Senior Specialist Psychological Therapist / Senior Psychologist

Our four multidisciplinary teams include Psychiatrists, Administrators, Nurses, ClinicalPsychologists, Early Years workers, and some specialist Midwives and Health Visitors who are all trained in adult and infant mental health. The Service has extremely good working partnerships with a wide range of primary and secondary care professionals, including Midwives, Health Visitors, Social Care, CAMHSand Adult Mental Health Services across Sussex and is a key member of the South East Coast Strategic Network. You will join a multi-disciplinary service, comprising four separate teams, providing specialist care for women with moderate to serious mental health crisis such as perinatal psychosis, bipolar disorder or severe uni-polar depression whilst they are pregnant or in the first 12 months after birth. This is also a rare opportunity contribute to the skilful delivery of psychology and psychological therapy (PPT) interventions to the bereavement pathway. These are likely to be individual, couple and family-based therapies for trauma and loss. Within the main service you will offer the four core PPT offers; birth trauma/PTSD, Maternal OCD, post MBU interventions and parent infant psychotherapy (PIP). Our PPT group also offers DBT and is developing CFT group work. We have a specialist Couples Therapy offer, and low intensity PIP which can include video work. You may also join an active perinatal research and audit group who have already had several publications accepted. Please see the job description for outlines of the main duties and responsibilities of this post, and the person specification which lists the requirements necessary to perform the job. Candidates will be assessed according to the extent to which they meet the specification. Please note: we do not provide EMDR within the service, and do not provide any individual opportunities for applicants with previous training to provide EMDR within their job plans. Job description Job responsibilities Our four multidisciplinary teams include Psychiatrists, Administrators, Nurses, ClinicalPsychologists, Early Years workers, and some specialist Midwives and Health Visitors who are all trained in adult and infant mental health. The Service has extremely good working partnerships with a wide range of primary and secondary care professionals, including Midwives, Health Visitors, Social Care, CAMHSand Adult Mental Health Services across Sussex and is a key member of the South East Coast Strategic Network. You will join a multi-disciplinary service, comprising four separate teams, providing specialist care for women with moderate to serious mental health crisis such as perinatal psychosis, bipolar disorder or severe uni-polar depression whilst they are pregnant or in the first 12 months after birth. This is also a rare opportunity contribute to the skilful delivery of psychology and psychological therapy (PPT) interventions to the bereavement pathway. These are likely to be individual, couple and family-based therapies for trauma and loss. Within the main service you will offer the four core PPT offers; birth trauma/PTSD, Maternal OCD, post MBU interventions and parent infant psychotherapy (PIP). Our PPT group also offers DBT and is developing CFT group work. We have a specialist Couples Therapy offer, and low intensity PIP which can include video work. You may also join an active perinatal research and audit group who have already had several publications accepted. Please see the job description for outlines of the main duties and responsibilities of this post, and the person specification which lists the requirements necessary to perform the job. Candidates will be assessed according to the extent to which they meet the specification. Please note: we do not provide EMDR within the service, and do not provide any individual opportunities for applicants with previous training to provide EMDR within their job plans.