FW: Fantastic opportunity to build a new Parent Infant Psychotherapy service in Northamptonshire!

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permission of the sender. From: Sally Pike <spike@...>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:15:48 +0100 WAVE Trust Office <office@...>Subject: Fantastic opportunity to build a new Parent Infant Psychotherapy service in Northamptonshire!Good afternoonPlease find below a role you or someone you know might be interested in.

Kind regardsSallyClinical Director

- Job Description Job Title: Clinical

Director Salary: £40,000 (pro rata) –

negotiable Hours: 3

days per week Accountable

to: Executive Director and the Board of Trustees Direct

Line management of the Clinical team. S/he will report to the Board of Trustees

on clinical issues. Location:

House, Watling St East, Towcester, Northamptonshire (With a view

to moving to a Children’s Centre in Northampton) Essential

qualifications and experienceThe successful candidate will need to have a professional qualification in adult/child or parent/infant psychotherapy/clinical

psychologist or equivalent together with a minimum of 5 years post

qualification experience, including substantial experience of parent-infantpsychotherapy. Job

Summary:This post offers an exceptional opportunity to develop

and manage the clinical work of the Northamptonshire Parent Infant Project,(NORPIP) to reach more families in Northamptonshire.

We are a newly registered Charity (established in September 2011). We offer up

to date and best evidenced techniques to deliver Psychological therapies,

interventions, group programmes and training.

Research and evaluation skills are also essential. We are looking for a

Clinical Director who has significant experience and credibility in this field

together with excellent organisational skills and the ability to share in

high-level advocacy with the Executive Director. This person will need to be

passionate about promoting infant mental health and will be determined to lead

NORPIP into the next phase of its development. S/he will need to collaborate and

work very closely with the Executive Director. Main

Responsibilities as Clinical Director: Manage, develop and

support the Clinical Team – including supporting the therapists in the

development of new initiatives and innovative ways of working.

Maintain relationships

with statutory partners in local authorities and provide the link with managers of Children’s’ Centres where NORPIP is working to ensure that

NORPIP is delivering to its contracts.

Work with the

Executive Director on commissioning to secure contracts with the NHS, Local Authorities and other commissioning

bodies.

Provide Case

management and (some) professional clinical supervision to the team of therapists

Work with the Clinical

Team to match the demands of new funding opportunities with the capacity

and resources within the team so that planning is coherent and integrated.

Lead the strategy to

deliver consultation and training in attachment and infant mental health.

Determine casework

priorities, manage clinical services and allocate work to clinicians. Manage referrals and

monitor the waiting list. Ensure that procedures for safeguarding children

are followed, as well as being reviewed and updated at least annually.

Manage systems for clinical audit

and lead research and evaluation projects to demonstrate the clinical

effectiveness of NORPIP’s work in order to provide a sound evidence base.

Manage the recruitment

of new team members as and when this is necessary.

Provide clinical input

into the negotiation of statutory contracts, monitor, maintain oversight

and accountability, and write reports. Provide clinical expertise in the

reporting of clinical work to statutory clients.

Work closely with

Executive Director on preparation of bids to Trusts and other potential

funders and on project monitoring reports. In conjunction with clinicians

write evaluation reports for Commissioners to be signed off by Executive

Director. Advocacy and Development

Develop and promote

the profile of NORPIP to key organizations working in the field of infant

mental health and other linked services both locally and nationally.

Inform the professional

content for the website for use by the team, other

professionals and to explain NORPIP’s approach.

Work with the

Executive Director, clinicians and trustees to ensure that NORPIP’s work

is explained effectively to external audiences, supporters, fundraising

events etc.

Support the Executive

Director in promoting NORPIP’s work at national level.

Develop and maintain

strong links with statutory agencies and relevant voluntary sector

agencies.

Develop the vision of

and implement NORPIP’s strategy and services as agreed with the Trustees Person specification·

As

Clinical Director of NORPIP you will be passionate about promoting parent and

infant mental health, and demonstrating its effectiveness. ·

You

will need to have several years demonstrable working experience as a fully

qualified parent infant psychotherapist/clinical psychologist or equivalent.·

You

will need to collaborate very closely with colleagues, both Clinicians and the

Executive Director. ·

You

will be highly organised, able to manage and lead a team of therapists, both in

NORPIP’s current service delivery in Northamptonshire but also as NORPIP develops

its work locally and nationally. ·

You

will need to be able to think strategically about how to deliver our clinical

objectives most effectively, including issues such as training, evaluation and

research. ·

You

will also need to be able to work strategically with the Executive Director on

a variety of funding opportunities as part of the management team. How to applyNORPIP is an organisation which follows rigorous

safeguarding procedures, and the successful applicant will need to have an

enhanced CRB check. Please list your job history with starting and leaving

dates for each job and reasons for leaving. Please also state relevant

qualifications with precise dates. Original certificates, picture ID and a utility bill with

your current address received within the last 3 months will also be required at

interview stage. Please send your CV, a letter of application and the aboveinformation to our Office Manager, Bird on email address: info@.... Bird Office ManagerTel: 01604 924735Email: info@...Web: www.norpip.org.ukAddress: House, 138 Watling Street East, Towcester. Northants NN12 6BTRegistered charity no.:1144189 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Mrs Sally PikePA to HoskingWAVE TrustCameron House, 61 Friends RoadCroydonSurrey, CR0 1EDtel: +44 (0) 20 8688 3773fax: +44 (0) 20 8688 6135www.wavetrust.org, office@...WAVE Trust Ltd (Worldwide Alternatives to ViolencE), a company limited by guarantee. Registered charity number 1080189 in England and Wales.

Please be aware that I work part-time and that I am not in the office on Monday or Thursday mornings.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~