Perinatal Specialist Assessor Nurse

Derbyshire Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Perinatal Community Mental Health Team is seeking a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to assess and support pregnant women and those with infants up to two years old. The role involves in-depth assessments, coordinating care pathways and signposting to therapies within a multidisciplinary team.

Based in South Derbyshire at the Radbourne Unit, this 37.5-hour post offers hybrid working with home and office rotations.

Qualifications

• Essential degree in mental health nursing or equivalent.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of women in the perinatal period.
• Signpost to psychological therapies, primary care or third sector as appropriate.
• Collaborate with primary and secondary care and social care agencies.
• Support in mentoring and training junior staff and students.

Skills

Excellent written communication

EPR systems

Gender and diversity understanding

Mobile across large geographical area

Education

Degree in mental health nursing or equivalent

Job description

Job summary

The Perinatal CMHT are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 CPN to join our team in South Derbyshire, based at the Radbourne Unit, Derby. Experience of the Perinatal service is not required but an keen interest in the area is essential. The Post is for a specialist assessor role who will have previous experience of completing in-depth assessments and will be responsible for assessing a range of mental health difficulties suffered by pregnant women and those with infants up to two years old. this will include identifying risk factors, evaluating the parent-infant relationship, and determining the most appropriate treatment pathway. This may include signposting and referring on to psychological therapies, primary care, third sector organisations and also referrals within the perinatal mental health for specific pathways.

This post is 37.50 per hours a week, and is a Fixed term 12 Month contract.

The perinatal mental health service cares for women who are suffering with moderate to severe mental health problems, from the end of the first trimester in pregnancy up until the baby is two years old.

The service works with women and their families from Derby City and North and South Derbyshire.

We operate a flexible hybrid working model, with staff working from home and the office on a rota basis. Through investment in digital technology, we offer both video and face-to-face appointments, providing patients with greater choice in how they access our service.

Main duties of the job

You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary community team offering a comprehensive perinatal mental health service to women experiencing mental health difficulties in the perinatal period.

You will be responsible for facilitating assessments of women with a range of mental health difficulties and where appropriate signposting to other services. you may support in the triaging of referrals into the team on a rota basis. We also operate a dedicated advice line where you will be able to support and advise other professionals who are thinking of referring into our service.

You will need to work collaboratively and communicate effectively across primary care, secondary care and children's social care agencies.

We are committed to the training and development of future nurses who we have on regular placement and you will be expected to contribute to this through mentorship and facilitating learning opportunities.

About us

We are a well established team, with a wealth of experience in this area and pride ourselves on delivering quality care to our patients and their families.

Our service has been accredited for many years by the Royal College of Psychiatrists Care Quality Network for Perinatal Mental Health, as we have met and adhere to the required standards for delivering perinatal care in the community, ensuring best practise is adhered to.

We have a weekly MDT where you will be able to discuss referrals and the recent assessments you have carried out along with any support you may need to outcome these.

Local induction, along with the Trusts corporate induction, will be provided and there are opportunities available to access training to support the development of your knowledge and skills in this area. Induction will also include shadowing experienced members of the team and regular clinical, managerial and team supervision.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional knowledge gained through a degree in mental health nursing or equivalent
• Evidence of continued development and learning

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification to mentor students

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written communication skills
• Able to navigate electronic patient record systems
• Demonstrate an understanding of gender and diversity issues and how they relate to service provision service provision
• Able to be mobile across a large geographical area

Desirable

• Qualification/skills in family/therapeutic interventions relevant to role

Knowledge

Essential

• In-depth post-graduation experience
• Experience providing supervision to junior staff
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding children and how to manage this in a specialist mental health setting.
• Relevant experience in psychiatric assessments , intervention and treatment.

Desirable

• Experience of working with people with complex needs and mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period and has further interest in this field

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).