Perinatal Nursery Nurse

Integrated Care System; Harlow; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Essex is seeking a Perinatal Nursery Nurse to support mothers and their infants in a mental health context. The role involves delivering high-quality nursing care, monitoring development, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to improve care delivery. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in nursery nursing, with a focus on supporting mental health challenges.

Benefits

Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience working with mothers with mental health difficulties is essential.
• Understanding child safeguarding practices is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursery nurse expertise and interventions in a perinatal mental health setting.
• Monitor developmental progress and ensure care for infants.
• Work collaboratively with families and community nursing teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaborative partnership working

Time management

Planning skills

Education

Degree or equivalent in Nursery Nursing

Job description

Go back Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Perinatal Nursery Nurse

The closing date is 21 August 2025

The Essex Perinatal Mental Health Service has successfully established a new specialist service in the community over the last seven years.

This is an exciting opportunity for Band 4 Nursery Nurses to join our dedicated and growing team of experts in this field.

The service operates from five hubs across north and south Essex and the current vacancy is with the NE Hub based within Colchester.

The post holders will introduce Nursery Nurse expertise and interventions to the delivery of specialist community perinatal mental health care to women across Essex and will play an exciting role in shaping how the role benefit women and their families. It is also an opportunity to be part of service development to improve delivery of care and clinical practice working within the multi-disciplinary team framework together with our Perinatal Leadership Team, Practitioners, Perinatal Psychology workforce, Perinatal Consultant Psychiatrists, Support workers, Social workers and Occupational Therapist.

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate experience of working with mums with mental health difficulties together with sound child safeguarding practice. Good communication, collaborative partnership working, time management and planning skills are essential.

Ability to travel is essential and so candidates must hold a valid driving Licence and daily use of a vehicle.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a member of the Perinatal Mental Health Service, assisting in the provision of interventions to meet the needs of the infants of those women receiving our specialist service. Promoting and supporting the health of the woman and her infant and her family.
• To provide an effective and supportive nursery nurse service to women in the antenatal and postnatal period, within a perinatal mental health setting.
• Support parents and other Perinatal Mental Health Service clinician's to ensure the emotional and practical care of infants and to monitor developmental progress.
• To ensure that there is a caring and stimulating environment for infants or children in their home environment.
• To work in partnership with families and the wider community nursing teams e.g. Midwives, Health Visitors, Community staff nurses, Community Nursery Nurses. Working with parents in their homes in a supportive role to aid them in their journey to recovery

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Job responsibilities

• To support the work of the Perinatal Mental Health Service through the provision of high quality, evidence based nursery nursing care interventions to mothers and infants who meet the eligibility criteria under the supervision of a Clinical clinicians or qualified Allied Health Professional.
• To work with other Perinatal Mental Health Service clinicians, providing nursery nursing input to a defined group of mothers, their babies and families providing support and assistance in both Antenatal and postnatal period.
• To work collaboratively within the wider Perinatal Mental Health Service team complimenting the ongoing interventions of clinicians and ensuring the infants welfare is paramount at all times.
• To work collaboratively with the mother and to provide specialist clinical interventions to clients, infants and families experiencing perinatal mental illness.
• To ensure an assessment of the baby or children is conducted and documented upon every contact.
• To ensure regular monitoring of physical health and developmental milestones are undertaken in conjunction with the Health Visiting service.

To ensure that a mothers involvement is fully promoted and that they are consulted about the care being given to their baby or children

Person Specification

Degree in childcare

• qualification in degree or equivalent in Nursery Nursing
• previous experience of working with perinatal Mental health

experience wotking with children

• experience working with children under the age of 2 years
• previous health visiting team experience

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.

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

£27,485 to £30,162 a yearper annum, pro rata for part time, plus 5% HCA