The post-holder will work as a member of CNWL’s Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service (M-TLC) and will provide a senior qualified psychology service to women referred into or under the care of the team. Other members of the team are specialist midwives, CBT therapists and the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Under the supervision of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, they will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment to service users and support and signposting to their families/carers.
Using a psychological and trauma informed perspective, they will provide advice, and consultation on their care to non-psychology colleagues and to the professional network involved in treating and caring for women in maternity teams across the four maternity services within the CNWL footprint, i.e. Hillingdon, Northwick Park, Chelsea & Westminster, St Mary’s Hospital.
The post holder will be supported by working as part of an MDT and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and will undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to women and their babies under the care of the MTLC.
Provide assessments of patients referred to M-TLC based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
To contribute to the assessments of women with specialist mental health disorders including formulations of predisposing, protective, precipitating and perpetuating factors.
Implement care plans for the formal treatment and/or management of a woman’s problems, (with consideration of her baby’s needs) based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both the evidence base, theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the individual, family or group.
To be responsible for implementing a range of time-limited psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of a range of theoretical approaches.
Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to women/birthing persons formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
Compassion : Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
Respect : We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
Empowerment : We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
Partnership : We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details and main responsibilities of the post within this Maternal Mental Health Service.
