Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit an innovative energetic senior practitioner psychologist to join our growing Under 5s pathway.Tri-Borough Under 5s 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. 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. The appointed person will hold leadership responsibilities by contributing to the supervision of junior staff, trainees and leading on service evaluation. 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 be based in Barnet with some travel to Haringey and Enfield to support and supervise colleagues within the wider Tri-Borough. The post holderwillbeexpectedtoworkcollaborativelywith other CAMHS colleagues within the pathway, families and their infants and young childrentoensurethatthey are actively involved in setting goals and planning their care, parents/carers and with colleagues in Health, Education and Social Services in planning and delivery of services. They will receive clinical supervision from the lead clinical psychologist of the service. 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. Please note that this role outline serves to provide an illustrative example of the duties and responsibilities you may be expected to undertake during the course of your normal duties. It is not an exhaustive list and you will therefore be required to undertake other responsibilities and duties that are considered to be commensurate with the band.

• To provide highly specialised assessment and formulation to parents and their infants.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• Competent in 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 that is underpinned by evidence based practice, care pathways and NICE and DH guidance
• Responsible for the initial assessment process, as well as observation and the ongoing comprehensive and specialist assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback.
• To provide parent infant supervision where required and to 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
• To be competent in assessing risk to infant and parent when working with relational difficulty.
• To be confident in identifying safeguarding risk to the infant and risk management of the parent/infant relationship. To 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, monitor and evaluate 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.
• Ensure the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation / records on all clients in line with professional code and Trust policy