Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist in Parent Infant Relations
The current 0-5 Tri-borough pathway in Enfield CAMHS is set up as 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 the team that works with children aged 2-5. The 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 goes from universal offer to specialist interventions. The service works in partnership with all the services involved with families who are pregnant or have an infant/young child under the age of 5.
Main duties of the job
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 demonstrate a commitment to perinatal and parent-infant/infant mental health and have 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 growing knowledge and skills regarding infant mental health across the early years system by offering consultation, advice, and delivering training across the network. This post will involve travelling between 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).
Job responsibilities
* Provide highly specialised assessment and formulation to parents and their infants and/or children under the age of 5.
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
* Competent in the use of relevant screening and assessment tools.
* Formulate, offer, deliver, and review psycho-social interventions (including 1:1 therapy and group programs).
* Deliver individualised evidence-based care packages where indicated.
* Assist in the continuing development of a high-quality service underpinned by evidence-based practice, care pathways, and NICE and DH guidance.
* Responsible for the initial assessment process, as well as observation and ongoing comprehensive and specialist assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback.
* Provide parent-infant supervision where required and support the growing knowledge and skills regarding infant mental health across the early years system.
* Assess service users' response to activities in accordance with agreed models of practice.
* Competent in assessing risk to infants and parents when working with relational difficulties.
* Confident in identifying safeguarding risk to the infant and risk management of the parent/infant relationship. Communicate with the team and the wider network when risk is identified.
* Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner complex/sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care, monitoring and evaluating progress during the course of their care.
* Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the services, across all settings and agencies serving the client group e.g. parents and their infants.
* Responsible for recording all patient-related activity information onto Trust reporting systems.
Person Specification
Main
* Doctoral level training in Clinical, Educational or Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC and BPS OR Practising Child and Adolescent or Parent-Infant Psychotherapist who is a fully qualified registered member of the relevant accrediting body e.g. UKCP, ACP, BPC or BACP OR Systemic therapist.
* Completed a training course in specialised parent-infant interventions (i.e. CoS, VIG or VIPP).
* Experience of working in a mental health setting, managing, and monitoring risk.
* Perinatal Clinical Psychologist Training.
* Post qualification training in Infant Mental Health e.g. Parent Infant Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Approaches, and Parent-Infant Group Approaches, Infant Observation.
* Experience of drawing upon attachment models and parent-infant relational models.
Second
* Able to organize, plan, and prioritize your own workload. Demonstrates ability to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of parent-infant dyads with severe and complex relational difficulties.
* Experience of formulating the difficulties within the parent-infant relationship based on a variety of assessments including observation of the dyad, where formulations integrate information from a range of sources.
* Understanding of evidence-based clinical practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences good clinical practice.
* Confident and experienced in delivering training or providing consultation to other professionals.
* Knowledge of NICE guidelines related to infant mental health and evidence of working in line with NICE recommendations.
Third
* Experience of working in or with community perinatal teams or midwife teams and understanding of maternal and paternal mental health.
* A resilience to working with infants in traumatic circumstances, and to offer containment to other team members impacted by the emotional impact of the work.
* Experience of working therapeutically with children and families.
* Ability to work flexibly at different bases within the borough and occasionally outside of the borough.
* Experience of working with children/young people with social communication differences such as autism and ADHD.
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.
Enfield (Travel expected between Tri-borough sites)
£51,883 to £58,544 a year per annum Inclu HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
306-BEH-2476
Job locations
Enfield (Travel expected between Tri-borough sites)
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