Job summary
The Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service are delighted to advertise a permanent post as a psychological therapist to join our diverse MDT.

We are excited to hear from anyone who may be considering a career in Perinatal Mental Health with a therapeutic background, who would like to contribute towards enhancing the lives of birthing people and their families thinks this might be a good opportunity for them. Our service has grown significantly in recent years and expansion to our therapies team and their clinical offer has been a core part of that.

The work would involve providing evidence based psychological interventions delivered via a trauma informed approach to birthing people and their babies. Our therapies team are highly valued and well integrated within the whole team.

Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist psychological therapy service to women/birthing people, their babies, and the wider family, within the Perinatal Mental Health Service (PNMH). To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.

For a full list of duties, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

About us
At Sheffield University Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we provide a wide range of mental health, learning disabilities, substance misuse, forensic and specialist services across Sheffield.

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is a major employer and provider of services. Our Service Users, Carers and Staff are central, and our values are important to the delivery of high-quality care. Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at the Trust is expected to live and breathe, and we are proud to live our values each and every day, as they outline how we will act to ensure we provide the very best care to the people we support.

We actively seek out individuals who share these values:

• Working together for service users
• Respect and kindness
• Everyone counts
• Commitment to quality
• Improving lives

Details
Date posted: 14 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: Depending on experience
pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 457-25-8213270
Job locations: Argyll House, 9 Williamson Road, Sheffield, S11 9AR, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification, check out our website: Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service | Sheffield Health and Social Care (shsc.nhs.uk)and get in touch if you have any questions at all about the role or if a chat might be helpful.

Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential

• Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation and/or supervision to other professional and non-professional groups.
• (Clinical Psychologists only) Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology, including use of computerised statistical packages (e.g. SPSS)

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in Perinatal Mental Health Services.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two relevant specialised psychological therapies.
• Understanding related to trauma and attachment difficulties and the impacts of these in clinical practice and for people's lives.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and policy pertaining to service delivery (e.g. safeguarding).

Training and qualifications
Essential

• Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS.
• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC OR
• Post-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Accreditation with the BABCP for CBT (or a commitment to gain accreditation within one year of starting the post).
• Qualified & registered Psychotherapist (e.g. Art therapist / CAT psychotherapist / IPT therapist / Family therapist). OR
• Recognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist, and
• Provisional/full accreditation with BABCP for CBT

Desirable

• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology/psychological therapy.
• Additional, post-qualification training in Perinatal Mental health and related fields.

Experience
Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across a range of settings.
• Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties.
• Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of this and their highly emotive and distressing difficulties.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups presenting with difficulties within a range of clinical severities.
• Evidence of being able to work effectively in teams.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.

Desirable

• Experience of working in Perinatal Mental Health (or related) Services.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working directly with trauma and attachment difficulties and their impacts.
• Experience in working with complex safeguarding situations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Argyll House, 9 Williamson Road, Sheffield, S11 9AR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Psychological therapist
Dr Kelly Hobbs and Dr Catharine Kay
catharine.kay@sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk
01142718235

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.