Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist
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Building Attachment & Bonds Service (BABS)
BABS is looking to recruit an experienced Specialist Clinical Psychologist.
About the Role
The service is part of the Mersey Care Community Care Division and is hosted in the community in Family Hubs and Children Centres.
The post involves providing specialist therapeutic parent-infant mental health support to vulnerable families in the antenatal/postnatal period. The main focus is supporting parents and infants to build secure bonds and attachment relationships, and good parent-infant mental health. It would be an advantage if the post holder has previous experience and/or an interest and passion for working in the specialist field of parent-infant mental health; in particular, experience of working on an outreach, community-basis supporting vulnerable families in the community.
The successful applicant must be confident and skilled to work independently and in collaboration/partnership with other professionals. They must be comfortable working with safeguarding issues/concerns and the multitude of risks presented in the parent-infant relationship. Most importantly, they must have good interpersonal skills and qualities to build a good relationship and engage families with complex lives.
Band 7s & Secondments will also be considered for this post.
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Main Duties
The successful applicant will provide specialist therapeutic parent-infant mental health support to families in the antenatal/postnatal period via Parent-Infant Mental Health Assessments, psychological formulation, and various parent-infant interventions.
They will provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client’s care.
Collaborative Work
The successful applicant will work collaboratively with the following professionals and teams to support vulnerable parents and infants:
- Community and Specialist/Public Health Midwives
- Mersey Care teams within the Child Health Directorate (Health Visitors, Family Nurses, Breastfeeding Team)
- Children Centre and Early Years Staff
- Perinatal Mental Health Teams
- Children’s Social Care staff (Social Workers, Early Help and Family Support Workers Staff)
About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
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We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Lisa Marsland
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: lisa.marsland@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07810204104
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