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Clinical Psychologist Infant Mental Health | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2024 |
| Location: | Sale, M33 7ZF |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6320703/349-MCH-6320703 |
Summary
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological service to children under 5 with a particular focus on parents and infants under 2, as part of the Trafford Infant Parent Service (TIPS). Methods of service delivery within the community include providing parent and infant groups, providing clinic sessions including psychological assessment and therapy and offering consultation on children’s relationship based psychological care to others working with infants across the sector as part of the integrated Parent Infant Mental Health pathway (PIMH). The post holder will be required to work autonomously within professional guidelines and departmental policies and practices, provide training to tier 1 professionals and to support others working with infants across the PIMH network. The post involves using research skills in service evaluation and audit.
Delivery of service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multi-agency context. To assist in developing existing Infant Parent Services as required. To develop skills in professional post graduate teaching and training, and deliver teaching and training to professional and non-professional groups. To use evidence-based literature and research to support effective practice. To act in accordance with the policies of the Trust
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Clinical
1. Delivery of service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multi-agency context.
2. To provide specialist assessments of the parent and infant relationship of parents and infants referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect observation and interviews with family members and/or carers, and infants.
3. To formulate and implement plans for therapeutic intervention or management based on an appropriate conceptual framework, working in home, social services, community, hospital and educational settings where appropriate.
4. To provide psychological training, advice and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and to clinical psychology service provision with a particular focus on the perinatal period.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
6. To contribute a specialist psychological perspective to case planning and multi-agency case conferences and reviews and call multi-professional meetings when appropriate.
7. To communicate highly complex condition-related or contentious or sensitive information where there may be significant barriers to acceptance and to manage ensuing difficult interpersonal situations in the interests of the patient’s welfare.
Management and service development
1. To assist in developing existing Infant Parent Services as required.
2. To assist in determining priorities for the psychology sector of the TIPS and CAMHS service.
3. To help plan, contribute and participate in, any team building process that may be seen as necessary to enhance the working efficiency of TIPS.
4. To join senior clinicians to manage the workloads of assistant psychologists working within the department.
5. To be involved in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists.
6. To attend departmental and specialist team meetings.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and other professional colleagues, where appropriate.
2. To take responsibility for continuing professional development and continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of TIPS, child and adolescent clinical psychology and CAMHS service-related areas.
3. To develop skills in professional post graduate teaching and training, and deliver teaching and training to professional and non-professional groups on subjects related to the mental health needs of infants, children and their families across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate.
4. To provide case based supervision to the work of non-psychologists in delivery of psychological interventions as appropriate.
5. To provide consultation/clinical supervision as appropriate to others in TIPS, including assistant psychologists.
6. To contribute to the supervising of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists and when appropriately experienced to take full responsibility for organising a trainee placement and providing full supervision.
7. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with parents and infants across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate with a particular focus on the perinatal period and parent infant relationships..
8. To take part in annual appraisal.
Clinical Governance and Research
1. To utilise evidence-based literature and research to support effective practice.
2. To undertake project management including audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
3. To participate in evaluation of all clinical activity within the post and provide such information as required by the Head of Psychology for the purpose of service monitoring and evaluation.
4. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice as appropriate.
5. To publish research outcomes in professional recognised journals and share information on outcomes at professional conferences where appropriate.
6. To represent a professional view point in relation to nationally accepted good practice and to ensure a high level of ethical standards and professional conduct.
This advert closes on Monday 5 Aug 2024
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