Growing Together: Support for parents and young children is a unique early intervention, primary care mental health service, embedded in the Islington community. It is a partnership between Islington CAMHS and Islington Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression. Growing Together provides therapeutic support to parents and children aged 1-5 experiencing emotional distress and difficulties in relationships.

The Band 7 clinician will offer high-quality CBT, and other evidence-based clinical interventions to parents and carers experiencing mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and stress. The post holder will place high value on reaching out to service users in community settings, e.g. Children's Centres, Community Health Centres to ensure just and equitable access to services. Mentoring, further professional development, and learning will be provided to ensure the clinician can confidently offer therapy that attends to the emotional and mental health needs of both adults and children seen within the service.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of a highly innovate NHS service within a supportive and creative environment., The post involves doing outreach work in the community and linking with partnership agencies to provide consultation and training. The clinician will link to some specific Children's Centres and need to build positive relationships with staff to facilitate joint working. This post would suit someone dynamic, confident, flexible and tenacious with interest in the mental health of adults as parents and the impact of their emotional difficulties on their children's wellbeing and development.

We especially welcome applications from candidates with Adult mental health experience within an IAPT service and an interest in developing expertise in working with young children.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

At Whittington Health, we prioritise diversity, equity, and inclusion, supported by dedicated leaders who embody our values and the NHSConstitution. We believe that a truly inclusive workplace is essential for our staff to thrive and deliver the highest quality of care to our patientsand service users.At Whittington Health, we believe that every staff member should feel a sense of belonging and have the opportunity to reach their goals. We are dedicated to creating a workplace free from racism and discrimination, where joy and laughter abound as we serve those in our care.