Perinatal Psychological Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Perinatal Mental Health Team.We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Psychological Practitioner (Psychologist, Adult Psychotherapist, Arts Psychotherapist or CBT Therapist) to join our well-established MDT working in the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

The Perinatal Mental Health Service provides evidence based care for women, their infants and their families, in line with the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term plan. The service prioritises access and care for women with moderate to severe mental health difficulties and works closely with general adult services, maternity, primary care and social care.

While this post will primarily focus on delivering psychological interventions to individuals and families (both directly and by supervising and supporting MDT colleagues) there will also be scope for delivering training, teaching and consultation to other professionals.

The successful candidate will be joining a supportive and engaged Psychological Interventions team and will receive regular supervision and CPD as well as informal support.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of women within the perinatal service and to provide specialist advice guidance to other staff members when required.
• To provide of high-quality evidence-based psychological treatments to women with complex co-morbidity, providing individually tailored psychological treatment programmes addressing problems such as severe depression and anxiety, perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder, personality disorder and psychosis. The post holder will provide either direct treatment of vulnerable women, and consultation/guidance/training to non-psychological staff
• To support the wider health and social care environment in raising awareness around perinatal mental health issues in general and within psychological therapy approaches
• Emphasis is on multi-disciplinary team working delivering good psychological outcomes (rather than emphasis on psychotherapy).
• The post holder will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team, facilitating the integration of a psychological perspective into the team’s understanding of the clinical issues.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development
• The role may entail working as lead health care professional if appropriate.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications as per essential criteria in person specification
• A clear interest in perinatal mental health

Experience

Essential

• Broad range of post qualification experience
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
• Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical aggression.

Desirable

• Some prior experience of working with mother and infant dyad

Closing Date: 16 August 2026