Parent Infant Practitioner

Main area Parent-Infant Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract 24 months (2 year fixed term; secondment could be considered) HoursFull timePart time4 sessions per week (1.6wte - could be 2x 4 days a week or 1x 5days and 1 x 3 days) Job ref 270-TG576-ACSEmployer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Northants Family Hubs and communities: Wellingborough, East Northants, Kettering and Corby. Team Base Newland House Town Northampton Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/12/2025 23:59NHS AfC: Band 5Job overviewNorth Northants Family Hubs has commissioned NHFT's Best Start in Life Service Nurturing Families Pathway to put in place a new programme of support for families to promote Parent-Infant relationships during pregnancy and the first two years of life.This new programme will include a particular focus on supporting Fathers, Co-Parents and Father-figures to form strong, nurturing attachments with their infants.Based on the ethos and principles of our existing Nurturing Families Pathway programmes: Family Nurse Partnership, Family Steps and Tiny Steps, the Parent and Infant Relationship Service will be strengths based, working with parent's and those in a parenting role to achieve their own aspirations and goals in their relationship with their baby.The programme will include 1:1 and group based interventions to support families to achieve the changes they aim for.You will be supported by regular and robust clinical supervision; case discussion; team learning and skills development sessions.Main duties of the jobThis clinical role will work directly with parents to support them in building strong, nurturing, responsive and attuned relationships with their babies. You will have a strengths based approach and be adept at identifying the features of nurturing communication in the parent-infant dyad so that you can reflect these back and promote parental self-efficacy and confidence.You will have the knowledge and skills to work with parents and infants to promote parent and infant mental health; support responsive communication; promote parent and infant attachment and confidently amplify the infants voice and support parents to recognise and respond to infant cues.You will be flexible, approachable, empathetic and a confident communicator.You will have good knowledge of attachment theory; child development; infant communication; adult and infant mental health and experience in identifying the features of warm, responsive and attuned parenting.You will be committed to agenda matching with clients and taking a family centred approach.You will be open to new learning and reflective practice.Working for our organisationNHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesFor further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.Person specificationExperienceCommunity ExperienceKnowledgeCommunity Nursery Nurse or Paediatric NurseAdditional related coursesBy completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.Employer certification / accreditation badgesThis 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr