Shared Health Foundation is a clinically-led, evidence-based non-profit organisation that is passionate about reducing the impact that poverty has on health.
We have an open position for a Clinical Psychologist (Infant Parent) to join The Together Service team.
Job title: Clinical Psychologist (Infant Parent)
Payment: £43,742 WTE
Hours: 15 hours (2 days)
Department: The Together Service
Location: Newton Health, Manchester
Reports to: Principal Infant Parent Clinical Psychologist
Job Purpose
To provide a primary-care based psychological service supporting families in the perinatal period.
Key Responsibilities:
- To build effective working relationships with the primary care team
- To offer training and consultation to healthcare staff and other professionals around perinatal mental health, infant development and trauma-informed care
- To identify and engage with particular groups/families/individuals where engagement with services may be low but need is high
- To build relationships with other organisations/communities in the local area to enhance engagement.
- To carry out outreach work to homeless families in the perinatal period
- To set up and facilitate antenatal group sessions focussed on the social and emotional aspects of becoming a parent, baby development and infant-parent relationships
- To offer psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with families in the perinatal period. This may include one-to-one work, couple work, family work, broader systemic interventions as appropriate.
- To offer flexible and appropriate therapeutic input including parental mental health work, infant-parent relationship work and work around baby loss (miscarriage/still birth/removal)
- To adhere to HCPC Practice Policy Guidelines
- To keep up-to-date records of all work in line with organisational policies and prepare reports/letters as required
- To engage with safeguarding support and work effectively within multi-disciplinary networks to protect the wellbeing of families
- To access regular supervision with the principal clinical psychologist
- To undertake service audit and service development tasks as appropriate
- To contribute a psychological perspective to the policy/campaign work of Shared Health
- To maintain CPD and keep up-to-date with mandatory training
Person Specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential Requirements:
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
- Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
Desirable Requirements:
- Additional training/qualification in infant-parent interventions, couples work, family work and/or perinatal mental health work
Experience
Essential Requirements:
- Experience of using psychological assessment, formulation and interventions flexibly
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of inequality within local communities
- Experience of working with families
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience within a perinatal and/or infant-parent therapy service
- Experience offering teaching/consultation to non-psychologists
- Experience of carrying out audit or service evaluation projects.
Knowledge / Skills/Abilities
Essential Requirements:
- Knowledge of relevant psychological theory (e.g. attachment theory)
- Ability to work with more than one person in the therapy room
- Ability to critique psychological assessments/interventions and offer input honouring different cultural experiences
- Ability to communicate skilfully complex and sensitive information with families and colleagues
- Ability to manage own diary and complete IT skills as required
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team,
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, and with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour
- Ability to use supervision effectively
Desirable Requirements
- Knowledge of specific infant-parent approaches e.g. VIG, Infant-parent psychotherapy, Circle of security, Watch, wait, wonder
- Knowledge of compassion-focussed therapy and/or narrative approaches such as the Tree of Life
To discuss further please contact Jen Davies (Clinical Psychologist) on 07384 515059 or j.davies@nhs.net
To apply please provide CV and/or letter indicating how you meet the person specification.
Closing Date: 13/10/2025
Interview Date: 20/10/2025
