Parent Infant Psychotherapist OR Family Systemic Psychotherapist

The successful Parent Infant Psychotherapist or Family Systemic Psychotherapist will join our Tri-borough 0-5s Pathway. The pathway in Enfield CAMHS is currently made up of a small, developing team which has combined the Enfield Parent Infant Partnership (EPIP) team who work together with parents and their babies up to the age of 2 and a wider team that work with children aged 2-5. 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. It is part of an Early Years provision that ranges from universal offer to specialist interventions. The service works in partnership with other 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 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. Thispostwill involve travellingbetween 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.