Perinatal Infant Mental Health Lead Health Visitor

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Tonbridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Lead Health Visitor to focus on Perinatal and Infant Mental Health. The role involves providing expert clinical leadership, developing care pathways, and implementing training programs. Candidates should have relevant expertise and a commitment to delivering high standards of care. The position supports a flexible work environment to facilitate work-life balance while ensuring excellent service delivery to families.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to equity and diversity

Supportive workplace culture

Qualifications

• High level of relevant expert knowledge in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health.
• Experience in developing and implementing multi-disciplinary care pathways.
• Ability to provide clinical leadership and training to teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of mental health services for women and infants.
• Provide clinical leadership in Health Visiting Service.
• Develop training packages aligned with policies for public health.

Skills

Expert knowledge in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

Clinical leadership

Training development

Relationship-building with parents

Education

Relevant qualifications in health visiting or nursing

Job description

Lead Health Visitor – Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the Kent Health Visiting Service as a Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Lead Health Visitor. The Lead Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the Health Visiting Service's Perinatal and Infant Mental Health offer.

They will work in the locality areas of West Kent (Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone) to provide expert clinical leadership to the Health Visiting Service and multi-disciplinary teams in relation to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and Parent and Infant Relationship.

The post holder will ensure the development and implementation of comprehensive multi-disciplinary care pathways, policies and procedures, to address the mental health needs of women, infants, and their families in the perinatal period, actively working in collaboration with other services.

The PIMH Lead Health Visitor role requires a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills to ensure consistency, equity and efficiency of service delivery to families. They will work as part of the local health visiting team to support the wider delivery of the health visiting service, provide relevant training pertaining to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health, Parent Infant Relationship, Emotional Well-being and Birth Trauma.

The lead will also provide support and guidance to practitioners with an emphasis on prevention and early identification of mental health difficulties. They will build/strengthen partnership and foster positive relationships between parents and their infants. This will be achieved through the development of training packages, and programmes that aligned with national and local policies and procedures which will be delivered internally, to our external partners and the wider public health workforce.

The Lead will also be responsible for co-facilitated group interventions, and support the delivery of the Institute of Health Visiting's Emotional Well-being Visits intervention and ensure that practice is evidence-based.

About Kent Health Visiting Service

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values: compassionate, aspirational, responsive, excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission.

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit us both.