Perinatal Team Manager

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Cambridge; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) seeks a Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager to lead a multidisciplinary service across the county. The role focuses on accessible, compassionate, recovery‑focused care, staff supervision, governance and improvement, coordinating maternity, health visiting, social care and community partners to improve maternal and infant wellbeing.

The post requires HCPC or NMC registration, leadership experience and the ability to travel across

Qualifications

• HCPC or NMC registration or eligible and registered.
• Evidence of ongoing personal and professional development.
• Leadership training and teaching/coaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary perinatal mental health service.
• Oversee service delivery, supervision, quality improvement and risk management.
• Ensure safeguarding and collaborate with maternity, health visiting and social care.
• Provide professional leadership and support risk assessment and care planning.
• Drive policy alignment, innovative practice and evidence-based care.
• Manage human and budget resources and coordinate care pathways.

Skills

Leadership

IT skills

Change management

Prioritisation

Team management

Person-centred care

Perinatal mental health

Service improvement

Leadership theories

Education

HCPC or NMC registration

Continued personal and professional development

Leadership training

Teaching/coaching experience

Job description

Are you passionate about the perinatal period? Are you a Nurse or AHP? Do you possess the leadership skills to drive positive change in the dynamic and developing field of perinatal mental health? If so, we invite you to embark on a rewarding journey with CPFT as a Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager.

At CPFT, we recognise the critical importance of mental health during the perinatal period, and we are committed to providing outstanding care and support to mothers and their families. As a Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead a dedicated team of professionals in delivering essential services to those who need it most.

This role is not just a job; it's a chance to make a lasting impact on the lives of mothers, babies, and families across our community. If you're ready to lead, innovate, and collaborate in a dynamic healthcare environment, join us in our mission to promote perinatal mental health and build healthier futures for all.

Main duties of the job

The Perinatal Team Manager is responsible for leading and managing a multidisciplinary perinatal mental health service, ensuring the provision of accessible, compassionate, and recovery-focused care.

The role involves overseeing service delivery, staff supervision and development, quality improvement, risk management, safeguarding processes, and collaborative working with maternity, health visiting, social care, and wider community services to improve maternal mental health and infant wellbeing.

The post holder will provide professional leadership and contribute to complex clinical decision‑making, supporting staff in the assessment and management of risk, care planning, and the delivery of evidence‑based interventions to ensure safe and effective outcomes for women, babies, and families.

You will support the evolving team by ensuring that operational policies are adjusted and aligned to service transformation, and that innovative practice is robustly implemented, and you will be expected to maintain a visible, professional presence providing staff with assistance, advice, and support.

The role will also include management of human and budgetary resources, ensuring evidence‑based practice within the service as well as evident ability to co‑ordinate varying tasks in care delivery and manage any unplanned challenges.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

To provide operational management and support the clinical leadership across the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

To contribute to, quality improvement and problem solving across the clinical pathways.

Ensure clinical governance arrangements are in place to cover all of the clinical activity.

Ensure that staff are appropriately skilled and trained to deliver the service and to provide supervision.

Ensure satisfactory supervision arrangements are in place for all elements of service delivery.

Clinical governance arrangements are in place to cover all of the clinical activity.

Support and undertake risk formulation and risk management for individual clients and to assist and advise other professions on perinatal aspects of risk assessment, and risk management in line with Trust and inter‑agency policies and procedures, including work with clients deemed as vulnerable adults.

To support the structure of clinical supervision in the service of clients with complex perinatal needs, enabling other members of the service to support and direct them to the appropriate place in the care pathway.

Monitor and evaluate the standard of care and take actions to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained.

Identify and be responsive to the diverse cultural, social, and spiritual needs of all patients.

Work flexibly to ensure cover across all teams. To provide clinical interventions and assessments depending on service need.

This post is predominately Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm but there may be times when flexibility is expected in line with role and responsibility. The service operates countywide and includes the Perinatal Trauma & Loss Service.

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Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• HCPC or NMC Professionals Registration
• Evidence of continued personal and professional development.
• Leadership Training
• Teaching/Coaching experience

Experience

• Post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs in the perinatal period.
• Evidence of experience in service evaluation and improvements.
• Experience of collaborative working with, and understanding of the roles of midwifery and health visiting.
• Quality Improvement training and project management experience
• Experience of delivering supervision

Skills & Abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Competent IT skills including word, outlook, excel and power point.
• Ability to manage change and deal with conflict / stressful situations.
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively, meeting expected deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience of investigating SI’s/complaints
• Experience of leadership and managing teams.
• Specialist knowledge of person-centred care and its application.
• Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of adults during the perinatal period.
• Advanced understanding of the development of infants during the perinatal period, and impact of maternal mental health
• Knowledge of service improvement models and its application.
• Knowledge of leadership theories.

Other

• Ability to foster good interagency working.
• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity .

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre‑employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Michaela Miller Job title Service Manager Email address [e-mail] Additional information

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