Parent Infant Psychotherapist

The South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team on a secondment working 24 hours per week. The post is agile and hours/working days can be agreed to suit the successful applicant.

We are a multi-disciplinary team working across the Trusts footprint: Calderdale, Kirklees, Huddersfield and Barnsley. This post is to cover Wakefield.

We are looking to recruit a Parent Infant Psychotherapist who is interested in working with mothers during pregnancy, birth, and in the first two years of the mother/baby relationship, to promote and provide interventions to support positive bonding and attachment.

All applicants must have excellent clinical skills and confidence and enthusiasm for working with perinatal partner agencies in networks that extend beyond traditional specialist mental health boundaries.

We welcome applications from suitably qualified and registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and Highly Specialised Psychotherapists. We support continuing professional development. The successful candidate will have access to specialist supervision.

See Job Descriptions and Person Specifications for qualifications and experience required.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for women and their babies experiencing complex mental health issues during pregnancy and up to the baby being two years of age.

Any parent infant work undertaken is planned in the context of the multi-disciplinary provision, and perinatal network, and inclusive of the mother and baby wider comprehensive needs.

The post involves providing clinical supervision to multidisciplinary colleagues and requires excellent communication skills alongside competence in working with and managing risk in relation to both mother and baby. It also provides an opportunity to offer consultation within the service and to other professionals working within the Perinatal network.

The Service operates Mon-Fri 9am-5pm however successful applicants would be expected to have the flexibility to work occasional extended hours to facilitate service effectiveness. Car driver essential.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.