Job Description

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.



We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience

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Job overview

Do you have an interest in perinatal mental health and willingness to learn more about working within this field?

If so, we are seeking to recruit to fill two full-time substantive Assistant Psychologist posts and one full-time 12 month fixed term Assistant Psychologist post within our Norfolk and Waveney Perinatal Services. Each post will be based within either the Perinatal Community Mental Health Team (PCMHT), the Lotus Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) or the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit (MBU).

Main duties of the job

The PCMHT offers specialist mental health input to women and their babies antenatally and postnatally. The mothers we work with present with a range of mental health difficulties including depression and anxiety, PTSD, complex trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis. We cover the whole of Norfolk and Waveney and comprise of a full multi-disciplinary team including medics, nurses, nursery nurses, peer support workers, social workers, occupational therapist and psychological therapists. This post will be based at Kingfisher House (Hellesdon Hospital) and the Gatehouse (Julian Hospital).



The Lotus Maternal Therapeutic Outreach Service is a small, dedicated team comprising of Clinical Psychologists, Peer Support Workers and Specialist Midwives. The team offers specialist assessment and psychological interventions to women and birthing people who have experienced mental health difficulties relating to their birth experience, including Birth Trauma, fear of childbirth (Tokophobia) and baby loss, including separation from their baby due to Children's Services involvement. This post will be based at the Gatehouse (Julian Hospital).



The Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit has eight beds and offers specialist acute in-patient treatment for mothers who have serious mental illness, in an environment where they can stay with their babies. Mothers have a range of presentations including postpartum psychosis, severe post-natal depression and severe post-natal anxiety. We are the unit for the east of England region and have a full multi-disciplinary team including medics, nurses, nursery nurses, midwives, health visitors, social workers, an occupational therapist, psychologists and a psychological therapist.





You will receive weekly supervision from a qualified psychologist. As a service we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported previous assistant psychologists onto clinical training.

Applicants must have excellent literacy and numeracy skills, a psychology degree with 2.1 or above and be eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society. Travel is part of the role and being a car driver is essential.

Working for our organisation

The role for all three posts will involve the successful candidate working with their team to deliver psychologically informed assessments and interventions, with a focus on short term individual work alongside some opportunities for group work. The post holder would also be responsible for supporting the team to complete routine outcome measures, updating databases and be involved in auditing psychological therapies within the service. There would be opportunities for service-related research and audit.





You will receive weekly supervision from a qualified psychologist. As a service we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported previous assistant psychologists onto clinical training.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants must have excellent literacy and numeracy skills, a psychology degree with 2.1 or above and be eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society. Travel is part of the role and being a car driver is essential.

Included in your supporting statement, please could you tell us in up to 200 words, what draws you to working as an assistant psychologist in perinatal services

For further information please contact Dr Charlotte Gregory (Clinical Psychologist, MBU) charlotte.gregory@nsft.nhs.uk



Interviews are likely to take place on 11th and 15th September, though this may change.

Person specification

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Qualifications

Essential criteria

A BPS accredited degree in Psychology #

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of quantitative research.

Desirable criteria

Experience of research in the NHS. #

Other

Essential criteria

Able to travel independently

YOUR APPLICATION



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This post may be 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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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.