Perinatal Mental Health Nurse

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic Parent-Baby Emotional Wellbeing Service as a Band 6 Perinatal Mental Health Nurse. This role involves providing emotional support, conducting assessments, and working closely with health professionals to assist families during and after pregnancy. This fixed-term opportunity until March 2026 is perfect for someone looking to enhance their experience in perinatal mental health. Deliver impactful interventions while being supported by a collaborative and innovative team.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering 1:1 mental health support.
• Confident in mental health presentation assessments.
• Knowledge of emotional wellbeing interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide emotional wellbeing visits and conduct mental health assessments.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care.
• Deliver perinatal mental health awareness training.

Skills

Safeguarding assessment

Perinatal mental health understanding

Education

NMC Registered Nurse (Mental Health)

Job description

We are seeking a committed and compassionate Band 6 Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join our dynamic, trauma-informed Parent-Baby Emotional Wellbeing (PBEW) Service in Waltham Forest.

The PBEW Service is a borough-wide triage and therapeutic holding service supporting families during pregnancy and the first two years postpartum. It offers early identification, emotional wellbeing support, and time-limited therapeutic work while clients are awaiting or transitioning into other pathways such as Talking Therapies, PPIMHS, or Family Hubs.

The team is hosted by TH GP Care Group and works in close partnership with Waltham Forest health and early years systems.

Following a successful first year of delivery and outstanding outcomes, the service was recommissioned for an additional year with the potential to be extended again in the next commissioning cycle.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build experience in perinatal mental health, parent-infant work, and integrated borough-wide service delivery.

This 30-hour post is offered as a fixed-term contract until March 2026 and is an excellent opportunity for a secondment.

Main duties of the job

You will provide emotional wellbeing visits, conduct mental health assessments, and contribute to MDT planning to support families across the perinatal pathway. You'll work in partnership with Health Visitors, Early Help, maternity, and local mental health teams to offer joined-up care to families experiencing mild to moderate emotional wellbeing needs.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough-level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services, and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Learn more about Tower Hamlets Together: https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

• Innovation and support for primary care
• Being a great place to work
• Integrating primary and community care
• Providing high-quality, cost-effective care to local people
• Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Job responsibilities

Main duties and responsibilities

1. Clinical Delivery

Deliver emotional wellbeing visits and brief interventions to parents experiencing perinatal mental health concerns of mild to moderate severity.

Undertake mental health assessments and reassessments (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7, MORS, Family Health Needs Assessments), underpinned by trauma-informed and relational practice.

Support initial assessments or triage where needed due to staff absence or high demand.

2. Teamworking and MDT Contribution

Contribute to case formulation and care planning within multidisciplinary team meetings.

Work closely with Band 7 staff and Psychological Therapists to ensure holistic, family-centred support.

Attend reflective practice and clinical supervision as part of ongoing development and safe practice.

Work in partnership with Health Visitors, Family Hubs, maternity services, and other community teams to coordinate care and ensure integrated support for families.

Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to support safe transitions and joined-up service delivery.

4. Training and Capacity Building

Support the delivery of perinatal mental health awareness training to professionals across the borough.

Promote emotionally attuned, relational ways of working with families among partner professionals.

5. Safeguarding and Risk

Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns in line with local and organizational procedures.

Monitor mental health and family risk factors and share concerns promptly within MDT or with the Operational Lead.

Maintain accurate and timely records of interventions, assessments, and communications.

6. Professional and Clinical Governance

Adhere to the professional standards, competencies, and values of your relevant registration (e.g., NMC).

Maintain own continuing professional development, and participate in line management, supervision, and appraisal.

Follow all GP Care Group policies relating to clinical practice, safeguarding, information governance, and equality and diversity.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

• Confident in identifying safeguarding concerns and understanding thresholds for escalation.
• Clear understanding of perinatal mental health presentations (e.g., anxiety, depression, adjustment difficulties) and their impact on parental functioning and infant outcomes.

Other

• Willingness to travel across the borough for home visits and community-based work.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse (Mental Health)

Experience

• Experience delivering direct 1:1 mental health support (e.g., psychoeducation, emotional wellbeing interventions, anxiety management).

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.

Salary: £42,939 to £50,697 per year, including Outer HCAS (pro-rata).