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Trosolwg o'r swydd

CNWL Parent-Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS) is an exciting new service being developed in Brent as part of the Start4Life Programme. We are looking for a Lead Parent-Infant Psychotherapist to manage and develop this new team. The post-holder will lead the MDT, and work closely with the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to develop the service. The post-holder will be based in Brent CAMHS and will have clinics in the community and in Family Hubs across Brent.

In line with the Start for Life Programme, the service will offer support to infants in the first two years of life with mild, moderate or severe mental and emotional health needs, and their parents/carers in the first two years postpartum who have mild to moderate mental health concerns, past or present, that causes a risk to the parent-infant relationship. This service also extends to fathers, co-parents and the overall familial relationship with the infant, with the infant remaining the focus of the work.

The service will be delivered by a MDT consisting of a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, a Lead Parent-Infant Psychotherapist, two Parent-Infant Psychotherapists and an Assistant Psychotherapist.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

• To lead the systematic provision of a high quality, highly specialist parent-infant psychotherapy service to clients of the CNWL PIMH service, across all sectors of care.
• To provide specialist, Parent-Infant interventions, including developing group work within the community, and/or virtually, and will contribute to implementing care plans for families with a range of mental health and social and emotional difficulties, particularly focusing on providing interventions flexibly which are adapted to the needs of infants and their mothers/carers in complex and varying degrees of illness and distress.
• To provide clinical supervision to parent-infant psychotherapists.
•  To undertake and supervise highly specialist parent-infant psychotherapy assessment and treatments to service users, and support and signposting to families. 
• To supervise and support the parent-infant assessment and treatment of patients provided by the psychotherapists, which are adapted to the needs of patients.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service and teams.
• To conduct, promote and facilitate audit and research within the perinatal field.
• To act as a specialist resource to the wider Trust and across the National professional community.
• To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

This post necessitates working directly and indirectly with women who have vulnerable infants and are experiencing complex and severe mental health difficulties. Some clients/patients may be difficult to engage and their behaviour may significantly challenge the integrity and welfare of the post holder. The post also necessitates the post holder to travel regularly across Brent and when necessary, to local community amenities or independent sector establishments often transporting test materials, audio-visual and IT equipment. Working in a leadership role within a multidisciplinary context, the post holder may be required to address challenging team dynamics/conflicts of interest, restricted working environments and undertake generic roles and responsibilities.