Clinical Psychologist Infant Mental Health

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

1. Delivery of service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multi-agency context.

2. To provide specialist assessments of the parent and infant relationship of parents and infants referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect observation and interviews with family members and/or carers, and infants.

3. To formulate and implement plans for therapeutic intervention or management based on an appropriate conceptual framework, working in home, social services, community, hospital and educational settings where appropriate.

4. To provide psychological training, advice and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and to clinical psychology service provision with a particular focus on the perinatal period.

5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.

6. To contribute a specialist psychological perspective to case planning and multi-agency case conferences and reviews and call multi-professional meetings when appropriate.

7. To communicate highly complex condition-related or contentious or sensitive information where there may be significant barriers to acceptance and to manage ensuing difficult interpersonal situations in the interests of the patients welfare.

Management and service development

1. To assist in developing existing Infant Parent Services as required.

2. To assist in determining priorities for the psychology sector of the TIPS and CAMHS service.

3. To help plan, contribute and participate in, any team building process that may be seen as necessary to enhance the working efficiency of TIPS.

4. To join senior clinicians to manage the workloads of assistant psychologists working within the department.

5. To be involved in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists.

6. To attend departmental and specialist team meetings.

Teaching, Training and Supervision

1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and other professional colleagues, where appropriate.

2. To take responsibility for continuing professional development and continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of TIPS, child and adolescent clinical psychology and CAMHS service-related areas.

3. To develop skills in professional post graduate teaching and training, and deliver teaching and training to professional and non-professional groups on subjects related to the mental health needs of infants, children and their families across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate.

4. To provide case based supervision to the work of non-psychologists in delivery of psychological interventions as appropriate.

5. To provide consultation/clinical supervision as appropriate to others in TIPS, including assistant psychologists.

6. To contribute to the supervising of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists and when appropriately experienced to take full responsibility for organising a trainee placement and providing full supervision.

7. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with parents and infants across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate with a particular focus on the perinatal period and parent infant relationships..

8. To take part in annual appraisal.

Clinical Governance and Research

1. To utilise evidence-based literature and research to support effective practice.

2. To undertake project management including audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

3. To participate in evaluation of all clinical activity within the post and provide such information as required by the Head of Psychology for the purpose of service monitoring and evaluation.

4. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice as appropriate.

5. To publish research outcomes in professional recognised journals and share information on outcomes at professional conferences where appropriate.

6. To represent a professional view point in relation to nationally accepted good practice and to ensure a high level of ethical standards and professional conduct.

Person Specification

knowledge and experience

Essential

• Doctoral degree or equivalent accepted by the British Psychological Society as qualifying the person to work as a clinical psychologist.
• Registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
• Experience of assessment and therapeutic work with children and families across the age range
• experience of working with children under 5
• experience of multi disciplinary work
• experience of consulting with other professionals

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training or experience with children and adolescents.
• Working knowledge of professional systems involved in work with children and infants.
• Experience of working with parents or infants in the perinatal period
• Experience/certification in Video Interaction Guidance model
• Experience/certification in Incredible Years Programme
• Experience of working in a parent-infant mental health setting
• Experience of neurodevelopmental assessment & intervention

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Waterside House Sale

Sale Waterside

Sale

M33 7ZF

Employer's website

https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)