Practitioner Psychologist / Psychotherapist in Parent Infant Relations

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., 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 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 ( 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 parents and their infants
• Responsible for recording all patient related activity information onto Trust reporting systems.
  
  oDoctoral level training in Clinical, Educational or Counselling Psychology as a ccredited by the HCPC and BPS OR oPractising Child and Adolescent or Parent-Infant Psychotherapist who is fully qualified registered member of the relevant accrediting body UKCP, ACP, BPC or BACP OR oSystemic therapist
• completed a training course in specialised parent infant interventions ( CoS, VIG or VIPP)
• oExperience of working in a mental health setting, managing, and monitoring risk
Desirable
• oPerinatal Clinical Psychologist Training
• oPost qualification training in Infant Mental Health Parent Infant Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Approaches and Parent-Infant Group Approaches, Infant Observation
• oExperience of drawing upon attachment models and parent-infant relational models.
second Essential
• o Able to organize, plan and prioritize your own workload. Demonstrates ability to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management
• o Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of parent infant dyads with severe and complex relational difficulties.
• oExperience of formulating the difficulties within the parent infant relationship based on a variety of assessments including observation of the dyad, where formulations integrate information from range of sources.
Desirable
• oUnderstanding of evidence-based clinical practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences good clinical practice.
• oConfident and experienced in delivering training or providing consultation to other professionals
• Knowledge of NICE guidelines related to infant mental health and evidence of working in line with NICE recommendations.
third Essential
• o Experience of working in or with community perinatal teams or midwife teams and understanding of maternal and paternal mental health
• oA resilience to working with infants in traumatic circumstances, and to offer containment to other team members impacted by the emotional impact of the work
• oExperience of working therapeutically with children and families
Desirable
• oAbility to work flexibly at different bases within the borough and occasionally outside of the borough
• Experience of working with children / young people with social communication differences such as autism and ADHD
  
  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 :
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 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