National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships

DHSC is seeking to secure the services of a supplier to create and run a National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships. The National Centre will be expected to provide specialist parent-infant relationship clinical supervision to 75 local authorities receiving DHSC funding to deliver Best Start in Life Healthy Babies services. The successful supplier will be expected to manage the grant funding in its entirety, from designing and establishing the service, delivering clinical supervision sessions, building a community amongst supervisees and supervisors that provides learning opportunities around the role of supervision in clinical practice and evaluating the impact of the intervention through a lens of continuous improvement. Good parent-infant relationship support is underpinned by a knowledgeable, skilled and confident workforce. This funding will enable the workforce to have the capacity and capability to support families with parent-infant relationship difficulties. Clinical supervision is an essential part of working therapeutically, and one of the main challenges to rapidly expanding parent-infant relationships support is access to clinical supervisors with expertise in parent-infant relationships. The supplier will be required to deliver or facilitate the delivery of clinical supervision sessions covering a wide range of parent-infant relationship interventions, including VIG, meeting the supervision needs of a wide range of practitioners, and delivered flexibly through online and group sessions.