Mental Health Midwife Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

We are looking to recruit a band 6 midwife who is motivated with a real passion for perinatal mental health and focused on ensuring the delivery of high-quality midwifery care. We aim to provide patient-centred, clinically driven and flexible care, providing support to our patients. The successful candidate will be case loading a cohort of women with moderate mental health needs, to empower and allow them to have a journey that will be compassionate and improve their and their family's pregnancy experience.

This exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a midwife within our well-established specialist team, supporting patients, colleagues, and students. You will be autonomous and work within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, reporting to the senior specialist mental health midwife. You will regularly meet and liaise with community mental health teams, local IAPT and health visitor for mental health and other professional agencies.

The role is a full-time position and there are flexible working opportunities. It is mainly based in the community setting covering the South of the county, including Wycombe, Amersham, and the Chalfont's. However, you will also provide support to your patients in the hospital setting when required.

Responsibilities:

1. As a member of our team the midwife is responsible for planning and implementing care for patients throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period within their role as an autonomous practitioner.
2. Work directly alongside the perinatal mental health specialist midwife in a support role.
3. Provides a full range of midwifery care, health education and social care advice to women in all care settings.
4. Takes on the role of caseloading targeted mothers who have mental health needs.
5. Work within a continuity of care model for women with perinatal mental health needs/vulnerable families.
6. Provides clinical and professional expertise to the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team.
7. Participates in the development of midwifery services to meet the needs of mothers with mild, moderate and severe mental health problems.
8. Assess the full range of care needs and assist in developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period for women and their babies.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

1. As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
2. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
3. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment; all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us quoting the vacancy reference number.

This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Apr 2025.