Lead for Perinatal Parent - London, United Kingdom - South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

We are seeking an experienced psychological professional with a passion for perinatal and infant mental health care to join our specialist community perinatal mental health services as part of the NHS Long Term Plan ambition to expand psychological therapies within perinatal teams.

The post holder will take a lead role in coordinating the timely and effective provision of highly specialist parent-infant interventions for women or birthing people and their infants under the care of the Perinatal Mental Health Team.

A key part of the role will be to develop a clear pathway and packages of care focused on enhancing parent - infant relationships in the context of significant parental mental illness.

They will offer supervision and support to psychology and psychotherapies staff where appropriate and work closely with the head of psychology and psychotherapies for perinatal services to ensure there are systems of governance in place to provide safe, accessible and effective psychological treatments focused on parent - infant relationships across the service.

The post holder will hold a small clinical case load, providing highly specialist psychological care to parents (and their infants) experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

An ability to assess and manage risk in this context is crucial. Applicants must have experience of working with women and families in the perinatal period.