Lead Psychotherapist
2 weeks ago
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Psychotherapist to join our team. The successful candidate will lead the development and delivery of a high-quality, specialist parent-infant psychotherapy service, working closely with the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.
About the RoleThis is an exciting opportunity to work in a new service being developed in Brent as part of the Start4Life Programme. The post-holder will be based in Brent CAMHS and will have clinics in the community and in Family Hubs across Brent.
Main Duties- 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.
- 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 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.
- Masters level preclinical training at an Association of Child Psychotherapists recognised training school; post graduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists Statement of Equivalence AND/OR Training in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy accredited by the BPC/UKCP.
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in relevant fields in health, social care or education settings.
- Able to demonstrate considerable experience of post-qualification experience.
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist for a significant time with an equally significant time at as a Grade 8a or equivalent.
- Extensive experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of infants (age 0-2) and their parents, and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of raising and managing safeguarding concerns.
- Experience of working in different CAMHS Tiers.
- Experience of working with parent-infant psychotherapy.
- Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
- Evidence of managing supervisory responsibilities, evidence of teaching about parent-infant theory and psychopathology.
- Experience of supervising clinical work within the multidisciplinary team within a Clinical and Performance Management context.
- Research interest in any topic relevant to PIMHS.
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment, intervention and management.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership.
- Knowledge of infant mental health.
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of short and long-term intervention and its application to a specialist area.
- Ability to carry out audit and research in the area of perinatal and infant mental health.
- Advanced specialist Knowledge of newborns, early infancy and child development and of theories of infant and child mental health.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies.
- Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
- Awareness of the implications of working within a managed system.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly.
- Ability to create a therapeutic milieu for parents and infants together.
- Ability to carry out audit and research.
- Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education Structures, National policies and frameworks.
- Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings.
- Awareness and understanding of basic research procedures and capacity to conduct simple audits of clinical work carried out by self and others.
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to keep accurate notes and records.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Ability to teach and train others and present the work of Parent-infant mental health within public, professional and academic settings.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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