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Location

Sale, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

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Job description

This post involves working in early intervention in a specialist service, assisting in the delivery and development of the Trafford Infant Parent Service (TIPS) team in their direct work with infants and children up to 5thbirthday and their families.

The post holder will assist with a wide range of duties at all stages of service delivery - assessment, intervention, and evaluation. Duties may include the development of resources, including online materials, audit and service development and support to both group delivery and online workshops.

The post holder will also be expected to assist clinicians in the preparation, delivery and evaluation of a variety of clinical, teaching and research tasks. The post holder will act under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist and will receive regular supervision. Trafford Infant Parent Service currently sits within Trafford CAMHS.

Note: Vacancy might be closed early if sufficient numbers are reached

The post holder will be required, under supervision, to assist with

1. Service Improvement - data collection, data input, report writing, audit and research; maintain records in accordance with standards

2. Clinical Intervention - assist qualified Clinical Psychologists and senior members of the clinical team, in implementing psychological interventions. This will include using a variety of assessment procedures, and liaison with a range of professionals.

3. Teaching and Research - contributing to training initiatives under supervision across the multi agency network supporting infants and parents

The post holder will be provided with a job plan to support them in organizing tasks and activities and make appropriate judgments regarding urgency. Guidance will be provided via weekly supervision with a member of the clinical team.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Under supervision, the post holder will be expected to assist qualified Clinical Psychologists and senior members of the clinical team, in implementing psychological interventions. This will include using a variety of assessment procedures to collect relevant data (rating scales, self-report measures etc), analysis of data and undertaking clinical interventions with qualified clinicians including group intervention and specific individual interventions.

In undertaking these duties, the post holder will be expected to communicate sensitive information with children and families both verbally and in writing.

The post holder will be expected to liaise with other professionals such as school teachers and social workers in arranging meetings, gathering information and undertaking observations within early years settings.

The post holder will be expected to assist and support the TIPS group delivery programme. This will include recruiting parents, offering catch up sessions and supporting clinicians to deliver groups.

The post holder will be expected to attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings

The post holder will be expected to assist qualified Clinical Psychologists and other senior clinicians in undertaking teaching and training. This will include the production of relevant literature and contributing to training initiatives under supervision across the early years sector.

The post holder will also assist clinical psychologists and other senior clinicians in undertaking clinical research. This will include undertaking literature searches relevant to particular projects and the preparation and presentation of summaries and reports.

Communicate with others, both professional and client groups, in both oral and written form, including the writing of complex clinical reports, training and presentations.

Maintain accurate contemporaneous records in accordance with relevant standards

Will have a thorough understanding of consent to treatment issues and will effectively demonstrate analysis which leads to clinical judgment in client notes

The post holder will be expected to attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings

The post holder will be provided with a job plan to support them to organize their day to day work tasks and activities and make appropriate judgements regarding urgency. Guidance will be provided via weekly supervision with a member of the clinical team.

The post holder will be expected to input data onto the trust electronic patient record system.

To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects

To undertake data collection, data analysis and the production of reports and summaries to aid service development.

This advert closes on Monday 18 Mar 2024

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