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Job summary

We are seeking to recruit a child psychotherapist/parent-infant psychotherapist/parent-infant clinical/ counselling psychologist to support on the further development and leadership of the parent infant pathway. The successful candidate will offer mothers/parents and babies under the service the provision of high-quality parent infant therapeutic interventions. The post holder will provide a specialist psychological service with a focus on infant mental health and parent-infant relationships. This will include parent infant/psychological assessments, risk assessments, formulations and highly specialist advice on the care, treatment and management of clinical cases.

We are a trust wide service which is based at Queen Mary's hospital and consists of a multidisciplinary team of professionals. We offer a community service for pregnant and postnatal women with severe and complex mental health difficulties.

In line with the long-term plan, the service will be developing its interventions with couples, co-parents and piloting working with families up to 24 months. It is an exciting time to join our teams as each borough has recently been awarded national funding for the expansion of their services.

Main duties of the job

The Oxleas Perinatal Mental Health Service are expanding and to meet the NHS Perinatal Long Term Plan ambitions we are recruiting a child psychotherapist/parent-infant psychotherapist/parent-infant clinical/ counselling psychologist to join the Greenwich team. The Oxleas Perinatal mental Health Team is a trust wide service which is based at Queen Mary's hospital and consists of a multidisciplinary team of professionals, including consultant psychiatrists, specialist perinatal nurses, clinical/counselling psychologists, CBT therapists, nursery nurses and occupational therapists. We offer a community service for pregnant and postnatal women with severe and complex mental health difficulties. The team has close links with other services, including IAPT, secondary care mental health teams and maternity as well as third sector organisations. We work collaboratively with other services ( maternity service and health visiting) and with experts by experience to continue to provide high quality care and are committed to ensure excellent outcomes for women and their families.

Oxleas has a strong tradition in promoting psychological therapies and has a network of Child Psychotherapists and Psychologists across the Trust. The Child Psychotherapists meet termly for a Trust wide meeting which includes CPD and facilitate an annual Child Psychotherapy Conference.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

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Job responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.

Qualification

Essential

Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist

Knowledge

Essential

Highly-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.

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