Senior Clinical Psychologist/Senior Psychotherapist - Band 8a

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 working

closely with colleagues across the specialist multidisciplinary team and will

include providing clinical supervision and consultation to multidisciplinary

colleagues. The post requires excellent communication skills alongside

competence in working with and managing risk in relation to both mother and

baby.

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.

post advertised is to work in the Wakefield 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 claire.lowe@swyt.nhs.uk

for further details or Jo Yates Perinatal Principal Clinical Psychologist joanna.yates@swyt.nhs.uk.

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.

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.

(e.g. budgetary or supervisory

responsibilities)

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.

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.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants

are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms.

Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly

discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting

candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your

application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health

and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,

Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are

the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is

to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this

by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ

staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a

difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage

and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value

diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being

a foundation Trust means were accountable to our

members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people

(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join

us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving

the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and

help each year.

are committed

to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and

vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this

commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Special Knowledge/Skills

Desirable: - Working with people in Crisis; - Working on an in-patient Psychiatric ward.

Physical Attributes

Qualifications

Training

Essential: - Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

Experience

Personal Attributes