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NHS HIGHLAND
PARENT INFANT THERAPIST
RAIGMORE HOSPITAL
Band 7: £40,872- £47,846
37.5 hours per week – Full Time, Permanent
Applications are invited to be part of an exciting development to be part of the new parental and infant mental health service for the HHSCP.
This is one of six posts currently being recruited to. The post-holder will deliver direct and indirect psychological interventions, providing high quality, responsive assessment, care and support, and working as part of the specialist NHS Highland community perinatal/infant mental health team. The team will have links with the perinatal mental health regional network and deliver services in line with the guidance and direction of the Scottish Government Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board.
Clinical work will be primarily with parents and their infants (including to babies/families within the Special Care Baby Unit, Raigmore Hospial), but should also include the wider family when appropriate. This will include assessment of the relationship and the delivery of effective therapeutic interventions in individual and group settings. Indirect work will include offering advice and consultation on parent-infant psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues (both within the team and beyond) and to other professionals working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
The team will have links with the perinatal mental health regional network and deliver services in line with the guidance and direction of the Scottish Government Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board.
Informal enquiries to: Dr Lindsay Chalton, Interim Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist Lindsay.Chalton@nhs.scot 01463 705597, or Sally Amor PNIMH Programme Lead sally.amor@nhs.scot 07791 192310
Please apply online via: https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk
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Closing date: 19/11/21