Child Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist PIMHS

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join Wigan Building Attachment and Bonds Support, a Parent-Infant Mental Health Service located within Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust. Our service works with infants and their parents/carers from pregnancy up to 3 years of age. We are a small supportive multi-disciplinary team who are committed to providing high quality care to infants and their families in Wigan.

We are seeking to recruit a Child Psychotherapist or Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about early intervention and parent/carer-infant relationships. The role will involve delivery and development of a high-quality parent infant mental health service including direct work with families and working with other professionals offering consultation, supervision, and training. With supervision and additional training, the successful candidate will manage their own caseload providing assessment, formulation and parent-infant interventions. The successful candidate will be passionate about working in this field and have knowledge and experience of working with infants and their parents/carers. An understanding of working within CAMHS, Adult Mental Health Services and of assessing risk within the perinatal period is required.

We invite applications from those wishing to be considered for a preceptorship.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies identified through supervision or complex case discussion.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation  to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, management and treatment of service users.
• To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
• Following consultation be responsible for developing care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation. Ensuring active involvement of parents and infants
• To provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of referred families and identify collaboratively the most appropriate treatment for them
• Participate in the development / delivery of a programme of training for other professional groups working in parent infant mental health service
• Lead on programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings
• Lead on areas of service development
• Deputise for the Team manager / Clinical Lead in their absence
• To provide Clinical Supervision both internally and externally
• To contribute to the training experience of trainee Child Psychotherapists / Clinical Psychologists as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached detailed job description and person specification:

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts