Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join Jasmine Lodge, Mother & Baby Inpatient Unit (MBU) and its linked Outreach Team in Devon. This unique role offers variety and impact working across an eight‑bed inpatient unit that provides specialist perinatal mental health care for mothers with a range of perinatal mental health difficulties, their infants and families across Devon, Somerset and Cornwall. If you have experience in working in perinatal and inpatient settings, are motivated and have strong leadership skills we would love to hear from you.
You will be part of a multi‑disciplinary team, contributing to the psychological therapeutic offer within the MBU and wider outreach team. The role includes delivering specialist psychological interventions, supporting the wider staff team to provide trauma‑informed compassionate care.
We are actively engaged in research, and there are excellent opportunities for specialist supervision, training and development within this role.
This is a permanent 30 hour per week (0.8 wte) position.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will join the MDT and leadership team to lead and support on the development and implementation of psychological provision within the MBU, promoting psychological thinking.
There will be a focus on providing highly specialist psychological assessment and interventions, working with a range of perinatal mental health difficulties requiring inpatient admission. You will also bring experience of attachment to hold the parent‑infant relationship throughout the work. You will provide high quality, evidence‑based psychological interventions to individuals, groups, couples and parent‑infant work.
As part of the leadership team, you will contribute to maintaining a psychologically safe team culture, support with ensuring team effectiveness and participate in / lead service developments. There will also be scope for delivering training and consultation.
The successful candidate will be HCPC registered and eligible for chartered status with the BPS.
Person Specification Qualifications
- Qualified Clinical Psychologist (DClin or equivalent) and registered with HCPC.
- Further training in related area
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy
- Further training or experience in clinical specialism – Perinatal Mental Health and working in inpatient settings (MBU)
Skills & Abilities
- Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Advanced psychological assessment and formulation skills including risk assessment.
- Strong leadership qualities, resilience and ability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty.
Experience
- Experience of work in adult mental health services and work with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties.
- Experience of working with perinatal and postnatal women with severe and complex mental health difficulties.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience in undertaking leadership roles within clinical psychology services in the NHS and in contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies and clinical policies in multidisciplinary, multi‑agency contexts.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across a wide range of care settings.
- Experience of working in in‑patient settings.
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
- Proficiency in both individual and group therapy approaches.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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