Parent Infant Therapist -Recruit to train

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. To ensure high quality specialist parent infant relationship mental health assessment and interventions of babies, preschool children and their families. 2. To provide or provide access to a range of quality psychotherapeutic interventions in accordance with individual assessed need. This will include the planning implementation and evaluation of a variety of therapeutic approaches either alone or as a member of the MDT. 3. To deliver therapeutic input to parents and infants referred to the team. 4. To work as a co-therapist where appropriate with other members of the team 5. To be responsible for and manage a defined caseload and undertake case management responsibilities within the caseload. 6. To identify and develop strategies to manage risk to the infant and others in line with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals and perinatal and infant mental health procedures and protocols. 7. To initiate and build working relationships with infants, children, parents, carers and families who are referred to the service. 8. To liaise closely with a wide range of agencies regarding individual care packages and to promote awareness of parent-infant mental health issues with these agencies. 9. To undertake liaison and joint work with professionals outside the MDT. 10. To provide consultation and training on a wide range of parent-infant emotional health and well-being issues to professionals from a range of services including GPs, Early Help and Primary Care services, adult mental health services, and perinatal services. 11. You will be trained to deliver VIG (Video Interaction Guidance to promote Positive Sensitive Parenting) with parents and infants showing signs of attachment difficulties. This intervention is for supporting parents to develop more attuned parenting in the context of difficulties in the parent-infant relationship. You will be assessed through written case reports, keeping a log of your clinical practice and submitting recordings of your practice with written reflections based on these. 12. To attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate. 13. To complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service. 14. To routinely monitor effectiveness of clinical work by use of Routine Outcome Measures and where outcomes are not improving for children and families to engage in peer review meetings and supervision. 15. To take part in the PaIRS service duty rota in order to provide urgent triage of parents and infants in line with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust care protocols to advise other professionals regarding risk and work with them to develop a plan of care for the parent and infant. 16. To engage in/ deliver managerial and clinical supervision, including with appropriate consent, recording and reviewing of live clinical work. 17. To keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision making. Personal 1. To identify own Continuing Professional and Personal Development needs with the Clinical Lead and/or Clinical Supervisor. 2. To maintain a current professional portfolio and participate on programmes of personal development and training, which will be identified as part of the individual performance and development review. 3. To maintain all professional registration requirements. This job description is not exhaustive but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time.