staff while managing your own specialist caseload. Your expertise will play a vital role in shaping service development and evaluations through innovative research and audits. You’ll be supported by regular supervision in line with professional standards and have access to our new collaborative spaces designed to facilitate face-to-face support for both our clients and our team. If you’re ready to join a forward-thinking organisation that values your skills and dedication, we want to hear from you!
This is a fixed-term opportunity within North Devon perinatal mental health team.
Within Devon community perinatal services we have been fortunate to double the amount of resources for 8a psychology posts. We hope this demonstrates a deep appreciation and valuing of psychology and reflects our intention to create a stable and well-resourced perinatal psychology team.
As a service we have been able to offer a wide range of training, clinical and leadership opportunities that has been fundamental to the strong career trajectory that psychologists have held whilst working in the service.
We are continuing to grow and develop as a psychology team that sits within the wider MDT. For example Exeter perinatal psychology and the Maternal Mental Health Clinic, which is part of the wider community perinatal service, have acquired their own estates for two days a week. These estates act as a hub for psychologists across Devon to meet face to face within working hours. This space has also allowed for us to meet with clients in a way that is therapeutically congruent with how we would want to welcome those we work alongside.
A principal purpose of this job is to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of women and birthing people, who present with severe and complex mental health needs during the perinatal period, and their babies and families. Psychology also supports to create a trauma-informed environment.
This is a fixed-term 8a role that will be based with North Devon PNMHT.
This post will hold the following areas of responsibility:
1. Working with the Professional Lead and Service Manager/s to ensure the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service in the specialist field of practice.
2. Providing clinical leadership and supervision for less experienced staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the service.
3. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients and professionals.
4. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within professional andTrust guidelines.
5. Contributing to service development and evaluation by undertaking and supporting others to undertake audit and research activities within the service.
6. Observing, and abiding by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully registered with the Health Care Professions Council or appropriate designated Professional Body as a condition of employment.
7. The post holder with receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated Professional Body.
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