This is a full time post for a Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Band 7) to join the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (WFT-P) for 11 months. The WFT-P is a highly specialist service offering psychological therapy to families during pregnancy and with babies, toddlers and children up to the age of 5 years.The team comprises of Clinical Psychology, Child and Educational Psychology, Systemic Family Psychotherapy, Child Psychotherapy and Psychiatry. The team is set up to work with families who might fall through the gaps in other services and/or have a complex relationship to help. The WFT-P is co-located within Camden Children Centre Services and is designed to work closely with other early years professionals including, Family Support, Social Work and Health Visiting., The WFT-P specialises in working with families facing complex difficulties, who may be working with several professionals and may struggle to access community services. We provide specialist interventions for families where there are issues related to complex trauma and attachment. In addition to offering direct interventions, the WFS offers a large amount of consultation and risk support (under the thrive model) to other professionals working with children, young people and their families. The post will involve offering consultation, assessment and intervention to families referred to the service.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.

The Tavistock and Portman is caring, compassionate and committed to co-creating the care and training we offer. We are passionate about the quality of our work and committed to openness, the use of evidence and the application of improvement science. We value all our staff, are concerned for their wellbeing, and seek to foster leadership, innovation and excellence in our workforce. We embrace diversity in our workforce and work to make our services and training as accessible as possible.