# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Perinatal)

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Tooting
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £66,274 to £73,496 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Practitioner Psychologist with a passion for perinatal care to join our specialist community perinatal mental health service in a part-time (0.5 WTE) capacity.

The post holder will have a proven interest in working with parents and their infants and knowledge of infant and adult mental health. Appropriate specialist clinical and professional supervision and opportunities for training and development will be made available.

The successful candidate will join an experienced and friendly team of psychological therapists who provide a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for service users under the care of the Perinatal Mental Health Team.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing highly specialist psychological care to parents and their infants experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties

- Assessing and managing risk in this context

- Understanding of working with clients presenting with complex emotional needs

- Utilising research skills for audits, service evaluation, and service development

The role involves providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment, attending ward and community MDT meetings, triaging referrals, assessing and signposting to other services, and liaising with midwives, obstetricians, and primary, secondary and third sector care providers.

The salary for this position ranges from £66,274 to £73,496 per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAs.

The Trust offers flexible working, career development, and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which employees and their careers can thrive.

## Skills

### Required
- clinical psychology
- counselling psychology
- perinatal mental health
- risk assessment
- complex emotional needs

### Nice to have
- post qualification training in applied research methodology
- staff training
- DBT
- MBT
- substance misuse
- personality disorder

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