Senior Psychologist - Brighton, United Kingdom - Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

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Brighton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly regarded award-winning Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS) which operates over the whole of Sussex.

The post holder will be based in Brighton and will be expected to travel across Sussex. The post holder will report to the Principal Clinical Psychologist within their team.

The Senior Psychologist in the specialist community perinatal mental health service will work with the main community service treatment pathway and will contribute to the bereavement pathway (neonatal loss and still birth).

Within the larger community service, the postholder will be responsible for typical and atypical perinatal mental health presentations, alongside formulation of parent-infant mental health.

The postholder will need to have an up to date knowledge of adult and infant safeguarding practices and thresholds. A working knowledge of DBT is desirable.

The postholder will be responsible for supervising junior psychologists and trainees and as well as for contributing to complex case discussions and staff training.

Within the Bereavement Pathway, the postholder will be responsible for providing a highly responsive individualised therapy and support for women and their families who have experienced the death of a baby from 24 weeks gestation to one month after birth.

A knowledge of trauma informed interventions, compassion-focussed approaches and psychoanalytic formulation would be helpful.

The postholder will be responsible for supervision and attending complex case formulation of typical and atypical grief reactions, and the design of couples/family interventions where relevant.

The postholder will be given regular supervision and close support from highly skilled professionals within the service as well as opportunities for professional development.

The Long-Term Plan for Mental Health sets out national and local ambitions to improve care for people in pregnancy through the first stages of the babies' life who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental health difficulties.

One in five women experience post or ante natal depression, anxiety or in some cases psychosis, during pregnancy or in the first year after childbirth.

Perinatal community mental health services provide specialist care for women (and their babies) with moderate to severe mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or severe depression.

The long-term benefits of this kind of specialist care offers early help and support to parents and babies to help with a range of perinatal issues including parent infant bonding.

Bereavement Pathway (BP) are one of the key 'flexible deliverables' in the LTP and each iteration is designed to meet local needs and wider maternal health pathways, while at the same time, forming a continuity of care the national design of BP cohorts.

Our BP will be focussed on providing high calibre individualised care to women and their families who have experienced neonatal loss or still birth, defined as loss at 24 weeks.

Our four multidisciplinary teams include Psychiatrists, Administrators, Nurses, Clinical Psychologists, 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, CAMHS and 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 a rare opportunity to provide significant clinical consultation and contribute to the skilful delivery of psychology and psychological therapy (PPT) interventions to the new 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, maternal OCD, post Mother and Baby Unit interventions and parent infant psychotherapy (PIP).

Our PPT group also offers DBT and Circle of Security, and CFT which is under development. You will also join an active perinatal research and audit group who have already had two publications accepted.

Experience of working with trauma will be highly desirable.