Job summary
Therapeutic Social Worker / Parent-Infant Therapist
Little Minds Matter: Bradford Infant Mental Health Service
Band 7, full-time, fixed term until March 2024.
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the development and delivery of a specialist team supporting families experiencing difficulties with the parent-infant relationship.
The Little Minds Matter: Bradford Infant Mental Health Service is a Better Start Bradford Project. Better Start Bradford is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. We also have additional funding through the Reducing Inequalities in Communities programme to support families across Bradford City. We are delivered by Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Family Action. The current funding arrangements are in place until March 2024 and other sources are being explored to enable the service to continue.
Main duties of the job
This post would suit a social worker with experience working therapeutically with families. We are also interested in hearing from clinicians from other backgrounds with experience offering therapy to families, including but not limited to psychologists, family therapists and psychotherapists.
The post holder with have experience assessing and offering interventions around relationship difficulties, managing risk and working in a community setting. You will have excellent interpersonal skills for working both with families and professionals and be a team player with good organisational skills who is able to manage a varied workload of clinical work, consultation and training.
This is a unique opportunity for you to join a highly committed team to:
- Work with families during pregnancy and up to a child's second birthday, supporting parent-infant relationships
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across maternity, family, mental health and voluntary services
- Develop skills in consultation, training and leadership
- Improve professional and public recognition of Infant Mental Health
- Educate and train other professionals who work with infants and their families on effective strategies for promoting healthy social and emotional wellbeing in very young children
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 - 7
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Social Worker / Psychologist / Family Therapist / Psychotherapist
Desirable
- Leadership training and development.
- Further post-graduate training and evidence of continued professional development.
- Relevant specialist clinical courses / training.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working with parents / babies / families.
- Experience and understanding of working within safeguarding procedures, guidelines and processes.
- Experience of working to address health inequalities.
- Experience of working collaboratively with other professionals within the health economy and from other organisations.
Desirable
- Experience of working with parent-infant relationships
Knowledge
Essential
- Research awareness in the field of infant mental health and child development
- Understanding of the determinants of health and health inequalities.
Desirable
- Interventions to support parent-infant relationships.
Skills
Essential
- Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with clients and families and indirectly via supervision, consultation or case reviews with other staff.
- Ability to work in an integrated multi-agency way with partner organisations as stated in the 2004 Children Act and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010.
- Risk assessment and risk management.
- Able to make autonomous decisions using judgement and to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Attitude / approach
Essential
- Passion for infant mental health and working preventatively to promote long term health and mental health outcomes.
- Supports Trust mission values and operational priorities.
- Willing to develop skills and aptitudes through professional development and appraisal.
General
Essential
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary).
- Ability to work in a range of settings, including: service user's own home, clinic settings, and inpatient environments.
- Full Driving Licence and is a car user.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Social Worker / Psychologist / Family Therapist / Psychotherapist
Desirable
- Leadership training and development.
- Further post-graduate training and evidence of continued professional development.
- Relevant specialist clinical courses / training.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working with parents / babies / families.
- Experience and understanding of working within safeguarding procedures, guidelines and processes.
- Experience of working to address health inequalities.
- Experience of working collaboratively with other professionals within the health economy and from other organisations.
Desirable
- Experience of working with parent-infant relationships
Knowledge
Essential
- Research awareness in the field of infant mental health and child development
- Understanding of the determinants of health and health inequalities.
Desirable
- Interventions to support parent-infant relationships.
Skills
Essential
- Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with clients and families and indirectly via supervision, consultation or case reviews with other staff.
- Ability to work in an integrated multi-agency way with partner organisations as stated in the 2004 Children Act and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010.
- Risk assessment and risk management.
- Able to make autonomous decisions using judgement and to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Attitude / approach
Essential
- Passion for infant mental health and working preventatively to promote long term health and mental health outcomes.
- Supports Trust mission values and operational priorities.
- Willing to develop skills and aptitudes through professional development and appraisal.
General
Essential
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary).
- Ability to work in a range of settings, including: service user's own home, clinic settings, and inpatient environments.
- Full Driving Licence and is a car user.
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).
