Job summary
Join our dedicated Perinatal Mental Health Team as a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist, supporting women and families during pregnancy and up to two years after birth. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to deliver specialist assessments, care planning and interventions for individuals with complex mental health needs, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and in partnership with maternity services and safeguarding partners. You'll play a key role in improving outcomes for mothers and babies through compassionate, evidence-based practice, service development, and staff training. If you are an experienced mental health nurse with a passion for perinatal care and making a real difference in your community, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To deliver 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 inpatient and community services on best practice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to two years old.
To work intensively with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to two years old. To liaise and work with the Trust Mother and Baby Unit.To work as a member of the MDT 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 dangerousness, 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 service users have a perinatal plan, which may require pre-birth and post-birth meetings.
To attend Safeguarding Children meetings as appropriate and provide written and verbal reports.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See attached the Job description and Person specification for further details on the role for the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered mental health nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Evidence of Perinatal Mental health training and Safeguarding children practice
Desirable
- Evidence of Practice Assessor training or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 4 years post qualification experience and 2 years 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 undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Ability to provide supervision
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tower Hamlets Perinatal Mental Health Team, Burdett House, Mile End Hospital
Bancroft Road
London
E1 4DG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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