Practitioner Psychologist Enfield

Practitioner Psychologist – Enfield

Key Responsibilities

• Providing highly specialised assessment and formulation to parents/primary caregivers and their infants.
• Delivering individualised evidence-based care packages, including group and individual therapeutic interventions.
• Contributing to the wider Under 5s team.
• Engaging in multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working, supporting relational and safeguarding risk planning and care planning for families.
• Promoting infant mental health knowledge and skills across the early years system through consultation, advice, and training.
• Travelling between family centres and the CAMHS base in Enfield and to other colleagues within the Tri-Borough area (Haringey and Barnet).
• Working collaboratively with other CAMHS colleagues, families, and their infants and young children to ensure active involvement in goal setting and care planning.
• Offering consultation to other professionals and contributing to internal/external colleague teaching and training.
• Providing highly specialised assessment and formulation to parents and their infants/children under 5.
• Evaluating treatment options considering theoretical, therapeutic models, and historical/developmental factors.
• Competent in using relevant screening and assessment tools.
• Formulating/offering/delivering/reviewing psycho-social interventions (including 1:1 therapy and group programs).
• Delivering individualised evidence-based care packages.
• Assisting in the development of high-quality service underpinned by evidence-based practice, care pathways, NICE and DH guidance.
• Responsible for the initial assessment process, observation, ongoing comprehensive and specialist assessment, and providing accurate and timely feedback.
• Providing parent-infant supervision as required.
• Assessing service users response to activities.
• Assessing risk to infant and parent when working with relational difficulties.
• Identifying safeguarding risk and managing risk of parent/infant relationships.
• Communicating complex/sensitive information concerning assessment, formulation, and treatment plans, monitoring, and evaluating progress.
• Contributing directly/indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care.
• Responsible for recording patient activity information on Trust reporting systems.

Skills and Expertise

• Commitment to perinatal and parent-infant/infant mental health.
• Relevant experience of working therapeutically with parents and babies.
• Desirable: Training in parent-infant therapeutic work (e.g., parent-infant psychotherapy, video feedback).
• Competent in use of relevant screening and assessment tools.