The South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team on a secondment working 24 hours per week. The post is agile and hours/working days can be agreed to suit the successful applicant.
We are a multi-disciplinary team working across the Trusts footprint: Calderdale, Kirklees, Huddersfield and Barnsley. This post is to cover Wakefield.
We are looking to recruit a Parent Infant Psychotherapist who is interested in working with mothers during pregnancy, birth, and in the first two years of the mother/baby relationship, to promote and provide interventions to support positive bonding and attachment.
All applicants must have excellent clinical skills and confidence and enthusiasm for working with perinatal partner agencies in networks that extend beyond traditional specialist mental health boundaries.
We welcome applications from suitably qualified and registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and Highly Specialised Psychotherapists. We support continuing professional development. The successful candidate will have access to specialist supervision.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for women and their babies experiencing complex mental health issues during pregnancy and up to the baby being two years of age.
Any parent infant work undertaken is planned in the context of the multi-disciplinary provision, and perinatal network, and inclusive of the mother and baby wider comprehensive needs.
The post involves providing clinical supervision to multidisciplinary colleagues and requires excellent communication skills alongside competence in working with and managing risk in relation to both mother and baby. It also provides an opportunity to offer consultation within the service and to other professionals working within the Perinatal network.
The Service operates Mon-Fri 9am-5pm however successful applicants would be expected to have the flexibility to work occasional extended hours to facilitate service effectiveness. Car driver essential.
Please contact Claire Lowe at Claire.Lowe@swyt.nhs.uk or Jane Turner at Jane.Turner@swyt.nhs.uk for further details.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines to provide Psychotherapy services to the Service. As part of the multi-disciplinary team and working in partnership with other lead agencies when appropriate, the post holder will be responsible for providing highly specialist assessment of service users and the planning, implementation and evaluation of highly specialist psychotherapy.
The post holder will provide specialist advice and consultation to NHS colleagues, referrers and other external agencies.
Working autonomously as part of a multidisciplinary team, provide assessments and psychotherapy for service users practicing at a high level of clinical expertise and within relevant Codes of Practice and drawing on a wide range of models and techniques.
To formulate a range of treatment options based on an appropriate conceptual framework. To identify priorities of action in complex circumstances. As part of this practice, there will be the need to identify risk and take appropriate action.
To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of service users from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to service users.
To provide psychotherapy as an autonomous clinician, drawing on a range of models and techniques when required. To practice in a way that is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual and their current emotional state. Ensuring that consultation, assessment and treatment interventions are provided in partnership with service users and their families.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for service users, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the patient and their difficulties.
To ensure that appropriate feedback on caseload is provided to relevant stakeholders, and that feedback from service users is utilised to enhance and develop service delivery. To be responsible for attending CPA meetings and reviews where appropriate.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients as appropriate. Responsible for ensuring that referrals and discharges are made in accordance with relevant policy and procedures and the principles of good practice. Include elements of risk assessment in all work.
To assist the Clinical Lead and Service Manager in the on-going development and provision of Psychotherapy Services, promoting a high level of clinical practice to ensure a needs-led service.
To facilitate other team members work with service users through joint work and supervision.
To manage complex clinical planning, and provide specialist consultation, advice and guidance to other professionals. The post holder will attend training and monthly supervision for their clinical work and will be expected to contribute to the supervision of others. This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with highly complex, emotive and often conflict issues.
To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping and to adhere to policies and procedures as defined by the Trust and Other Statutory Bodies and to adhere to professional ethical standards and codes of practice of professional bodies and UKCP or HCPC. To provide comprehensive reports as required.
Demonstrate awareness of research and its application to clinical practice.
Ensure that appropriate feedback on work is provided to relevant stakeholders/referrers/researchers, and that feedback from service users is utilised to enhance and develop service delivery.
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Person Specification
Physical Attributes
Essential
* Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
* A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Training
Essential
* Approved Clinical Supervisor.
* Post qualification training to demonstrate competency to work across a number of modalities.
* Evidence of recent and relevant continuous professional development.
Special Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* Advanced knowledge and skills in using the complete range of approaches within psycho therapeutic practice as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.
* Highly developed skills in live supervision of both psychotherapists and multi-disciplinary colleagues.
* A highly developed ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, in order to convey complex and clinically sensitive information to service users of all ages and to a wide range of professionals.
* Ability to prioritise case referrals, assess and discharge effectively on an autonomous basis or within the multidisciplinary team.
* Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment.
* Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical violence.
* Information technology and word processing skills.
* Skills in the use of video equipment.
* Ability to work with a culturally diverse community.
* Sufficient knowledge of other modalities to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients.
* Ability to identify and employ as appropriate, Clinical Governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
* Understanding of the ethical guidelines in all areas of professional conduct.
* Ability to make evidence based therapeutic interventions.
* Awareness of current relevant legislation and National Service frameworks and their implications for clinical practice.
* Understanding of risk assessment and management.
* Excellent communication and liaison skills.
* Problem solving skills.
* Ability to work autonomously making decisions based on sound judgement and to set appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethical guidelines and Trust policies.
* Excellent report writing skills.
* Ability to manage working in situations of acute distress e.g. clients experience of physical, sexual and emotional abuse client starvation and self-harm.
Desirable
* Research awareness.
* Working with service users with complex needs.
* Knowledge of associated legislation Care Programme Approach.
Experience
Essential
* Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with users of the service.
* Substantial experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Ability to prioritise case referrals, assessment and discharge effectively on an individual basis or within multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
* Specialist expertise in particular areas Group work experience.
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered qualification in core mental health/social welfare profession.
* Qualifying level course in Psychotherapy or equivalent at Masters/Doctoral level.
* Registration/ Accreditation with the relevant professional/accrediting body for the model of psychotherapy relevant to this post, e.g. UKCP, ACAP, BABCP.
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Enthusiastic, self-motivated team player.
* Teaching skills.
* Physical stamina to support clinical caseload which requires intense concentration whilst sitting with client groups or in video screen rooms observing clients for prolonged periods.
* Emotional stamina and ability to respond constructively in highly stressful situations where individuals hold very different perspectives and there is a high level of distress, ambiguity and conflict.
* Able to negotiate, be confident and assertive.
* Ability to work on own initiative.
* Supportive approach towards colleagues and service users.
* Able to maintain professional boundaries and conduct.
* Flexible and creative approach to treatments/models of care.
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
Desirable
* A commitment to the continuous improvement of services using feedback from individual clients, families, user surveys and clinical research.
* A demonstrated interest in supporting the development of the field through participation in professional bodies and activities.
Employer details
Employer name
Address
8 Fox View Hub
Dewsbury District Hospital Halifax Road
Dewsbury
WF13 4AD
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