Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

South West London And St George'S Mental Health Nhs Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Specialist Perinatal Nurse for its Perinatal Mental Health Service in Wandsworth. The role focuses on high-quality, trauma-informed and family-centered care for women in the perinatal period.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, managing a defined caseload, delivering evidence-based assessments, and supporting the development of positive mother-infant relationships through collaborative pathways with

Qualifications

• NMC registered.
• Degree level education or equivalent.
• Teaching qualification to educate professionals on perinatal risk issues.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of women in the perinatal period.
• Provide specialist assessment, care planning, and review.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions within a MDT setting.
• Support safeguarding and inter-agency collaboration.
• Provide clinical supervision, mentoring and training to learners.

Skills

Nurse expertise

Perinatal care

Assessment & care planning

Communication

Education

Degree level education

Teaching qualification

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the South West London and St George's Perinatal Mental Health Service.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join our Wandsworth sub-team.

The successful candidate will ideally have essential perinatal mental health experience and be committed to delivering compassionate, trauma-informed, family-centered care.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Perinatal Nurse within the Perinatal Mental Health Service, you will provide a high standard of evidence-based assessment, formulation, and intervention for women experiencing complex and enduring mental health difficulties during the perinatal period.

As a core member of our multidisciplinary team, you will hold a defined caseload, carry out timely assessments, deliver specialist interventions, and work collaboratively with the MDT and other services across the care pathway including maternity, HTT, inpatient units and the MBU. Your interventions will promote recovery, wellbeing, and the development of positive mother-infant relationships.

The post holder will manage a defined caseload, undertake comprehensive risk assessments, and contribute to diagnostic and multidisciplinary care formulations. You will also participate in duty and triage functions, supporting the team to meet clinical and performance targets while ensuring safe and effective care.

The role includes providing clinical supervision, mentoring and training to students.

Collaboration with partner agencies is central to this role, and experience of inter-agency working and child protection procedures is desirable.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK

Job responsibilities

• To have a working knowledge of the Perinatal pathway
• To manage individual patient pathways to ensure high quality services and care planning outcomes are achieved
• To deliver, or support the delivery of, highly specialist evidence-based assessment, care planning, treatment and review for women in the perinatal period.
• To provide specialist consultation, advice and support on best practice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to one year old.
• To provide case management to a caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to one year old.
• To take action in respect of Safeguarding Policies and Procedures as required
• Following robust assessment to recommend safe and effective care pathways, ensuring all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated
• To support in the identification and reporting of deficits within current service provision.
• Provide specialist nursing assessment, advice and consultation to colleagues in all the disciplines in the team.
• To provide high quality written reports of any assessments undertaken, with clear plans for ongoing management.

Person Specification

Training & Qualification

Essential

• NMC registered
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Hold a teaching qualification to educate midwives GP's and fellow mental health practitioners' on perinatal risk issues.

Desirable

• Management Qualification
• Additional Specialist training, e.g. Diploma in Perinatal Mental Health
• Supervision Training

Experience

Essential

• Considerable experience in adult mental health and community settings
• Experience of working as an autonomous clinical practitioner and managing a complex case load.
• Audit and research skills and ability to interpret and apply to practice
• Knowledge of family/group/cognitive and behaviour therapies

Desirable

• Experience in the assessment and treatment of Perinatal mental health
• Experience in children's nursing

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Proven ability working with adult women with mental health problems.
• The ability to assess, plan and implement care programmes for adults presenting with complex difficulties/disorders
• Management of case load by prioritising need and urgency
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Desirable

• Clinical skills working with Perinatal women
• The ability to apply in practice interventions based in different theoretical frameworks e.g. psychodynamic (individual and/or group) family/systems, behavioural and cognitive.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).