Perinatal Nursery Nurse

NHS North East London; Ilford; On-site; GBP 4,000 - 6,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider is seeking an enthusiastic nursery nurse to join their Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service in Barking and Dagenham. The successful candidate will work with mothers and infants facing mental health challenges, delivering tailored interventions in a supportive team environment. Applicants should have a robust understanding of child development and maternal mental health. This permanent role involves community work across various settings for optimal care.

Benefits

High Cost Area Supplement

Comprehensive induction program

Mandatory training

Qualifications

• Robust knowledge of child development and attachment.
• Experience in working with mothers experiencing mental health issues.
• Ability to communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing care.
• Offer therapeutic input focusing on mother and baby relationships.
• Communicate effectively with other professionals involved in care.

Skills

Knowledge of child development

Experience with maternal mental illness

Therapeutic input skills

Job description

Job Overview

The Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and knowledgeable nursery nurse to join our team on a permanent basis for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The successful post holder will work as part of our Multi disciplinary team, providing treatment and intervention to women during the perinatal period who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties. The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants in Barking and Dagenham. The Nursery Nurse role involves working with mothers and babies in their own homes, the community or at other premises such as childrens centres across the boroughs.

Responsibilities

• The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring that there is appropriate communication with other professionals involved in the care of the child and mother.
• The postholder will work alongside professionals offering therapeutic input with the mother and baby relationship as a focus of your work.
• The post holder would be expected to have robust knowledge of child development and attachment which will inform their intervention. They should also have experience with maternal mental illness and the impact this has on the mother baby relationship.

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).

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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

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

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.