Maternal Mental Health Service Practitioner - Truro, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Maternal Mental Health Service Practitioner:
Band 6:
Main area
- Maternal Mental Health Service Practitioner
Grade
- Band 6
Contract
- Permanent
Hours
- Part time hours per week
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Site
- Truro Health Park
Town
- Truro
Salary
- £33,706 - £40,588 Pro Rata
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Salary period
- Yearly
Closing
- 06/02/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
_ Strategic Themes_
_ Great Care_:
- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._
_ Great Organisation__ _**:
- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._
_ Great People _:
- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._
_ Great Partner_:
- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people's quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._
Job overview:
This an exciting time to join the team as we begin to launch the service.
We aim to work closely with service user representatives and 'experts by experience' to continue to develop a service that closely maps onto local needs.
With compassion-focused, trauma informed practice at the heart of the service, we are excited to have the opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of families in Cornwall.
We are looking for a compassionate, experienced mental health practitioner who aspires to work with women/birthing people who are experiencing significant mental distress connected to reproductive trauma, loss or separation.
The post holder will have a core qualification (eg RMN, OT, SW, art therapy, counselling/psychotherapy) along with previous experience of working within mental health services and will show a willingness to undertake further specialist evidence-based training relating to perinatal/reproductive trauma and/or loss (e.g.
Main duties of the job:
Our Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) aims to provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions for individuals experiencing high levels of distress and/or complex mental health difficulties that have arisen in the maternity, neonatal or reproductive context.
Such difficulties may include Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following birth, pregnancy/baby loss or separation and severe perinatal anxiety/fear of childbirth (tokophobia).
Special consideration will be given to those vulnerable to poor health outcomes and who are disadvantaged due to social inequalities.
Psychological approaches will be offered at the individual and group level through to teams, systems and community groups.The service aims to further develop and refine pathways in the following areas of local need, where these needs are not met in pre-existing services:
Reproductive / perinatal loss (e.g. including loss of a baby through miscarriage, termination for fetal abnormality, still birth, and neo-natal death)
Reproductive / perinatal trauma
Severe Perinatal Anxiety / Fear / Tokophobia (fear of pregnancy/ childbirth)
Parent-infant separation at birth (due to safeguarding concerns)
Working for our organisation:
We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-base
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