Parent Infant Practitioner

Parent Infant Practitioner The closing date is 19 December 2025 North Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust and North Northants Family Hubs have commissioned NHFT's Best Start in Life Service Nurturing Families Pathway to put in place a new programme of support for families to promote Parent‑Infant relationships during pregnancy and the first two years of life. This new programme will include a particular focus on supporting Fathers, Co‑Parents and Father‑figures to form strong, nurturing attachments with their infants. Based on the ethos and principles of our existing Nurturing Families Pathway programmes: Family Nurse Partnership, Family Steps and Tiny Steps, the Parent and Infant Relationship Service will be strengths‑based, working with parents and those in a parenting role to achieve their own aspirations and goals in their relationship with their baby. The programme will include 1:1 and group‑based interventions to support families to achieve the changes they aim for. You will be supported by regular and robust clinical supervision, case discussion, team learning and skills development sessions. Main duties of the job This clinical role will work directly with parents to support them in building strong, nurturing, responsive and attuned relationships with their babies. You will have a strengths‑based approach and be adept at identifying the features of nurturing communication in the parent‑infant dyad so that you can reflect these back and promote parental self‑efficacy and confidence. You will have the knowledge and skills to work with parents and infants to promote parent and infant mental health; support responsive communication; promote parent and infant attachment and confidently amplify the infant's voice and support parents to recognise and respond to infant cues. You will be flexible, approachable, empathetic and a confident communicator. You will have good knowledge of attachment theory, child development, infant communication, adult and infant mental health and experience in identifying the features of warm, responsive and attuned parenting. You will be committed to agenda matching with clients and taking a family centred approach. You will be open to new learning and reflective practice. About us NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth. Job responsibilities For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document. Person Specification Experience Community Experience Knowledge Community Nursery Nurse or Paediatric Nurse Additional related courses Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Employer name Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Address North Northants Family Hubs and communities: Wellingborough, East Northants, Kettering and Corby. Team Base Newland House #J-18808-Ljbffr