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