Perinatal Mental Health Nurse

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Ilford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High Cost Area Allowance

Induction programme

Job summary

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a registered mental health nurse to join the Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service in the London area. You will work with pregnant women and partners, providing mental health interventions and contributing to a carefully planned safety network of care for families across multiple sites.

The post involves leading direct clinical work, supporting service development, and collaborating with multiagency teams.

Qualifications

• Registered mental health nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in the perinatal field desirable, learning mindset and adaptability welcomed.
• Strong communication and organisational skills across multiagency settings.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate weekly perinatal clinic for women on the moderate spectrum.
• Assist clinical lead with assessment and care management, ensuring high standards.
• Support service development, policy improvements and quality assurance.
• Carry a complex clinical caseload and provide expert clinical advice.
• Represent the service within NELFT and with partner agencies.

Education

RMN / NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

Job Overview

The Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service is a specialist service providing assessment, treatment interventions, and seamless care pathways for women/birthing people who experience moderate to severe mental health difficulties in the perinatal period. The service is a trust-wide provision working across the four London Boroughs of Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Barking & Dagenham and Havering.

The Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service is a specialist service providing assessment, treatment interventions, and seamless care pathways for women/birthing people who experience moderate to severe mental health difficulties in the perinatal period. The service is a trust-wide provision working across the four London Boroughs of Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Barking & Dagenham and Havering.

The Service liaises closely with a wide multiagency network including Maternity, Health Visiting, Primary Care Services, Talking Therapies, Secondary Adult Mental Health Services, CAMHS, Inpatient and Crisis Services, and Social Care.

As well as offering direct clinical interventions, the team provides expert consultancy, training and supervision frameworks for a range of professionals across all tiers of intervention in the statutory and non-statutory sectors locally.

The postholder will be a registered mental health nurse (RMN), providing mental health interventions to pregnant women and/or their partners/significant others in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. As a member of the multidisciplinary Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service, the post holder will work constructively with colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies.

Experience of working in the perinatal field is desirable, however a willingness and enthusiasm to learn alongside transferable skills will also be strongly considered.

Main duties of the job

• Facilitate weekly clinic for perinatal women on the moderate spectrum
• To assist the clinical lead with the overall responsibility for assessment and care management of women referred to the service by providing professional leadership and ensuring the promotion of high practice standards and service delivery for service users and their carers.
• To support the Head of service, the Service Manager, Team Lead, Clinical Lead and the Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrists with the development of the service, contributing to the planning and development of the service, recommending improvements to policies and procedures, and assisting in the improvement of standards and quality assurance.
• To carry a complex clinical caseload
• To represent the Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service both within the NELFT and externally with other partnership agencies
• To provide clinical advice around an agreed operational policy and evidence-based practice.

The post holder will be responsible for managing their own workload, prioritising tasks effectively, and ensuring deadlines are met. They will be expected to work independently as well as part of a team, demonstrating flexibility and a commitment to high standards. The role may involve working across multiple sites and requires excellent communication and organisational skills.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement Outer London (B&D, Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest, CEME)

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 p.a. pro rata for part time).

Working for Us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.