Specialist Perinatal Practitioner

• Support health visiting teams to access appropriate care pathwayso Support use of the Ready to Relate intervention implementation with healthvisiting teamso To train the 0-5 workforce in early recognition and basic interventionsrelated to suboptimal perinatal mental healtho Support the training of health visiting teams to embrace new ways ofworking using digital platformso To develop and provide a consultation model to support health visitingteams in their perinatal mental health work.
• Identify what prevalence data is required to be collatedo Support the health visiting teams to collect prevalence data and evidenceimpacto To develop the interface between health visiting services, IAPT andSMABS.
• To engage with the Perinatal mental health steering group to identifyopportunities for development across the district.
• Contribute to teaching and training on issues related to perinatal mentalhealth, parent-infant relationship, within 0-19 services.
• Development work; stakeholder engagement; integration to amultidisciplinary team; leadership of quality improvement and best practice.

Desirable

• Masters/ Post graduate qualification in perinatal mental health
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society. Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Doctorate Level 6-year ACP accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy which includes a minimum of 4 years' full-time clinical training and one's own intensive analysis. Full member of Association of Child Psychotherapists

Essential

• Previous experience of working with perinatal difficulties and parent infant work
• Experience of working in perinatal mental health/mental health services
• Experience of working collaboratively with other professionals within the health economy and from other organisations.