# Perinatal Parent Infant Therapist/Adult Psychotherapist/Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

**Company**: South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic Perinatal Parent Infant Therapist/Adult Psychotherapist/Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our specialist community perinatal mental health service. The successful candidate will support our parent-infant pathway and provide highly specialist psychological care to parents and their infants experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

The post holder will have a proven interest in working with parents and infants and knowledge of infant and adult mental health. Training as a parent-infant therapist is desirable but not essential. Appropriate specialist clinical and professional supervision and opportunities for training and development will be made available.

**Main Duties of the Job:**

- Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments and interventions to service users and their infants

- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for managing an identified caseload of parents and infants with complex psychological problems

- Enable staff and service users to flourish by creating a psychologically safe and responsive environment

- Provide consultation to other members of the MDT and wider professional networks

- Undertake service evaluation, research, and policy development

- Work collaboratively as a member of the multi-disciplinary team

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of parent-infant dyads

- Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of difficulties within the parent-infant relationship

- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options

- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients

- Provide specialist psychotherapeutic advice, guidance, consultation, and training to other professionals

**Requirements:**

- Full/Completed training in Adult Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy or Child Psychotherapy or Systemic Family Therapy OR Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

- Professional registration with HCPC, UKCP, BPC, or ACP

- Experience of parent-infant observation as part of training and/or clinical work

- Experience of formulating difficulties within the parent-infant relationship

- Experience of drawing upon attachment models and parent-infant relational models

**Benefits:**

- Flexible working

- Career development

- Variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment

## Skills

### Required
- Psychotherapy
- Parent-Infant Therapy
- Mental Health
- Attachment Models
- Psychological Assessment

### Nice to have
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training
- Video Interventions
- Circle of Security Parenting

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