Specialist Nursery Nurse

TN United Kingdom; Ilford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Nursery Nurse to join their Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service. This role involves providing vital support to mothers and their infants during the perinatal period, focusing on mental health and attachment-based approaches. You'll be part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality interventions tailored to the unique needs of families. Join a supportive and innovative organization committed to employee development and well-being, where your contributions will make a real difference in the lives of families in the community.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Health and wellbeing support

Comprehensive induction programme

Qualifications

• Experience working with women and babies in perinatal mental health.
• Knowledge of child development stages and antenatal care.

Responsibilities

• Assist the multidisciplinary team in family-centered care.
• Work with mothers and infants in their homes and community.

Skills

Therapeutic relationship building

Child development knowledge

Experience with maternal mental health

Communication skills

Education

Diploma in Childcare and Education

Early Years Degree

Job description

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

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 fixed-term basis for the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

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 Waltham Forest.

The Nursery Nurse role involves working with mothers and babies in their own homes, the community or at other premises such as children’s centres across the boroughs.

Please be aware that this advert will be closed early if we received a high volume of applicants

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the multidisciplinary team in meeting the needs of children and their families by undertaking delegated duties that support and enable family centred care. To 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.

You 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.

Working for our organisation

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

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).

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).

Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualification

• Diploma in Childcare and Education (NNEB), Cache level 3, early years diploma or Diploma in childcare studies(BTEC)
• Early years Degree

Experience

• Experience of working within a community setting within the NHS
• demonstrate an interest in working with women and babies in the area of perinatal mental health Experience in or able to
• Experience of working with infants and their families in varied contexts
• Assessing developmental stages with from birth and up to 2 years
• Working within multi-agency environment
• Experience of working with mental health clients
• Experience of delivering groups

Knowledge

• Knowledge of developmental stages of babies from birth to 1 year and recognition where development falls out of expected milestones
• Knowledge of antenatal care and preparation
• Knowledge of local safeguarding policies and procedures
• Skills and Knowledge of caring for babies from birth to 1 year

Skills

• Ability to form therapeutic relationships
• Exposure to distressing and emotional circumstances

other

• To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
• To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

embodiment of trust values

• Putting people first
• Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
• Being professional and honest
• Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity and choice

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.