Principal Clinical psychologist/Clinical lead
Location
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/28/2025
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Description
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to take a senior role in the leadership of the Cheshire and Merseyside Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS). The MMHS delivers life-changing care to women, birthing people and their families following the devastating experiences of perinatal loss, birth trauma and fear of childbirth.
This is an ideal post for those looking for a leadership opportunity to enhance indirect clinical leadership skills and to contribute towards a nationally expanding field.
We are looking for a creative and tenacious clinical leader who aspires to or has experience of working in a leadership position with women and families. The ability to establish responsive relationships and collaborate with colleagues in maternity, mental health, and third sector organisations is key.
We are seeking people who have a robust understanding of the impact of social inequalities and are passionate about co-production to improve outcomes around health inequality.
The postholder will be supervised by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and work as a part of a dynamic and caring perinatal psychological professions leadership team. The ideal candidate will have the ability to offer confident and sound clinical decisions within the team, and enable others to do the same.
To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist maternal mental health service to women and birthing people across Cheshire and Merseyside.
To advise, supervise and support the assessment and treatment provided by clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment within the service.
To provide line management to psychological professions. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.
To work in an effective partnership with the clinical service leadership including maternity, perinatal, and Talking Therapies and members of other agencies responsible for a client’s care.
To provide clinical leadership within the established clinical service model and integrated care pathway of the pilot Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) for Cheshire and Merseyside.
To establish responsive relationships and collaborate with colleagues in maternity, mental health, and third sector organisations.
To work collaboratively with families and ‘experts by experience’ and support co-production methodologies to inform service model.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Ruth OShaughnessy Job title: Consultant clinical psychologist Email address: [email protected]
This is an ideal post for those looking for a leadership opportunity to enhance indirect clinical leadership skills and to contribute towards a nationally expanding field.
We are looking for a creative and tenacious clinical leader who aspires to or has experience of working in a leadership position with women and families. The ability to establish responsive relationships and collaborate with colleagues in maternity, mental health, and third sector organisations is key.
We are seeking people who have a robust understanding of the impact of social inequalities and are passionate about co-production to improve outcomes around health inequality.
The postholder will be supervised by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and work as a part of a dynamic and caring perinatal psychological professions leadership team. The ideal candidate will have the ability to offer confident and sound clinical decisions within the team, and enable others to do the same.
To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist maternal mental health service to women and birthing people across Cheshire and Merseyside.
To advise, supervise and support the assessment and treatment provided by clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment within the service.
To provide line management to psychological professions. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.
To work in an effective partnership with the clinical service leadership including maternity, perinatal, and Talking Therapies and members of other agencies responsible for a client’s care.
To provide clinical leadership within the established clinical service model and integrated care pathway of the pilot Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) for Cheshire and Merseyside.
To establish responsive relationships and collaborate with colleagues in maternity, mental health, and third sector organisations.
To work collaboratively with families and ‘experts by experience’ and support co-production methodologies to inform service model.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Ruth OShaughnessy Job title: Consultant clinical psychologist Email address: [email protected]
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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