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

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
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Stockport, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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The post holder will be based in the Infant Parent Service (IPS) which is jointly located in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, CAMHS and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will have extensive links with Start Well Services, Maternity Services, Neonatal Unit, Family Hubs, Adult Mental Health, and Children's Social Care and the third sector.

The Infant Parent Service provides a clinical service to infants and parents/ carers, training of staff, consultation on case management, and supervision across the large multi-agency network of mixed professionals within the Stockport Family service.


The post holder will work as a specialist practitioner with IPS, developing and implementing a community based therapeutic service to parents to be, infants and their families with a particular focus on prevention and intervention with high risk and vulnerable families.


The training and development aspect of the role involves acting as a specialist resource and contributing to multi-agency training of relevant professionals across Stockport.

The post holder will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and Start Well Strategy.


We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

  • Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
  • NHS pension scheme membership
  • Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
  • NHS Staff discounts
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary finance for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
  • Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

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  • 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 Manage
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