Band 7: £49,178 to £55,492 a year per annum incl HCAS
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CASELOAD FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NHS
Opportunity to be part of a new and exciting Parent-Infant Mental Health Service, allowing for innovation and creativity in practice.
Collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team, including experienced professionals in child and adolescent psychotherapy, enhancing learning and professional development.
Directly impact the quality of parent-infant relationships, contributing to the mental health and emotional well-being of infants and their families during critical early years.
Involvement in diverse therapeutic approaches, including individual, group, and video work, providing a rich variety of clinical experiences.
Engagement in the development and improvement of clinical policies and service provision, allowing for influence in shaping best practices within the Trust.
Opportunity to contribute to the training of future professionals, thereby enhancing the service and fostering a learning environment.
Access to regular clinical supervision and support, ensuring ongoing professional growth and adherence to high standards of practice.
Job Summary: Parent-Infant Psychotherapist at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in Wembley
The CNWL Parent-Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS) in Brent is seeking a Parent-Infant Psychotherapist to join its new multidisciplinary team. The role involves providing psychological assessments and treatments to support infants up to two years old with mental health needs, alongside their mothers (and fathers or co-parents) who may have mental health concerns impacting the parent-infant relationship.
Key responsibilities include:
- Conducting assessments and delivering specific Parent-Infant psychological interventions to enhance relationships between infants and parents.
- Engaging in brief parent work, group sessions, consultations, and training for multi-agency colleagues.
- Contributing to clinical audits and service development initiatives.
- Participating in training of trainee psychotherapists and other students.
- Monitoring treatment outcomes and using supervision effectively within the CAMHS framework.
The position requires the ability to work collaboratively within a team while also managing individual caseloads. Regular clinical supervision will be provided by senior team members. The service aims to foster supportive and effective relationships to enhance the mental health of both infants and their caregivers.
Opportunity to be part of a new and exciting Parent-Infant Mental Health Service, allowing for innovation and creativity in practice.
Collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team, including experienced professionals in child and adolescent psychotherapy, enhancing learning and professional development.
Directly impact the quality of parent-infant relationships, contributing to the mental health and emotional well-being of infants and their families during critical early years.
Involvement in diverse therapeutic approaches, including individual, group, and video work, providing a rich variety of clinical experiences.
Engagement in the development and improvement of clinical policies and service provision, allowing for influence in shaping best practices within the Trust.
Opportunity to contribute to the training of future professionals, thereby enhancing the service and fostering a learning environment.
Access to regular clinical supervision and support, ensuring ongoing professional growth and adherence to high standards of practice.
CNWL Parent-Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS) is an exciting new service being developed in Brent. We are looking for a Parent-Infant Psychotherapist to join this new team. The post-holder will be based in Brent CAMHS and will have clinics in the community and in Family Hubs across Brent.
In line with the Start 4 Life Programme, the service will offer support to infants in the first two years of life with mild, moderate or severe mental and emotional health needs, and their mothers in the first two years postpartum; who have mild to moderate mental health concerns past or present, risking the mother-infant relationship. This service also extends to fathers, co-parents and the overall familial relationship with the infant, with the infant remaining the focus of the work.
The service will be delivered by a MDT consisting of a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, a Lead Parent-Infant Psychotherapist, a Senior-Parent Infant Psychotherapist, two Parent-Infant Psychotherapists, and an Assistant Psychotherapist.
- To participate in the development of an effective PIMHS team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
- To be responsible for the assessment and treatment of families allocated to them within the context of the multi-disciplinary U5s CAMHS team.
- To be directly involved in delivering specific Parent-Infant psychological interventions to infants and parents to promote the quality of parent-infant relationships. This may also include brief parent work, group work, short term generic CAMHS input, video work (e.g. video interactive guidance), consultation, offering teaching and training and joint working with multiagency colleagues.
- To be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
- To participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identify improvements to service provision.
- To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
- To contribute to the training experience of trainee psychotherapists and students from other disciples on placement, as appropriate.
- To receive regular clinical and service related supervision from a Consultant/Lead Parent-Infant Psychotherapist within the Brent U5 CAMHS Team.
- To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines.
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Main Responsibilities:
- To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Parent-Infant psychotherapy assessment and treatment to service users, and support and signposting to parents, to promote the quality of parent-infant relationships
- To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of parents with a range of mental health and social and emotional difficulties, particularly focussing on providing interventions flexibly which are adapted to the needs of infants and their mothers/carers in complex and varying degrees of illness and distress.
- To offer consultation, teaching and training on Parent-Infant mental health and Attachment to multidisciplinary colleagues as required.
- To contribute to audit and research.
- To actively engage in outcome monitoring, including the use of normed routine outcome measures associated with CYP IAPT where appropriate.
- To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework of the CAMHS Directorates and the Trusts policies and procedures.
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