This 12-month fixed-term post sits in the Birth Anxiety and Trauma Service within the Gloucestershire Perinatal Mental Health Service, with secondment also considered. The psychological practitioner carries a caseload of women whose moderate to severe difficulties stem from their maternity experience, including birth trauma, perinatal loss and tokophobia. The work is full time at 37.5 hours and includes supervising and supporting multidisciplinary colleagues and training staff in other services. Willingness to train in complicated grief or perinatal loss is essential.
What the job involves
- Carry a caseload and deliver evidence-based psychological interventions, such as CBT, EMDR and Complicated Grief Therapy, to women with birth anxiety, trauma and loss
- Plan and prioritise workload, with autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge
- Deliver psychological interventions to individuals and families, both directly and by supervising and supporting MDT colleagues
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to staff, multidisciplinary teams and managers across agencies and settings
- Share psychological interventions, research and theory with others
- Provide training and supervision to others, including staff in other services, as service need requires
- Work closely with Psychology Practitioners in the Perinatal Mental Health Community Team
What’s required
Experience
- Broad range of post-qualification experience
- A clear interest in perinatal mental health, birth trauma, tokophobia and perinatal loss
- Prior experience of working with tokophobia, birth trauma and perinatal loss presentations
Skills & knowledge
- Training in complicated grief or perinatal loss, or willingness to undertake it
Nice to have
- Previous experience of working with women experiencing birth anxiety, trauma and perinatal loss
- Perinatal Loss Training, or willingness to undertake it
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
