Senior Assistant Psychologist - Maternal Loss Psychology Service

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Please refer to the attached job description. Knowledge and experience of perinatal mental health condition and treatment approaches for working with people with personality difficulties is desirable but not essential. A keen interest and passion for working with women and their families is a must, as is the ability to work closely with a range of professionals. You must demonstrate some awareness of and interest in perinatal working, however, previous experience of directly working in perinatal service is not essential.
There will be opportunities for further training via local and regional delivered training programmes. We have strong links with the East Midlands Regional Perinatal Network. The post holder will also be expected to contribute to the development of a locally agreed programme that delivers training to health and social care professionals in Northamptonshire. All our clinical psychology team have completed specialist Perinatal Clinical Psychology Training provided by NHSE.
We are looking for assistant psychologists with an interest in working with women/birthing people experiencing perinatal mental health conditionsincluding post-natal depression, post-partum psychosis and maternal OCD. This is a multi-disciplinary service with lots of opportunities for joint working and service development. The service has also been selected as one of 10 Early Implementer sites to deliver a Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) which is a psychology lead provision

Please refer the Job description for details