Job summary
Ocean is a psychology-led service combining psychology and specialist midwifery in supporting women and birthing people who are experiencing moderate-severe mental health difficulties relating to baby loss and birth trauma. Ocean is a community based service, offering a range of interventions including one to one psychology, group work and indirect work with maternity services.The post-holder will support the delivery of individual and group psychological interventions across the three pathways within OCEAN. There will be opportunities to develop group based interventions in partnership with maternity services and voluntary sector organisations, alongside liaison with primary care talking therapies and perinatal services.Ocean is based in Vivienne Cohen House in Hackney, and offers support to women and birthing people across East London in the boroughs of City & Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. You must be keen to embrace the privileges of working in diverse boroughs and have experience of working with people with complex mental health difficulties from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds to deliver psychologically informed care.
Main duties of the job
In addition to:
- Providing psychological assessments and interventions to women and birthing people under the care of Ocean MMHS
- Developing and delivering group and one to one interventions, as appropriate for the needs of the service
- supporting the development of culturally accessible psychological services for women and birthing people.
The successful candidate will contribute to screening of new referrals into the service, support management of the database and offer clinical supervision where appropriate.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the job please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification files
Person Specification
Education/ qualification/ training
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical OR Counselling Psychology or BACP/BABCP/UKCP accredited psychotherapy qualification
- Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or with other relevant professional body (eg. BABCP, BACP, UKCP)
Desirable
- Training in bereavement and loss
- Further training in perinatal specific approaches and perinatal loss
- Further training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
- Further training in Evidence based Trauma Interventions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist or Psychological therapist in secondary care NHS services
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of teaching, training, consultation and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation.
- Experience of working with people who have experienced difficulties including PTSD, complex PTSD and loss at a graduate or post-graduate level
Desirable
- Formal basic training in clinical supervision
- Skills in working in multidisciplinary settings and knowledge of the practices of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care network, including medical, employment, social, educational, legal and criminal justice systems
- Experience of working in a perinatal or maternal mental health service
- Experience of working with loss and bereavement
- Experience of working with staff teams in physical health settings, particularly maternity
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Vivienne Cohen House
2 Crozier Terrace
London
E9 6AT