Parent Infant Psychotherapist OR Family Systemic Psychotherapist inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
Key responsibilities include performing in-depth psychological assessments, formulating treatment plans in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, and providing guidance to enhance understanding of infant mental health. The post holder will engage in multi-disciplinary collaboration, contribute to safeguarding and care planning, and promote skill development across the early years system, including offering training and consultations. Travel between family centers and CAMHS bases, as well as across the Tri-Borough area, will be required.
The successful Parent Infant Psychotherapist or Family Systemic Psychotherapist will join our Tri-borough 0-5s Pathway. The pathway in Enfield CAMHS is currently made up of a small, developing team which has combined the Enfield Parent Infant Partnership (EPIP) team who work together with parents and their babies up to the age of 2 and a wider team that work with children aged 2-5. Tri-Borough Under 5's Pathway is a trust wide specialist team that offers therapeutic support to families during pregnancy or with infants, toddlers or children under the age of five years old. It is part of an Early Years provision that ranges from universal offer to specialist interventions. The service works in partnership with other services involved with families who are pregnant or have an infant/young child under the age of 5.
The post holder will provide highly specialised assessment and formulation to parents/primary caregivers and their infants as well as deliver individualised evidence-based care packages where indicated including both group and individual therapeutic interventions as part of our 0-2 offer and also contribute to the wider Under 5s team. The post holder will be able to demonstrate that they have a commitment to perinatal and parent-infant / infant mental health and relevant experience of working therapeutically with parents and babies. It is desirable that the post-holder can demonstrate training in parent-infant therapeutic work (e.g. parent-infant psychotherapy, video feedback interventions for assessment and intervention with parents and babies).
They will engage in multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working with colleagues, supporting relational and safeguarding risk planning and care planning for families. They will also promote the growing knowledge and skills regarding infant mental health across the early years system by offering consultation, advice and delivering training across the network. Thispostwill involve travellingbetween family centres and the CAMHS base in Enfield and travel outside the borough to meet with other colleagues within the wider Tri-Borough (Haringey and Barnet).
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide generic mental health and specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic/ Systemic assessments of children and their families/carers referred to the 0-5 team, drawing on a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures and rating scales, as well as direct and indirect clinical observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their familys mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
- To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
- To be responsible, in consultation with the Clinical Pathway Lead, for implementing a range of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams, appropriate to your specialism (psychodynamic/psychoanalytic or systemic psychotherapy)
- To provide assessment and discharge care planning to families of young children and infants as part of a local protocol and rota.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist advice from your clinical model/ attachment-based models, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the development of formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plans.
- To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a therapeutically based framework for understanding the care needs of children and their families from a therapeutic perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory and specifically from the perspective of your specialist model.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
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