Pimhs Family Hubs Linkworker - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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Norwich, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Overview of the Service Infants need a sensitive, nurturing relationship to lay the foundations for lifelong health. If important relationships feel tense or strained, children struggle to feel secure, and can become overwhelmed by their emotions. All parents find parenting hard and stressful at times, even more so if there are additional difficulties. For some parents, this can lead to worry, sorrow or feeling unsatisfied about their relationship with their child.

It is during these times that parents need skills in connecting with their infant through watching, listening, and understanding them.

The 0-4 Parent Infant Mental Health Team is a therapeutic service which works with the strengths of the parent or primary caregiver to overcome difficulties and to help build a more positive relationship with their infant.

The service offers direct support for families experiencing early difficulties whose needs cannot be met by universal services alone, in the form of targeted work with parents/carers.

Our practitioners role is to support the parent in developing their relationship with their baby or young child by providing short-term therapeutic work to improve their interaction and relationship.

We are able to offer time limited direct work with children and their parents / carers, from parenting advice and psychoeducation through dyadic and parent only interventions including Circle of Security Parenting, video feedback interventions, play based interventions and psychological interventions as appropriate to the needs of the relationship.

Parent/Carer Feedback I felt truly understood and listened to her for the first time ever.

My needs were met as well as the child which I didn't expect i.e., like that we were treated together rather than separately.

The service has been amazing.

As part of the system wide parent infant strategy work, the 0-4 service is now working more closely with perinatal and maternal mental health services under the specialist service parental umbrella, as well as with the newly developed Family Hub Services.

This move hopes to nurture the workforce and scaffold the training and development needs of the staff across all parts of the system, improving access to robust specialist clinical supervision and training opportunities as well as giving us the opportunity for combined triage, regular interface meetings and co-facilitated groups.

As a Psychological Therapist, youll be working alongside a Service Manager and clinicians including a Principal Clinical Psychologist, trainee psychotherapists, and parent infant practitioners.

We are at the forefront of Parent Infant Mental Health Services transformation in Norfolk and Waveney - with the National conversation increasingly focussed on infant mental health this is a hugely exciting time to be working in these services.

With community awareness about the challenges families of infants and young children face, the 0-4 Parent Infant Mental Health team focus support on the development of healthy relationships which promote emotional health and resilience.

Youll work as part of our established team and will play a key role in ensuring the smooth delivery of our service including clinical supervision, therapeutic interventions that aim to improve the relationship between infant and main caregiver and consultation and training to other professionals as needed.

This an exciting time to join the team as we continue to grow and develop to deliver a high-quality mental health response to babies and young children.

Your experience, compassion and enthusiasm could be just what we need.

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.

The work requires flexibility, pragmatism, and creativity. The therapist may be required to provide support or interventions which match the need of the client. The treatment approach required may vary and additional training will be provided in brief attachment-based interventions.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and partner organisations to improve the emotional health and development of infants and pre-school children through evidence-based approaches.

The role will include assessment, formulation and intervention, the use of routine outcome measures and safeguarding practices, as well as providing supervision.

Our dedicated team is based on the outskirts of Norwich City Centre at Mary Chapman House, and work Monday to Friday, 9-5pm with flexible working available if required.