Perinatal Nurse Specialist

West London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

West London NHS Trust is inviting applications for a Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Nurse on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role covers Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham PMHS operations, with a mix of community settings and home visits.

The post requires RMN qualification, relevant perinatal mental health experience and the ability to manage a caseload, provide supervision, and contribute to multi-agency care planning.

Qualifications

• RMN qualification and registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
• Current / up to date entry on the mentorship register (or equivalent).
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring women (age 18+) who are pregnant and booked for delivery and/or have infants under twenty-four months receive appropriate screening and mental health interventions.
• Liaising with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff and other mental health services regarding referrals and care coordination.
• Managing a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs in community settings and during home visits.
• Providing ongoing training, supervision, consultation and advice on mental health issues in childbearing to professionals.
• Participating on rotation in the service daily Duty rota to triage new referrals and urgent presentations in maternity units.
• Supervising and mentoring students in the service.

Skills

Perinatal care expertise

Nurse leadership

Mental health assessment

Care coordination

Education

RMN qualification

Degree level education

Mentorship register

Dual maternity/Health Visitor qualification

Job description

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Main area LS Perinatal Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (12 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week) Job ref 222-H&F-121-A

Site Hounslow House Town Middlesex Salary £45,953 - £54,254 per annum pro rata inclusive of 15% HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 29/10/2026

West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.

Job overview

The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) have an exciting opportunity for motivated and creative Band 6 Nurses (fixed term for 12 months), who may be looking for a chance to develop their skills in the specialist area of Perinatal.

The vacancy is for 1.0wte Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Nurse to work in Ealing borough for the Tri-Borough Perinatal Service.

The Ealing PMH Service has operational bases at Trust Headquarters at Armstrong Way(Ealing PMHS), Hounslow House for the Hounslow PMHS, and Hammersmith Hospital for the H&F PMHS. The PMHS works in an agile way – combination of community settings (mental health unit / maternity units / children’s centres), home visits and working from home. We require that staff do 60% office work as per Trust requirement.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring women (age 18+) who are pregnant and booked for delivery and/or have infants under twenty-four months receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs and these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.
• Actively liaising with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals’ meetings.
• Efficiently managing a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in community sites (children’s centres), joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals, home visits and care planning meetings.
• Providing on-going training, supervision, consultation and advice on mental health issues in childbearing to a range of professionals who work closely with this group of women.
• Participating on rotation in the service daily Duty rota, to support the triage of new referrals and urgent / emergency presentations in the maternity units.
• Supervising and mentoring students in the service.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.

The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person specification

Qualifications and training

• RMN qualification and evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role
• Current / up to date entry on the mentorship register (or equivalent)
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Dual qualified as RGN, Midwife or Health Visitor
• Specialist training in perinatal and/or infant mental health
• Qualification / training in additional specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions

Experience

• Significant post qualification experience working in mental health services
• Experience working with women with serious mental illness
• Evidence of networking within the Perinatal specialty
• Experience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
• Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
• Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
• Experience of undertaking complex mental health and mental state, risk and needs assessments
• Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
• Experience of delivering both individual and group based interventions
• Experience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals
• Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
• Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
• Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning for women with serious mental illness

Skills and ability

• Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make semi-autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options
• Team/self management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
• Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
• Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
• Ability to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
• Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
• Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
• Ability to develop and deliver training on mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
• Ability to provide supervision to staff within own and other disciplines and to use supervision effectively
• Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
• Ability to work effectively from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation, exclusion and stigma
• Computer literate to an intermediate level
• Ability to demonstrate to empathise towards individuals with a mental health problem as well as show a positive attitude towards mental health care
• Able to work seamlessly with other professional groups
• Ability to deal with stress appropriately and work under pressure
• Commitment to life-long learning

Knowledge

• Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
• Up to date knowledge and awareness of recent research and current best practice in child care
• Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
• Knowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
• Understanding of clinical governance and audit issues
• Understanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to Child Protection and Children in Need
• Knowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
• Knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. MHA, MCA
• Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry

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