Senior Perinatal Clinical Psychologist

Would you like to make a real difference to the lives of women, their babies and families? Are you ready to enhance and develop your compassionate leadership skills in a specialist area of mental health? If so, then consider joining us! We have a fixed-term opportunity for a Senior Clinical Psychologist, to cover maternity leave in our Pennine Specialist Perinatal Community Mental Health Team (SPCMHT).

You would be based in our Blackburn team. You will work clinically across the Pennine Lancs area, with some limited travel across the service footprint to attend service wide Psychology/therapies meetings, etc. The Pennine SPCMHT has a kind and compassionate Team Leader and supportive MDT.

As a fixed-term post, the role would require immediate supervision of other members of the Pennine psychology/therapy team, clinical consultation and oversight of referrals and allocations. You would be well-supported by senior psychology colleagues in the role.

This is a great opportunity for a candidate who has perinatal clinical experience and wants to further develop their supervisory and leadership skills in a contained and supported way.

The Specialist Perinatal Community Mental Health Team (SPCMHT) aims to provide excellent comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health care for the women/birthing people of Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The service focuses on improving outcomes for women/birthing people experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties, their infant and their families.

We provide multidisciplinary integrated team working and ensure effective prevention that responds to local need by:

• Intervening earlier at preconception, during pregnancy and up to 2 years following delivery

On-going training of professionals from multiple disciplines

Improving pathways and processes for mothers, their families and professionals

The service prioritises access and care for women/birthing people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties who are most in need of specialist, comprehensive, multi-agency coordinated care. SPCMHT works closely with general adult services, maternity services, maternal mental health services, primary care and social services.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compress

ed hours and flexi-time.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jo Gorry Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: jo.gorry@lscft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07971671346