Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Godalming; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Foundation Trust as a Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner. This role involves working with mothers and their families to ensure positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally. You will be part of a dedicated team, providing high-quality care and support, with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Participation in perinatal conferences

Regular internal training

Qualifications

• Must be an OT, Social Worker, or RMN.
• Experience in mental health care is essential.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for women accessing the service.
• Mentor and supervise qualified and unqualified staff.
• Manage referrals and triage assessments effectively.

Skills

Mental health nursing

Assessment skills

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Mental Nurse (RMN) or equivalent

Social Work qualification

Occupational Therapy qualification

Job description

Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

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Do you aspire to change peoples lives for the better? To work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners. Ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally. We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.

We are looking for 3 x Perinatal Practitioners (OT, Social Worker or RMN) to cover the SW team at Berkeley House in Godalming, and East team at Horizon House in Epsom. You'll be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of the women accessing the service and lead the care for a specified caseload. You'll mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.

• Be accountable and responsible for a defined caseload that reflects the priorities of the local population and carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs, under the supervision of the Clinical Lead Nurse.
• To ensure effective daily management of referrals, including appropriate triage and assessment within specified timescales across the service.
• To ensure appropriate response to emergency referrals, supporting referrals within the acute care pathway and liaising with services involved including HTT, inpatient services and MBU.
• Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment of women with mental health problems living in the community, by providing a community perinatal mental health nursing perspective and expertise.
  
  

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vimbai Matemba Job title: Perinatal Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07768926932

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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