Practitioner Psychologist / Psychotherapist in Parent Infant Relations

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. This post will involve travelling between family centres and the CAMHS base in Enfield and travel outside the brough to meet with other colleagues within the wider Tri-Borough (Haringey and Barnet)., The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with other CAMHS colleagues within the pathway, families and their infants and young children to ensure that they 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. In addition to direct clinical work, the post holder will be expected to offer consultation to other professionals, contribute to teaching and training of internal and external colleagues as part of our indirect clinical work offer.
+ To provide highly specialised assessment and formulation to parents and their infants and/or child under the age of 5.
+ 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.

The current 0-5 Tri-borough pathway in Enfield CAMHS is currently set 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 the 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 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.

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
+ Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
+ Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
+ Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
+ Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
+ Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
+ Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk, 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.
Why NLFT?
+ We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
+ We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
+ NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
+ Excellent internal staff network