Senior Clinical Psychologist / Applied Psychologist 7/ 8ainNorthamptoninNorthamptonPUBLISHED FRI 21 MAR 2025
As a vital member of our team, you'll provide specialised psychological assessments, interventions, and invaluable advice to colleagues and non-professional carers, all while working independently within our supportive framework. You’ll also play a key role in shaping our services through research and development initiatives, ensuring our clinical approaches reflect the best practices that align with national and local mental health strategies. At NHFT, we celebrate diversity and strongly encourage applications from women, individuals with disabilities, and those from underrepresented communities, as we strive to create an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. Join us in making a real difference to the lives of mothers and families in our community.
NHFT have an exciting opportunity to join our expanding perinatal psychology pathway. NHFT has an established award-winning Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service which has expanded in line with the Long Term Plan for Mental Health.
We are looking for a Senior Clinical Psychologist/ Applied Psychologist who has skills, experience and interest in working with women/birthing people experiencing perinatal mental health conditions including post-natal depression, post-partum psychosis and maternal OCD. This is a multi-disciplinary service with lots of opportunities for joint working and service development. Psychological interventions are provided on both a group and 1.1 basis and include compassion focused therapy, CBT, EMDR and IPT. Both remote and face-to-face interventions are available.
This job opportunity is also open to Band 7/8A preceptorship candidates.
The postholder for this position will fulfil the following role:
- Senior Clinical Psychologist/ Applied Psychologist
To provide a specialist perinatal psychological intervention to women experiencing or at risk of experiencing moderate to severe mental health conditions in the perinatal period.
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on women's' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams' policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post-holder will help with for the identifying gaps in the service and assisting with service improvement and developing pathways of care to meet the service needs in line with National and Local strategies and evidence-based best practice.
About us
The postholder will hold a clinical caseload including complex cases, support clinical staff through training and clinical practice, provide clinical supervision and line management to colleagues, be responsible for leading on an area of service development and contributing to the management and operations of psychological interventions within the SPMHS. The postholder will support the psychology management team and develop clinical expertise in perinatal psychology.
The postholder will provide advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues; will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust and Services policies and procedures. The postholder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service.NHFT welcomes applications from people, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status or pregnancy or maternity status.We would encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. In particular, applications from disabled people (with both visible and non-visible disabilities), people from black and minority ethnic communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) people.
NHFT is committed to building a diverse workforce, ensuring staff are treated fairly at work and ensuring all staff have the learning and development they need on equality in order to undertake their job role.We aim to use monitoring information provided by our staff and by job applicants to ensure that we do not discriminate in employment and to use this information to plan any Positive Action to address inequality.NHFT supports three staff equality networks to help us to develop our equality practice, as well as providing peer support for staff.These are:NHFT Staff Disability & Allies Network / NHFT BME Staff Development Network / NHFT LGBT & Allies Network
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