Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover until 16th September 2025)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 364-A-7989-A
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Taylor Centre
- Town
- Southend
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Psychological Therapist in Maternal Mental Health Service
Band 7
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
The Essex Maternal Mental Health Service ( MMHS), By your side launched in October 2024 aims to integrate maternity, reproductive health and psychological therapy for women and birthing parents experiencing mental health difficulties arising from, or directly related to, the maternity experience.
A fully therapeutic service is offered since June 2024 for women and birthing parents accessing the 5 maternity units across Essex.
This service has been providing targeted care and support to those women and birthing parents whose needs are not currently being met in other services, including those who have experienced trauma and loss in the perinatal period and who are not eligible for specialist perinatal mental health services.
For this role, bases are across Rochford- Ashingdon- Southend
Hybrid working of both face to face and online working is encouraged as well as home visiting when indicated.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for Psychological therapist (Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist/Psychotherapist) to provide maternity cover for 12 months on a fixed term basis to cover the locations of Rochford- Ashingdon- Southend.
They will provide psychological assessment and evidence based psychological therapy to women who experience moderate to severe mental health difficulties following birth trauma, perinatal loss (including early miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death).
You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team of specialist maternal mental health midwives to provide a specialist, trauma-informed psychological service.
We are looking to recruit an experienced psychological therapist who has experience of working with people with trauma and/or loss to join our supportive and passionate team.
There will be regular clinical supervision from the Clinical Lead/Principal Practitioner Psychologist.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The MMHS is part of the broader community perinatal mental health service offer as well as siting within the EPUT Psychological Service Directorate. You will be part of a larger team of psychologists and psychological therapists specialising in perinatal mental health and you will receive support from the Clinical Lead.
Experience of working with trauma and loss is essential for this role.
Please see attached Job description and specification for details regarding the responsibilities and tasks of this role.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the HCPC and BPS Or • Allied Health Professional with registration to professional bodies such as HCPC , NMC as well as a psychotherapeutic accreditation e.g. BACP Or • Practising Psychotherapist who is fully qualified registered member of the relevant accrediting body e.g. BACBP, BACP
Desirable criteria
- • Significant training in a Trauma informed approaches e.g. • EMDR • DBT • CBT for Trauma • MBT
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of the nature of trauma and loss presentations and how they can affect women’s day-to-day life and impact upon recovery
- • Experience or understanding of using an electronic information system
- • Experience of developing psychological therapies delivery, demonstrating evidence based decision making for interventions provided by the service
- • Provide psychological consultation to other professionals both within and external to the service
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of psychological and psychotherapeutic therapies and their application when working with perinatal trauma and loss presentations
Skills/experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience of delivering high quality specialist intervention to individuals and their families.
- • Assess and treat own specialist and complex case load in accordance with Trust clinical pathways, NICE guidance and evidence-based psychological practice
- Experience in advising on care and management of cases on the basis of risk assessment
- • Assess and treat own specialist and complex case load in accordance with Trust clinical pathways, NICE guidance and evidence-based psychological practice
- • Extensive experience of working with difficult, complex and challenging cases of families requiring skilled and complex interventions.
- • Extensive Experience of working within an MDT. Experience of liaising and fostering good working relationships with providers of mental health services. Experience of taking clinical decisions making regarding care planning and risk management
- • Experience in the use of assessment tools, therapy and service evaluation tools,
- • Post training experience of complex safeguarding issues and training.
- • Experience of developing psychological therapies delivery, demonstrating evidence based decision making for interventions provided by the service
- • Demonstrate the ability to lead, facilitate and support group work
- • Experience of working within a team environment
- • Ability to maintain high standards of work and to follow Trust policies and procedures
- • Self-motivated with a desire to contribute to the ongoing service development
- • Participate in service reviews and research
- • Able to demonstrate a level of flexibility, innovation and creativity in the working environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Communication and people skills Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, telephone manner including liaison with outside agencies
- • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- • Valid enhanced DBS clearance
- • Resilience in dealing with emotive situations as may arise in the course of this role
- • Able to identify own stressors and take appropriate action to prevent negative impact of this on wellbeing and seek appropriate and timely support
- • Resilience to effectively manage own emotions in response to the emotional distress of others and support the team members in this process
- • Able to work across the locality area as requested by Line Manager
- • Ability to travel independently across a defined geographical area
- • Shares the Trust’s Beliefs and models this in their attitude and behaviour:
Additional Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Current Full UK Driving Licence and ability travel across Trust sites
- • Fitness Analysis as appropriate
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephanie Lambert
- Job title
- Clinical Lead/Principal Practitioner Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07581055280
- Additional information
Dr Ellen Auty, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cllinical Lead of Parent Infant Mental Health Service & Head of Perinatal Psychology
[email protected]
Tel 01621 866900; Mobile 07805139660
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