Job summary
We are looking for a highly specialist Child Psychotherapist/ Parent infant Psychotherapist, for this much valued and successful post.
City & Hackney are a trailblazer site for the national Perinatal workstream of the Family Hubs project. We have agreed funding for two senior full-time posts in PIP, working alongside the postholder to extend our system's work in supporting a Solihul Approach locally. The postholder will be an important member of this exciting development.
The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service with clinical cases, providing teaching, consultation and training.
The post holder will hold a small caseload, including Under 5 transition cases from perinatal services within the Emotional and Behavioural Team (E&B) in City & Hackney CAMHS (2 sessions) alongside the shared systemic therapist post holder working in perinatal service and E&B.
The post holder will work alongside a vibrant Child Psychotherapy Team to promote and integrate infant mental health across the CAMHS service.
This is an exciting and rewarding post and we are looking for an experienced Clinician to take forward the outstanding work established by the former post holder.
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist peri-natal assessment and treatment service within City & Hackney CAMHS, (8/10 sessions) enhancing existing maternal, perinatal and early years health services and parenting programmes to strengthen attachment between parent and child, avoid early trauma, build resilience and improve behaviour by ensuring parents have access to evidence-based programmes of intervention and support.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This peri-natal post sits in City & Hackney CAMHS but offers services alongside the Adult Perinatal Mental Health service. Its purpose is to increase our ability to work with those families where there are attachment concerns, risk of trauma or experience of trauma using evidence based interventions and current best practice in this field.
The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies. Post-holders must have considerable experience in working psychoanalytically with parents and infants together, this will include working with infants at risk of emotional abuse and neglect and with emotionally and psychologically unwell parents including those parents with a diagnosis of a personality disorder.
Please see the attached job description for further information no the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This peri-natal post sits in City & Hackney CAMHS but offers services alongside the Adult Perinatal Mental Health service. Its purpose is to increase our ability to work with those families where there are attachment concerns, risk of trauma or experience of trauma using evidence based interventions and current best practice in this field.
The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies. Post-holders must have considerable experience in working psychoanalytically with parents and infants together, this will include working with infants at risk of emotional abuse and neglect and with emotionally and psychologically unwell parents including those parents with a diagnosis of a personality disorder.
Please see the attached job description for further information no the role.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy including the completion of a 2 year infant observation and personal psycho-analysis.
- Registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Further specialist training in parent-infant mental health
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- CAMH/liaison/crisis intervention diploma/degree
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working psychodynamically with parents/infants/children with serious relationship difficulties and attachment difficulties.
- Experience of working with parents diagnosed with personality disorders.
- Substantial theoretical knowledge and practical experience of the treatment of serious mental health disturbance in parents and infants and clinical experience of working with complex cases in child & adolescent mental health
Desirable
- Experience of working with LAC and adopted children.
- Teaching & training
- Evidence of managing supervisory responsibilities
- Evidence of teaching parent-infant theory/psychopathology
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Experience of psychodynamic clinical work
- Evidence of supervisory skills
- Evidence of engaging hard to reach clients
- Evidence of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Awareness of basic research procedures and capacity to conduct audit
- Ability to provide therapeutic setting for parents & infants together and to work
- Ability to communicate clearly & effectively about complex ideas both verbally & in writing
- Knowledge of new-borns, early infancy and child development including knowledge of infant mental health.
- Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child safeguarding.
- Ability to diagnose attachment disorders.
- Ability to formulate solutions and recommend the best course action/treatment
Desirable
- Experience in group work.
Other
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate a mature and reflective attitude in the clinical, supervisory and teaching domains.
- Working with troubled infants and parents is particularly challenging and containing the pain & anxieties inherent in such work requires considerable skill in maintaining and managing therapeutic boundaries. Experience of the nature of this work and the personal impact is essential
- Ability to form and maintain good working relationship in multi-disciplinary settings
- A positive attitude to issues of diversity and an ability to relate well to range of personal and cultural backgrounds
- An opens to learning new approaches and working in a variety of setting
- An interest in contributing to the development of the service.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy including the completion of a 2 year infant observation and personal psycho-analysis.
- Registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Further specialist training in parent-infant mental health
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- CAMH/liaison/crisis intervention diploma/degree
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working psychodynamically with parents/infants/children with serious relationship difficulties and attachment difficulties.
- Experience of working with parents diagnosed with personality disorders.
- Substantial theoretical knowledge and practical experience of the treatment of serious mental health disturbance in parents and infants and clinical experience of working with complex cases in child & adolescent mental health
Desirable
- Experience of working with LAC and adopted children.
- Teaching & training
- Evidence of managing supervisory responsibilities
- Evidence of teaching parent-infant theory/psychopathology
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Experience of psychodynamic clinical work
- Evidence of supervisory skills
- Evidence of engaging hard to reach clients
- Evidence of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Awareness of basic research procedures and capacity to conduct audit
- Ability to provide therapeutic setting for parents & infants together and to work
- Ability to communicate clearly & effectively about complex ideas both verbally & in writing
- Knowledge of new-borns, early infancy and child development including knowledge of infant mental health.
- Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child safeguarding.
- Ability to diagnose attachment disorders.
- Ability to formulate solutions and recommend the best course action/treatment
Desirable
- Experience in group work.
Other
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate a mature and reflective attitude in the clinical, supervisory and teaching domains.
- Working with troubled infants and parents is particularly challenging and containing the pain & anxieties inherent in such work requires considerable skill in maintaining and managing therapeutic boundaries. Experience of the nature of this work and the personal impact is essential
- Ability to form and maintain good working relationship in multi-disciplinary settings
- A positive attitude to issues of diversity and an ability to relate well to range of personal and cultural backgrounds
- An opens to learning new approaches and working in a variety of setting
- An interest in contributing to the development of the service.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
City & Hackney CAMHS
15 Homerton Row (& also Hackney Child & Family Centre)
London
E9 6ED
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
