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Job summary

Main area
Clinical Psychology/ Parent Infant Psychotherapy
Grade
8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-2083
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Tynemouth Road Health Centre
Town
London
Salary
£49,178 - £62,785 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/05/2024 23:59

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Clinical Psychologist / Parent Infant Psychotherapist

8a

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen as a result of Start for Life funding to join the well established and valued Parent Infant Psychology Service in Haringey, known as PIPS.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic clinical psychologist or parent infant psychotherapist to head up our multidisciplinary  Family Hub team, who comprise of experienced colleagues from midwifery and family nurse partnership.

Main duties of the job

In addition to managing the Family Hub team colleagues, the post will also have clinical sessions to offer parents and babies in the community, and scope to develop therapeutic work.

There is an outreach aspect to this role, and a chance to link with many interesting peer support services and outreach work offered in the borough. We are also considering where we want to develop parent infant therapy for vulnerable babies who have been born premature /spent time in NICU and SCBU and would benefit from therapeutic input on leaving hospital.

 

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main responsibilities are ensuring a well led and supported multidisciplinary team who are offering innovative and evidence based interventions to parents and babies through the Family Hubs. These include Solihull Antenatal groups, post natal groups for parents and babies, use of VIG with parents and babies and other parent infant support.

There is a training and consultation focus to this post, ensuring that partner agencies feel more confident in assessing and thinking about parents and infant mental health, and helping to triage therapeutic work.

There are opportunities to strengthen our outreach offer and work with partner agencies to develop their therapeutic offer to families in the borough with under 2s.

The successful candidate will be joining a well established Parent Infant Psychology service of Clinical Psychologists and Parent Infant Psychotherapy.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Clinical Psychology training / Parent Infant Psychotherapy training and at least 5 years experience of work with parents and infants
  • Experience of supervising others
  • Experience of working with vulnerable parents and babies
  • Strong understanding of safeguarding in this specialist work
Desirable criteria
  • Additional training and experience in parent infant models such as VIG, systemic training
  • Interest in outreach and innovation in delivering therapy in community settings

essential

Essential criteria
  • Working with third sector and outreach teams to enhance parent infant mental health awareness
  • Interest and experience in training and consulting with other partner agencies
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of developing clinical pathways
  • Experience of offering reflective practice and peer supervision

desirable

Essential criteria
  • Additional parent infant therapeutic training, eg VIG, Watch Wait & Wonder, CARE Index
Desirable criteria
  • experience of working in community settings such as childrens centres, Sure Start, nurseries

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Paula Magee
Job title
Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07957319311
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