Parent-Infant Psychotherapist

CNWL Parent-Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS) is an exciting new service being developed in Brent. We are looking for a Parent-Infant Psychotherapist to join this new team. The post-holder will be based in Brent CAMHS and will have clinics in the community and in Family Hubs across Brent.
In line with the Start 4 Life Programme, the service will offer support to infants in the first two years of life with mild, moderate or severe mental and emotional health needs, and their mothers in the first two years postpartum; who have mild to moderate mental health concerns past or present, risking the mother-infant relationship. This service also extends to fathers, co-parents and the overall familial relationship with the infant, with the infant remaining the focus of the work.
The service will be delivered by a MDT consisting of a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, a Lead Parent-Infant Psychotherapist, a Senior-Parent Infant Psychotherapist, two Parent-Infant Psychotherapists, and an Assistant Psychotherapist.
To participate in the development of an effective PIMHS team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
To be responsible for the assessment and treatment of families allocated to them within the context of the multi-disciplinary U5s CAMHS team.
To be directly involved in delivering specific Parent-Infant psychological interventions to infants and parents to promote the quality of parent-infant relationships. This may also include brief parent work, group work, short term generic CAMHS input, video work (e.g. video interactive guidance), consultation, offering teaching and training and joint working with multiagency colleagues.
To be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
To participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identify improvements to service provision.
To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
To contribute to the training experience of trainee psychotherapists and students from other disciples on placement, as appropriate.
To receive regular clinical and service related supervision from a Consultant/Lead Parent-Infant Psychotherapist within the Brent U5 CAMHS Team.
To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines.
This post necessitates working directly and indirectly with women who have vulnerable infants and are experiencing complex and severe mental health difficulties. Some clients/patients may be difficult to engage and their behaviour may significantly challenge the integrity and welfare of the post holder. The post also necessitates the post holder to travel regularly across Brent and when necessary, to local community amenities or independent sector establishments often transporting test materials, audio-visual and IT equipment., To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Parent-Infant psychotherapy assessment and treatment to service users, and support and signposting to parents, to promote the quality of parent-infant relationships
To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of parents with a range of mental health and social and emotional difficulties, particularly focussing on providing interventions flexibly which are adapted to the needs of infants and their mothers/carers in complex and varying degrees of illness and distress.
To offer consultation, teaching and training on Parent-Infant mental health and Attachment to multidisciplinary colleagues as required.
To contribute to audit and research.
To actively engage in outcome monitoring, including the use of normed routine outcome measures associated with CYP IAPT where appropriate.
To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework of the CAMHS Directorate's and the Trust's policies and procedures