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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Are you a compassionate, motivated and experienced psychotherapist with a passion for infant mental health?
The Lothian Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS) is a small multi-disciplinary team supporting parent-infant relationships in the first three years of life, to promote optimal infant mental health. We provide assessment, formulation and a range of evidence based group and one-to-one interventions for infants and their parents / carers. We also provide indirect support through training, consultation and reflective practice to a range of professionals and services working with infants.
We are delighted to be recruiting a parent-infant therapist (PIT) who will offer a psychodynamic perspective to our MDT, as well as offering child-parent psychotherapy to our parents and infants. The PIT will hold a caseload of infants and parents / carers, deliver group interventions such as Circle of Security Parenting, contribute to MDT formulation and reflective practice, run reflective practice sessions for partner staff and agencies, deliver relevant training, offer supervision to staff within the team, and offer regular consultation slots.
We require applicants to hold a relevant mental health qualification, plus completion of a UKCP/BPC/BACP accredited post-graduate training which would align to level 12 on the SCQF (i.e. equivalent to doctoral level), conferring qualification as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst, or as a Group Analyst. We also require significant post-qualification experience of works as a psychodynamic parent-infant or child psychotherapist.
We warmly welcome informal enquiries and questions, which can be made to Dr Kirsten Coull, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, kirsten.coull@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.