Job summary
Are you passionate about infant and pre-school child development and looking for something different? Then now is the time to come and work for NSFT Ages birth up to 4th birthday Parent Infant Mental Health service.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Family Therapist/ Systemic Psychotherapist to join Norfolk and Waveney parent and infant relationship service, to cover a period of maternity leave within the service.
The successful candidate will need to be a fully accredited Systemic and Family Psychotherapist with appropriate professional body. The applicant must have a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in working with parents and children and have and significant experience working with families with child protection/contact with social services.
Main duties of the job
You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and partner organisations to improve the emotional health and development of infants and pre-school children who are experiencing emotional difficulties, through dyadic or family-based interventions. The role will include providing therapy for parents and babies and children under four years of age, providing clinical supervision to trainee psychotherapists and parent infant practitioners and providing consultation and training to a variety of professionals and agencies.
The post holder will be offering an enhanced intervention function around parent infant relationship difficulties, whilst considering the Thrive Framework domains of 'Getting More help' and 'Getting Risk Support'(Wolpert et al., 2019). Due to the age of the infants referred into PAIRS, this is an exciting opportunity to consider pre-verbal infants within family therapy work.
The position will require you to be a dynamic and solution-focused team player who is passionate about high quality care. You will be outcome driven and able to work collaboratively with our organisational partners across Family Hub Services, Perinatal Services, CAMHS, Healthy Child Programme, Early Childhood and Family Service, Adult Community Mental Health Services, Health Visiting, and other agencies to deliver a unified and safe service to babies, young children and their parents or carers.
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters or Doctorate qualification in Child or Infant Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy or Clinical/ Counselling Psychology
- Professional registration
- 2 years post qualification experience in working with parents and children.
Desirable
- Experience of psychodynamic infant observation training
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of infant mental health and attachment theories.
- Knowledge of the dynamics of family relationships.
- Knowledge of mental health practice from previous professional experience
Skills
Essential
- Experience of working with parents and children together in session
- Experience of working with professionals from a range of backgrounds in multi-agency contexts
- Knowledge of a range of psychosocial interventions, their appropriateness and effectiveness
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters or Doctorate qualification in Child or Infant Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy or Clinical/ Counselling Psychology
- Professional registration
- 2 years post qualification experience in working with parents and children.
Desirable
- Experience of psychodynamic infant observation training
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of infant mental health and attachment theories.
- Knowledge of the dynamics of family relationships.
- Knowledge of mental health practice from previous professional experience
Skills
Essential
- Experience of working with parents and children together in session
- Experience of working with professionals from a range of backgrounds in multi-agency contexts
- Knowledge of a range of psychosocial interventions, their appropriateness and effectiveness
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
