Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience

JOB OVERVIEW

Are you passionate about infant and pre-school child development and looking for something different? Then now is the time to come and work for NSFT Ages birth up to 4th birthday Parent Infant Mental Health service.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Family Therapist/ Systemic Psychotherapist to join Norfolk and Waveney parent and infant relationship service, to cover a period of maternity leave within the service.
The successful candidate will need to be a fully accredited Systemic and Family Psychotherapist with appropriate professional body. The applicant must have a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in working with parents and children and have and significant experience working with families with child protection/contact with social services.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and partner organisations to improve the emotional health and development of infants and pre-school children who are experiencing emotional difficulties, through dyadic or family-based interventions. The role will include providing therapy for parents and babies and children under four years of age, providing clinical supervision to trainee psychotherapists and parent infant practitioners and providing consultation and training to a variety of professionals and agencies.
The post holder will be offering an enhanced intervention function around parent infant relationship difficulties, whilst considering the Thrive Framework domains of ‘Getting More help’ and ‘Getting Risk Support’ (Wolpert et al., 2019). Due to the age of the infants referred into PAIRS, this is an exciting opportunity to consider pre-verbal infants within family therapy work.
The position will require you to be a dynamic and solution-focused team player who is passionate about high quality care. You will be outcome driven and able to work collaboratively with our organisational partners across Family Hub Services, Perinatal Services, CAMHS, Healthy Child Programme, Early Childhood and Family Service, Adult Community Mental Health Services, Health Visiting, and other agencies to deliver a unified and safe service to babies, young children and their parents or carers.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.