Job summary
To contribute to the development of a highly specialist parent infant therapeutic service for women who are pregnant, or up to 2 years postnatal, with, or at risk of, a wide range of mental health problems, including complex and severe (including postnatal depression and psychosis).
Responsible for offering advice and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team, liaising with colleagues within the inpatient mother and baby unit, the community psychology and psychotherapy service, as well as non-professional carers and other agencies on matters related to the psychological needs of parent/ infant dyads and issues relevant to the service and its users.
Main duties of the job
The team serves the county of Hertfordshire, supporting women with moderate to severe mental health needs, through pregnancy and the postnatal period as well as working closely with maternity staff and providers of primary, secondary and inpatient care. You will have responsibility for offering parent infant interventions to families living in Hertfordshire.
As a Band 8A Parent Infant Therapist you will be an active member of a skilled multi-disciplinary team. You will join a small group of Parent Infant Therapists and work together to provide tailored interventions in the critical perinatal period in our county-wide service. We work out in the community directly delivering care in people's homes and the local community; you will receive specialist supervision and support for your development from the Clinical Lead for Parent Infant Interventions and the Community Perinatal Service Manager.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedures.To be responsible for the provision of parent infant therapies such as VideoInteraction Guidance (VIG) therapy to women with complex and severemental health difficulties under the CPT, as part of the multidisciplinary team working within a specialist clinical area
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on..."
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist parent infanttherapeutic service to clients with mental health problems during theperinatal period.To provide expertise in a specialist clinical or research area and to offeradvice and consultation on clients psychological care to other members ofthe teams in relation to the area of parental and infant mental healthTo work closely with the local psychologist teams, and the range ofpsychological therapy colleagues within the service settingTo work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary teamTo work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trustpolicies and proceduresTo propose and implement policy and service development, undertakeresearch, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and to contribute to the training of clinical/counselling psychologists and others
For a more detailed Job and Person Specification please read attached before applying
The post holder will be required to commute across sites and attend homevisits.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist parent infanttherapeutic service to clients with mental health problems during theperinatal period.To provide expertise in a specialist clinical or research area and to offeradvice and consultation on clients psychological care to other members ofthe teams in relation to the area of parental and infant mental healthTo work closely with the local psychologist teams, and the range ofpsychological therapy colleagues within the service settingTo work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary teamTo work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trustpolicies and proceduresTo propose and implement policy and service development, undertakeresearch, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and to contribute to the training of clinical/counselling psychologists and others
For a more detailed Job and Person Specification please read attached before applying
The post holder will be required to commute across sites and attend homevisits.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist or as a child and adolescent psychotherapist or Systemic therapist or in a core profession such as Occupational Therapy / nursing / social work Or Completed training in one of the following: - Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (AFNCCF) Specialist training in Psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy (PPIP) - School of Infant Mental Health - Diploma In Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - OXPIP/NORPIP - Parent -Infant Therapist Diploma - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy And current professional clinical registration with a recognised professional body such as HCPC, UKCP, BPC, ACP
- Experienced in a full -time post -registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of parent infant dyads with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Full registration with relevant professional body such as HCPC , NMC, ACP
- Post qualification training in one or more additional specialised parent infant interventions
Desirable
- Full accreditation as a Video Interaction Guidance practitioner.
Experience
Essential
- Experience 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
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of parent infant dyads with severe and complex relational difficulties. .
- Experience of working with clients with complex and enduring mental health problems including: severe depression and psychosis and personality difficulties.
- Experience of working with women who are pregnant .
- In depth knowledge of child development and factors influencing the developing parent infant relationship
- Experience of drawing upon attachment models and parent-infant relational models.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific, difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with comorbid conditions: physical health, social complexity, psychologically complex histories)
- Demonstrate specialist clinical experience and training in the field of infant mental health/ Early Years work, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of therapeutic work in this field
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of other mental health professionals
Desirable
- Experience of using VIG in a clinical setting
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist or as a child and adolescent psychotherapist or Systemic therapist or in a core profession such as Occupational Therapy / nursing / social work Or Completed training in one of the following: - Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (AFNCCF) Specialist training in Psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy (PPIP) - School of Infant Mental Health - Diploma In Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - OXPIP/NORPIP - Parent -Infant Therapist Diploma - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy And current professional clinical registration with a recognised professional body such as HCPC, UKCP, BPC, ACP
- Experienced in a full -time post -registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of parent infant dyads with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Full registration with relevant professional body such as HCPC , NMC, ACP
- Post qualification training in one or more additional specialised parent infant interventions
Desirable
- Full accreditation as a Video Interaction Guidance practitioner.
Experience
Essential
- Experience 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
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of parent infant dyads with severe and complex relational difficulties. .
- Experience of working with clients with complex and enduring mental health problems including: severe depression and psychosis and personality difficulties.
- Experience of working with women who are pregnant .
- In depth knowledge of child development and factors influencing the developing parent infant relationship
- Experience of drawing upon attachment models and parent-infant relational models.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific, difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with comorbid conditions: physical health, social complexity, psychologically complex histories)
- Demonstrate specialist clinical experience and training in the field of infant mental health/ Early Years work, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of therapeutic work in this field
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of other mental health professionals
Desirable
- Experience of using VIG in a clinical setting
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
