- Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and review
- Training other staff
- Joint work with other staff
- Advice and consultation to other staff
- Facilitating perinatal Perinatal Pre-birth meetings
- Liaison work with maternity services
- Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
- Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality
- supervising junior staff
- •Evidence of professional qualification in nursing
- •Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- •Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
- •Educated to degree level or equivalent
- •ENB 998 or equivalent
- •Clinical supervision training
- •Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic/ psychological interventions
- •Minimum 4 years post qualification experience
- •Minimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
- •Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- •Experience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- •Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
- •Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- •Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- •Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
- •Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- •Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
- •Experience of supervising mental health professionals and/or practice teaching
- •Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
•Ability to provide supervision
•Ability to implement evidence-based practice - •Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
•Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
•Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately - •Ability to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
•Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
•Ability to use supervision effectively - •Ability to work in stressful situations and demonstrate emotional resilience.
•Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written - •Ability to work effectively from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation exclusion and stigma.
- •IT literate
•Ability to work autonomously and make decisions
•Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and 'virtual' team - •Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
•Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
•Up to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services - •Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services
•Knowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
•Understanding of clinical governance and audit issues
•Understanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to child protection and children in need -
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Description
Job overview
Tower Hamlets Perinatal Mental Health Team is a specialist mental health team that supports women and birthing people in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health difficulties using a multi-disciplinary approach. The team is recruiting for a 1.0 WTE band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in this dynamic Multi Disciplinary Team. The successful post holder will be passionate about Perinatal Mental Health and keen to leanr more within this Specialty working inclusively to address health inequalities in our diverse borough. The post holder will supervise junior staff , hold their own caseload and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team and wider networks.
If you are interested in applying for this role, please contact Parveen Bhatia - Operational Lead at
Interviews for this post will be held on the 24th May 2023
Main duties of the job
To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under 2 years old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused.This will be done through:
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver, or support the delivery of, highly specialist evidence based assessment, care planning, treatment and review for service users in the perinatal period.
To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to Trust inpatient and community services on best practice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to one year old.
Jointly with care co-ordinators, to work intensively with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to one year old.
To work with colleagues to establish a clear process and criteria for receiving referrals to undertake direct work or information for advice and liaison work.
To assist in setting up structures that allows the dissemination of knowledge and skills regarding working with perinatal service users in inpatient and community services.
To liaise and work with the Trust Mother and Baby Unit based at City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health.
To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of dangerous, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
To be mindful of the needs of women, children, young people, families and individuals from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
To ensure that all Trust perinatal service users have a perinatal plan, which may require pre-birth and post-birth meetings.
To participate in weekly hospital multi-disciplinary ante-natal psychosocial meetings and any other multi-disciplinary meetings as appropriate.
To attend Safeguarding Children Pre-Birth and Review Conferences as appropriate and provide written and verbal reports.
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