Parent Infant Mental Health Specialist - Cwmbran, United Kingdom - Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

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Cwmbran, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced therapeutic practitioner to join our specialist service within the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

Practitioners such as Clinical/Educational Psychologists, Systemic Family therapists, Child Psychotherapists, Art, Drama and Music therapists are all welcome to apply.

The Gwent Parent Infant Mental Health Service (G-PIMHS) is an emerging and growing service that focuses on supporting the earliest parent-infant relationship, particularly around the early stages of bonding and attachment.

We are a multi-disciplinary service that recognises the need at times for joint working and bespoke interventions.

Ideally, you will have a level of experience working in this area and be able to use initiative and imagination to help develop the service.

You will be required to have good communication skills and an appreciation of systemic dynamics when working with very complex families.

You will also have a good understanding of working with professional networks, building relationships multi-agency and be able to work autonomously at times.

The post holder will use specialist skills and knowledge to assess the needs of infants and their families
where there are emotional, developmental and mental health problems and formulate a treatment
intervention plan.

To provide, when appropriate both short and longer term therapeutic support to individual parents and
to engage with any emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties within the parents that are likely
to impair the development of secure attachment between them and their child.

To offer therapeutic interventions designed to enhance the quality of the relationship between parent and
infant.

Provide a focus on the impact of developmental trauma, neglect and emotional harm (intergenerational)
and develop evidence based therapeutic interventions.

We are a multi-disciplinary service that recognises the need at times for joint working and bespoke interventions.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued.

Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career.

The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes.

We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed.

This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020.

Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

The post holder will ensure the provision of evidence based therapeutic intervention for infants and
children up to the age of 2, and their parents, and provide expertise and specialist therapeutic advice,
guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' treatment plan. Other
professionals may seek post-holder's opinion in areas of specialty.

The post holder will need to be able to provide and receive highly complex information; they will need

to be able to communicate extremely complicated strands of information which may be conflicting. For
example, communicating about particularly complicated clinical matters to clients, their support workers
and referrers.

The post holder will need to be able to provide and receive highly contentious information where there

may be significant barriers to acceptance or understanding. For example, communicating with violent
parent about the effects of his or her behaviour on the baby.

The post holder will need to be able to communicate complex information in highly emotive atmospheres

that may be hostile and antagonistic towards the therapist which requires the use of the highest level of
interpersonal and communication skills with caregivers who present with serious mental health
concerns.