Assistant Psychologist in Maternal Mental Health

Our friendly, supportive, Maternal Mental Health Service is looking for an Assistant Psychologist to join the team. Working with women and families who have been affected by birth trauma, loss in the maternity context, or tokophobia, this post offers the opportunity to develop your clinical skills in a family focused specialism. In stepping into this post, you would be a much valued member of our team, with flexibility to develop the role according to the needs of families.

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:

• SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
• Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
• “In our Gift” providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
• The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
• Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
• Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
• Child Care Vouchers Scheme
• Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
• NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

To support the delivery of psychological interventions for women and families who have been referred to the service, across each pathway (birth trauma, loss, and tokophobia), offering psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the close supervision of a registered Applied Psychologist. This will require liaison with the wider maternity system, development and delivery of group based interventions, and psychological interventions under the guidance of the supervising Psychologist. To assist in clinically related administration, development of resources, conduct of audits, collection of clinical data, administration of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work as required.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role.