A Vacancy at 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you passionate about early intervention and giving children the best start in life? We are looking for a Child and Adolescent psychotherapist or Family Systemic Psychotherapist with Parent-Infant experience to join our multi-disciplinary team dedicated to offering relationally- focused mental health support to children and their parents in the early years.
Our 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. You would be working as part of our commissioned Enfield Parent Infant Partnership (EPIP) team to work with parents and their babies up to the age of 2, whilst contributing to the work of the wider team who work up to age 5 years. The provision works closely in partnership with other services across the borough that support under-5s, such as education, health visiting and social care.
Flexible working requests can be considered.
Note that if there is a high level of interest in this post it may close before the stated deadline date.
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. 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).
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
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 client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their family’s 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.
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Feb 2025