Perinatal Parent Infant Psychotherapist

NHS Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust is seeking a highly experienced psychotherapist for the Perinatal Service, focusing on pregnancy, birth and postnatal care. The role involves delivering expert assessment and psychotherapeutic treatments to women and partners with complex mental health needs.

You will work autonomously within MDT, develop outreach clinics, liaise with midwives, health visitors and other professionals, and contribute to audit, policy and research as part of a

Responsibilities

• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge.
• Provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessments and treatment plans.
• Develop parent-infant psychotherapeutic interventions and group work.
• Collaborate with MDT, discuss diagnosis/formulation and risk management.

Job description

JOB PURPOSE AND REQUIREMENTS

The post requires a flexible approach with a broad range of applied psychotherapeutic techniques, given the variety and time specific nature of treatment during pregnancy, around birth and in the postnatal first year. The post holder needs to have had experience in the field of perinatal mental health, in particular parent-infant interventions in complex high risk cases. The postholder will require the skills to develop outreach clinics for pregnant and postnatal women with mental health problems whilst working as an autonomous practitioner. The post will require a good communicator, skilled in liaison as well as an experienced clinician who would be able to offer advice and consultation to midwives and health visitors and other relevant professionals working in the community. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological assessment and psychotherapy treatment plan for women and their partners during the perinatal period. Patients with moderate and severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems are seen within this service. The work will include offering an opinion on diagnosis/formulation to patients seen within the Perinatal Service in discussion with the Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist. To provide the particular highly specialist areas of expertise gained in post qualification specialist training to perinatal patients who present with complex and persistent mental health problems within the perinatal period. To provide advice and consultation from a psychological perspective around parent infant relationship and the psychotherapeutic care psychological care to psychologist and non‑psychologist colleagues, and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. To be informed by evidence‑based practice and participate in audit, policy, service development and research within the team To work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. To undertake and oversee audit and research activity in the sector. To offer highly specialised clinical work both assessment and treatment in the Perinatal Service to distressed pregnant and postnatal women who are suffering from perinatal mental health disorders.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES

3.1 Clinical: To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by MDT andpsychotherapeutic based care plans ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and intervention. To communicate with the referral agents and others involved with the patients care on a regular basis. To provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic, assessments including biopsychosocial assessments. To formulate and devise parent-infant psychotherapeutic treatment and management plans for referred patients and to provide psychotherapeutic treatment, using specialist methods and techniques as appropriate to the service. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both: Theoretical and therapeutic models Highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To offer the most appropriate treatment for patients in co‑operation with other members of the multidisciplinary team. To offer highly specialist interventions for severely disturbed mother-infant attachment in the antenatal and postnatal period. To provide highly specialist intervention during the post‑partum period to mothers and their babies and/or the parental couple and their infant. To develop group therapeutic interventions with new mothers and their infants. To act as a Lead Professional for the client, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, co‑ordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging clients care reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in care; and to monitor progress during the course of multi‑disciplinary interventions. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, in line with Trust and inter‑agency policies and procedures with the aim of overall risk reduction.

£58,133 - £65,261 per annum Inclusive of Inner London HCAs

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust

£66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust