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    Specialist Safeguarding Nurse, Safeguarding Children - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

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    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.

    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.

    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.
    Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and review
    Training other staff
    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

    Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.

    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.

    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 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 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.
    Education/ Qualification/ Training
    oEvidence of professional qualification in nursing
    oEvidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register
    oEvidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice

    oClinical supervision training
    oQualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic/ psychological interventions

    oMinimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
    oExperience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
    oExperience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
    oExperience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
    oExperience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
    oExperience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters

    oExperience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
    oExperience of contributing to policies and procedures
    oExperience of supervising mental health professionals and/or practice teaching

    oAbility to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working oAbility to provide supervision oAbility to implement evidence-based practice
    oAbility to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively oAbility to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change oAbility to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
    oAbility to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions oAbility to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence oAbility to use supervision effectively
    oAbility to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services oExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
    oIT literate oAbility to work autonomously and make decisions oAbility to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and 'virtual' team
    oUp to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health oKnowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period oUp to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
    oKnowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services oKnowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service oUnderstanding of clinical governance and audit issues oUnderstanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to child protection and children in need

    East London NHS Foundation Trust
    Mile End Hospital


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