Perinatal Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist/ CBT Psychotherapist in Dewsbury inDewsbury PUBLISHED TUE 10 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

37.5 hours per week

The South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team. We are currently recruiting for 1 band 8a Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Senior CBT psychotherapist with additional training in at least 1 other modality such as EMDR, to cover the Kirklees and Calderdale locality.

We are looking for a highly motivated HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Senior CBT Therapist. We are also able to offer preceptorship for people looking to develop their expertise in the perinatal field and applicants will be recruited at band 7 or 8a according to experience. We support continuing professional development and there will be opportunities to take on further training in specialist interventions or therapies as agreed in line management. The posts are supported in the service by a Principle Clinical Psychologist and there is specialist supervision available.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

The post holder will provide psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for women experiencing complex mental health issues during pregnancy and the first 2 years postnatally, alongside their babies and families. The post also involves providing clinical supervision to multidisciplinary colleagues and requires excellent communication skills alongside competence in working with and managing risk in relation to both mother and baby.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the unique challenges of working with women during the perinatal period. Experience of working clinically with parent-infant relationships, couples/families or groups would be advantage.

The post advertised is to work in Kirklees and Calderdale area but travel across the Trusts footprint is required on an ad-hoc basis as we are a trust wide service to help manage capacity and demand. The Service operates Monday-Friday; 9.00am-5.00pm however successful applicants would be expected to have the flexibility to work occasional extended hours to facilitate service effectiveness. Car driver essential.

Please contact Claire Lowe Perinatal Service Manager for further details or Jo Yates Perinatal Principle Clinical Psychologist

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This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

JOB PURPOSE:

The post holder will provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.

Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.

Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.

Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the areas served by the team/service.

To offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being of serive users

To provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate.

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