Specialist Practitioner Infant Mental Health - Stockport, United Kingdom - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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Stockport, United Kingdom

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Communications Demonstrate leadership and manage the planning and delivery of training and supervision of Start Well Practitioners (Health Visitors and Early Years and Midwifery) in their work to support parental and infant mental health including consideration of antenatal need.

Lead Social/ Emotional pathway development and training with colleagues across the business group and Stockport Family service, as well as outside agencies such as Homestart.

Demonstrate advanced skills and competencies and act as a role model in this specialist area across the Start Well Service.

Develop and maintain an effective communication system with colleagues, general practitioners, and other agencies regarding infant mental health role and evidence based interventions.

Facilitate service briefings and professional meetings as required by Service managers to inform staff and other agencies of local priorities as well as emerging professional issues and priorities around infant and maternal emotional and mental health.

Motivate and influence staff and manage change effectively in mental health interventions. Lead on and support Start Well practitioners in the early identification of parental and infant mental health problems.

Act as a specialist resource and support in the area of parental and infant mental health within the business group with links to evidence-based practice to promote attachment [ e.g.

Neonatal behavioural Assessment Scale, Neonatal Behavioural Observation, Video Interactive Guidance, Watch Me Play ] Contribute to Professional Development sessions and make presentations on various topics as required to a diverse range of groups including groups of 20 + professionals.

Provide infant and parental mental health advice and consultation to other services and disciplines based on identified need without direct supervision.

This will include statutory and non-statutory agencies across the range of health services/early years providers/social services and voluntary agencies.

Support and encourage colleagues to develop skills in critical thinking, reflective practice, and knowledge about infant and parental mental health and safeguarding Issues.

Responsibility for Patient Care Accountable for the training and quality assurance of staff who provide direct care to patients, in respect of infant, maternal and paternal emotional and mental health including at pre-birth stage.

Ensuring that specialist community public health nursing staff are meeting the standards in the Healthy Child Programme and NICE Guidelines for maternal mental health delivered within Start Well.

Work in conjunction with the Service Managers to monitor the compliance of the guidelines for infant and maternal mental health interventions by the HV Service.

Always uphold the NMC Professional Code of Conduct, to ensure safety of clients and staff ensuring that NMC registration is up to date.

Act as a specialist resource for Start Well teams in relation to parental emotional and mental health both around prevention and appropriate intervention.

To directly support colleagues in assessment and treatment of parent infant mental health difficulties where appropriate.
To promote and support infant mental health. Develop both individual and group interventions which are evidence based.

To develop, support and evaluate universal and targeted delivery groups to promote greater understanding of parent-infant mental health and parental mental health, and to promote self-help and mutual support in the community.

In direct therapeutic work, provide specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions focussed on enhancing the relationship between a parent and infant.

This high level of therapeutic work requires empathy, understanding and the ability to contain difficult and highly expressed emotions in the parent and infant.

Planning and organising Lead the development of the service plan around speciality area ensuring the production of achievable and measurable objectives.

Lead any developmental work appropriate to band in negotiation with Locality and Principal Lead.

Lead supervision of Start Well staff in the field of infant and parent mental health ensuring the mechanisms are in place, to update and support practitioners Plan and organise own work schedule, staff meetings, allocate work as needed and problem solve.

Lead/facilitate groups and chair working groups as requested by Service Managers Ensure that a rolling programme of groups for supervision and training for the year is in place and organise cover if required Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources 1.

Procurement of supplies, equipment and other specific nonstock specialist equipment as required to deliver training. Procurement of external training/facilitators if required in negotiation with Training lead and contribute to the annual training plan.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation Lead the implementation of infant and maternal emotional