Community Perinatal Mental Health Nurse

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK seeks enthusiastic community psychiatric nurses for the Perinatal Community Teams in Lewisham. Candidates should have experience in community mental health services, especially with women facing moderate to severe mental illnesses during the perinatal period. The role includes support and training within a network and supervising junior staff. Applicants must demonstrate excellent clinical knowledge and a commitment to implementing best practices and NICE guidelines.

Qualifications

• Experience working with women suffering from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.
• Familiarity with perinatal community standards, governance, and performance structures.
• Ability to supervise junior staff and student nurses.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support in community perinatal teams.
• Participate in workforce training within SLaM and London-wide.
• Implement new ways of working using best practices and NICE guidelines.

Skills

Excellent clinical knowledge

Experience in community mental health services

Partnership work with agencies

Job description

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident community psychiatric nurses to join our Community Perinatal Teams across Lewisham due to further expansion of the Perinatal Community services. You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or CAMHS. You will have experience of working with women who suffer from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.

You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.

You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work.

Working closely with your colleagues in PMHT’s, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within SLaM and London wide. In addition, you will be partof the Pan London Community Perinatal Nurses network. This is a great opportunity to supervise juniorstaff, student nurses as well asimplementing new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.