Perinatal Community Mental Health Team Nurse

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Brae; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Ayrshire & Arran is seeking a Perinatal Community Mental Health Team Nurse for a fixed-term role. This exciting position will involve providing care and support to women experiencing mental health challenges during pregnancy and the first postnatal year, aiming to enhance mother-infant relationships. The successful candidate will demonstrate significant experience in mental health nursing, particularly within community settings, and will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing mental health care during the perinatal period.
• Ability to support mother-infant relationships.
• Demonstrated experience with a range of mental health problems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe, patient-focused care to women with mental health difficulties.
• Provide assessments and facilitate mother-infant relationships.
• Act as a liaison nurse to other maternity services.

Skills

Communication

Team Working

Problem Solving

Flexibility

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Significant Band 5 experience

Job description

Perinatal Community Mental Health Team Nurse

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for progressive and innovative Mental Health Nurse’s (RMN) to join the Perinatal Mental Health Team within NHS Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. This is a Fife Wide Service and the successful post holders will initially be employed on a Fixed Term Contract until the end of September 2025, with further funding to be agreed.

The Perinatal Mental Health Nurse will focus on the prevention, detection, early intervention care and treatment of new or pre-existing mental illness occurring in women during pregnancy or in the first postnatal year. In addition they will provide pre-conception advice for women at high risk of severe postpartum mental illness. Providing assessment and facilitation of the mother-infant relationship and promoting infant development in the context of maternal mental illness. Acting as a Mental Health Liaison Nurse to the Wider Maternity service you will be committed to partnership working and will establish strong working relationships.

The role will require you to respond to an ever changing and demanding working environment. You will be responsible for delivering safe effective, patient-focused care to women experiencing mental health difficulties during the perinatal period, across a wide spectrum of mental health diagnosis and complexity. This will require you to exercise initiative and autonomy to anticipate and respond to the unpredictability of referrals and the complex demands they present. You will also have the opportunity to provide learning for Peers, Student Nurses and Medical Students, in both General and Mental Health placements and other Health Care Professionals.

Applications for this post are invited from experienced RMN’s able to demonstrate enhanced skills, knowledge and experience of working with patients presenting with a range of mental health problems. You should have significant Band 5 experience preferably in a community and/or a Perinatal setting.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate experience of Team Working, a problem solving/flexible approach, excellent communication skills and continuing professional development. A commitment to partnership working with a range of stakeholders is also essential.

You will receive a comprehensive induction to the service with an identified mentor who will provide clinical/caseload supervision and will support your educational development

The service currently operates within office hours Monday – Friday

Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity –

Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub

• Blink (joinblink.com) If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.
  
  

Informal enquiries and informal visits are welcomed please contact Lead Nurse Gillian Malcolm on 01592 643355 ext 23967, [e-mail]

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Fife welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

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