Specialist Maternal Mental Health Midwife - Warrington, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Warrington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Cheshire & Merseyside Maternal Mental Health Service for a specialist maternal mental health midwife to join the service.

We are looking for midwives with relevant experience and a passion for supporting women and birthing people who have experienced trauma and/or loss in their reproductive journey.

Silver Birch Hubs is a joint collaboration bringing together midwifery and psychology to provide evidence based interventions as part of joint clinical pathways.

The role involves working in a multidisciplinary team alongside clinical psychologists, lead specialist midwife, psychological therapists, and peer support workers with lived experience of trauma and loss, to provide specialist midwifery knowledge and expertise in the team.

You will be managing your own caseload and providing psychology informed midwifery interventions to women and birthing people in the service, as well as supporting training and upskilling of the workforces in the wider maternity, neonatal and local authority systems.

There will be daily contact with services users who have experienced losses (such as stillbirth, miscarriage, neonatal death, and loss through separation of mum and baby in the maternity setting by the family justice system), birth trauma, and extreme fear of child birth(Tokophobia).

The post holder will be required to work and travel across the Cheshire and Merseyside footprint, to provide both face to face and virtual appointments to service users and attend meetings.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Support, assist and advise women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe impact on their mental health as a result of trauma or loss in their reproductive journey.

This in addition

to the routine care provided by midwives, obstetricians, gynaecologists, neonatal teams, health visitors, for example working with women and the maternity system professionals to develop individual care plans and making referrals to additional specialist support where required.

Act as an advocate for women and birthing people to ensure they get the specialist mental health care they need.

Undertake some aspects of psychologically informed interventions such as mindfulness, cognitive behavioural work, and exposure work under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.

Formulate individualised, psychology informed birth plans in collaboration with women, birthing people, and their families.

Support preparation of women and birthing people who wish to access debriefs, birth reflection sessions, investigation outcomes and feedback meetings in cases of poor outcomes, including PMRT feedback and post-mortem results.

Liaise with mental health services, and other services and partner agencies to ensure that women
with moderate to severe mental illness are receiving active and effective care.

Provide care in a variety of settings, such as home, children's centres or other community settings working independently or in collaboration with the MMHS and other care providers.

Liaise with other services to improve service provision for women and birthing people suffering
from trauma related symptoms and PTSD, and their families, and promote integration of services.

Support and guide the maternity, neonatal and gynaecology systems with providing trauma informed care for women who have experienced a trauma or loss.

Promote care pathways for women with mental illness relating to trauma, tokophobia, perinatal loss, including separation of mum and baby by the family courts.

Act as a resource for all staff involved in maternity care (including obstetricians, midwives, student midwives and maternity support workers).

Provide evidence-based advice, support, and

information with regards to the appropriate management and referral of women and birthing people with mental health problems and their families.

Participate in developing and coord