Perinatal Mental Health Midwife - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An opportunity has arisen for a 12 month fixed term period to join a well established team.

The post holder will work directly alongside the perinatal mental health specialist midwife in a support role.

The post holder will be available in the clinical area to support with perinatal mental health concerns, whilst caring for women and liaising with the multidisciplinary team to encourage seamless care and positive outcomes for women and their families.

As a midwife working with women and families with mild to moderate, and moderate to severe, mental health illness this role is to support Perinatal Health Midwives.
Provide high quality, evidencebased care and advice to women and families
Work in partnership with other health care professionals and liaise with other agencies involved in the provisions of maternity services and seek advice from the Mental Health Specialist midwife as required.
Where children's safeguarding is involved ensure that the interest and wellbeing of babies is protected, whilst continuing to provide womencentred, compassionate care and act as anadvocate for mothers.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

In conjunction with the Mental Health Lead Midwife work closely with Perinatal Mental Health Teams in care planning and assessment of women and families where there are mental health concerns.
Work closely with community and charitable agencies and ensure that women and families are linked into additional support at the earliest opportunity.
Engage in other public health initiatives and projects especially in relation to improving outcomes for women and families with mental health concerns.
Contribute to prebirth planning, Multidisciplinary Team meetings and case

conferences as required, ensuring effective sharing of information.

Attend the monthly internal Psychosocial meetings to support the mental health leads.
Ensure that robust prebirth/discharge planning and plan is in place with the supportof the safeguarding and mental health leads.
Attend Postnatal Discharge planning meetings on the postnatal ward for any cases with social care involvement.
Support staff on the inpatient wards with mental health cases.
Ensure robust information sharing and care planning with primary care teams.
Liaise appropriately with services to ensure safe and effective care is provided to women.
Act as a care navigator to ensure timely access to appropriate pathways and robust information sharing and handover has been completed.

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.