Perinatal Mental Health Nurse

Integrated Care System; Lewisham; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System is seeking a Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join the expanding Community Perinatal Teams in Lewisham and surrounding areas. The role requires a passionate and clinically confident professional to work with women facing moderate to severe mental health issues during the perinatal period. The successful candidate will provide assessments, interventions, and treatment, and will have opportunities for career development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous pay and pensions

Flexible working options

Career development programs

Competitive car lease deals

Keyworker housing assistance

NHS discounts from various retail brands

Counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Experience of working in an Inpatient or community setting
• Experience of working with Patients with severe and enduring mental health problems
• Use of evidence-based interventions relating to the care of service users with severe and enduring mental health problems

Responsibilities

• Working closely with colleagues in PMHT's and providing support within the Perinatal workforce training.
• Contributing to a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service for assessment, intervention, and treatment for women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period.

Skills

Risk management

Crisis management

Understanding of Maternal Mental illness

Education

RMN with current NMC registration and revalidation

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Perinatal Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 05 August 2025

We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join our Community Perinatal Teams across the Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark teams due to further expansion of the Perinatal Community services. You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You will also have experience of working with women who suffer from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.

You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.

You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of theopportunities challengesthat this brings.

Main duties of the job

About the role:

Working closely with your colleagues in PMHT's, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within SLaM and London wide. In addition, you will be partof the Pan London Community Perinatal Nurses network. This is a great opportunity to supervise juniorstaff, student nurses as well asimplementing new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.

The Lewisham Perinatal Service provides a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service to service users residing within the Borough of Lewisham offering assessment, intervention and treatment to women who suffer from moderate to severe mental health disorders in the perinatal period.

About us

About the location:

You will be based at the Lewisham Perinatal Team, Old Town Hall, Catford, SE6 4RU.

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

Job responsibilities

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. Its important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RMN with current NMC registration and revalidation.
• Evidence of on-going professional development

Experience

• Experience of working in an Inpatient or community setting
• Experience of working with Patients with severe and enduring mental health problems
• Understanding of Maternal Mental illness
• Skills in risk assessment, risk management and crisis management
• Use of the use of evidence-based interventions relating to the care of service users with severe and enduring mental health problems

Knowledge

• Knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding children policies, Local and National
• Knowledge of Relevant legislation including MHA, Children Act 1989, Carers Act
• Different Interventions for patients with Perinatal Mental Health illness

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

£44,806 to £53,134 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS