Perinatal Parent Infant Psychotherapist

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The post-holder will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in Brent & Harrow Perinatal Mental Health Service and will provide a qualified parent infant psychotherapy service to women referred into or under the care of the team. Under the supervision of a senior perinatal clinical psychologist and the senior parent infant psychotherapist, they will provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and support and signposting to their families/carers. They will provide advice and consultation on the care of parent-infant dyads to non-psychotherapy colleagues and to the professional network involved in treating and caring for women and their infants under the care of Brent & Harrow PMHS. The post holder will be supported and supervised and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and may undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to women and their babies under the care of the perinatal mental health service.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The post holder will provide specialist psychotherapeutic interventions and will contribute to implementing care plans for women and their babies with a range of mental health and social and emotional difficulties, particularly focusing on providing evidence based psychotherapeutic interventions to both individual dyads and to groups which are adapted to the needs of women and babies in complex and varying degrees of illness and distress.

The post holder will provide advice and consultation on infant observation and infant mental health to non-psychology colleagues and to the professional network involved in treating and caring for infants and parents treated within the service.

The post-holder will be expected to attend weekly team meetings and case discussion forums. The post-holder will support the team in assessing the emotional and developmental needs of the infants of patients referred to the service, ensuring that their psychological needs and related factors such as for example the parental relationship are given due consideration within the care planning process.

The post-holder will liaise closely with relevant mental health services local to the patient, such as the CAMHS, IAPT, Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams, etc. so as to ensure efficient and seamless patient care pathways.

CNWL has established a high-quality multidisciplinary community and liaison perinatal mental health service across five London Boroughs,

CNWL Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) comprises specialist multidisciplinary perinatal mental health teams five boroughs served by the trust (Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster) enabling the delivery of evidence based perinatal mental health care through a coordinated multidisciplinary specialist approach across maternity, primary and secondary care, tertiary specialist services, social care and voluntary sector.

You will join a team that delivers specialist community perinatal mental health service (PMHS), which integrate maternity services, community and primary care services. We respond rapidly to presentations within the maternity context and address the risks to both mothers and infants of perinatal illness We focus on prevention, early detection with NICE guidelines and based in the community, close to mothers and babies.
- Provide assessments of referred parent-infant dyads based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
- To assist in the provision of an efficient, effective psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment service for babies of patients with moderate and severe, highly complex mental health problems, whose difficulties impact on parent-infant relationship. This may be as sole practitioner or in collaboration with other team members such as OT’s, psychiatrists, psychologists and nursery nurses.
- The work will include offering observations and subsequent to these, opinions on formulation of infant mental health and relational difficulties between infants and parents seen within the perinatal service.
- To offer highly specialised perinatal and parent-infant clinical assessment and treatment in the Perinatal Service to distressed pregnant and postnatal women who are suffering from a wide range of disorders including antenatal and postnatal depression and anxiety as well as emotional difficulties associated with traumatic delivery, perinatal loss, and disturbed attachment and bonding.
- To offer psychotherapy and parent-infant psychother

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