Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist/ Clinical Psychologist
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The post holder will be based in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Parent Infant Mental Health Service located in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, CAMH Service. The post holder will lead and contribute to the ongoing development of the Best Start Family Hub Healthy Babies Programme. This initiative builds on developments undertaken over the past two years in partnership with the Local Authority through the Best Start for Life programme.
The post holder will contribute to the ongoing development and delivery of a universal – mild – moderate perinatal and parent-infant mental health (PIMH) service offer and care pathway, working in partnership with services across Rochdale. The service provides a clinical service, strategic leadership, training and workforce development in the perinatal period up until the child’s 2nd birthday across the multi-agency network in the borough. The service has good working relationships with Health Visiting, Maternity Services, Family Hubs, Adult Mental Health Services, Voluntary sector and Children’s Social Care, etc.
The post holder will work as a highly specialist practitioner implementing and developing a community-based therapeutic service to expectant parents, infants, and their families with a particular focus on early intervention and preventative work with high-risk and vulnerable families (e.g., socially excluded families). S/he will provide assessment and treatment of the parent-infant relationship, working with parents/carers and infants grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy/Clinical Psychology.
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The training and strategic development aspect of the role involves acting as a specialist resource, and contributing to multi-agency training of relevant professionals across the borough. The post holder will be expected to offer consultation and clinical supervision to professional colleagues.
We are proud to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities, and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
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All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sarah Fielding
- Job title: Clinical Lead
- Email address: sarah.fielding1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0161 716 2873
Working days: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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