Job summary
This post is located within the Healthy Child Programme Health Visiting and School Nursing Service, supporting a broad range of mental health related service needs. The Healthy Child Programme provide a universal offer to all families, as well as a targeted offer to those with additional needs. We enjoy excellent working relationships with our partner agencies and work together to ensure families receive a seamless service. We deliver services in client's homes, children and family centres and other community settings.
The role will also work in conjunction with a new parent-infant team, which is part of the Healthy Child Programme. This service focuses on the very special relationship between parents and infants that develops in the early years of a child's life. It aims to support families to promote a loving, connected, and secure relationship between primary caregivers' and their babies, which lays the positive foundation for health and well-being that lasts into adulthood.
Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work across the Healthy Child Programme (HCP; Health Visiting and School Nursing) as well as part of a newly established pilot parent-infant relationship service. The focus of the role in both the new, small team, as well as the wider HCP service, is perinatal and infant mental health.
The post holder will undertake a range of activities (literature reviews, audits, research, training, as well as offering brief interventions to families), that support the development and growth of the small parent-infant relationship team, as well as the ambitions of the wider service.
About us
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To conduct literature reviews, research projects, audits and service development.
To monitor and evaluate the work of team, including clinical interventions, consultations, mental health forums and training.
Offers brief interventions (either 1:1 or group) for families children and young people under supervision, and to produce written report of this work.
To gain experience of psychological assessments, applying psychological, including neuropsychological, tests, self-report measures, rating scales, with children, young people, and family members and others involved in the service users care.
To work independently according to a plan agreed with qualified Psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
To gain a knowledge of local services in order to support signposting and system navigation.
To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of families.
To attend relevant professional meetings regarding families care, bringing a parent-infant relationship perspective to formulating a families presenting difficulties.
To assess and manage risk within the context of individual work and the work of the team.
To have proficient use of Microsoft Office applications to facilitate the inputting data, emailing, report writing and other tasks as necessary for the efficient running of the team and/or training needs.
Undertakes administrative tasks in relation to own work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To conduct literature reviews, research projects, audits and service development.
To monitor and evaluate the work of team, including clinical interventions, consultations, mental health forums and training.
Offers brief interventions (either 1:1 or group) for families children and young people under supervision, and to produce written report of this work.
To gain experience of psychological assessments, applying psychological, including neuropsychological, tests, self-report measures, rating scales, with children, young people, and family members and others involved in the service users care.
To work independently according to a plan agreed with qualified Psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
To gain a knowledge of local services in order to support signposting and system navigation.
To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of families.
To attend relevant professional meetings regarding families care, bringing a parent-infant relationship perspective to formulating a families presenting difficulties.
To assess and manage risk within the context of individual work and the work of the team.
To have proficient use of Microsoft Office applications to facilitate the inputting data, emailing, report writing and other tasks as necessary for the efficient running of the team and/or training needs.
Undertakes administrative tasks in relation to own work.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience working with children/young people and parent/carers
- Experience of working in a team or a group environment
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues
- Can demonstrate how they have promoted 'best practice'
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability and willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Able to work in team and independently
- Aware of the range of emotions in self and others
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience working with children/young people and parent/carers
- Experience of working in a team or a group environment
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues
- Can demonstrate how they have promoted 'best practice'
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability and willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Able to work in team and independently
- Aware of the range of emotions in self and others
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).
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).
