Specialist Practitioner - CWS Perinatal MH Service

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Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a practitioner in perinatal mental health, where you'll support mothers facing mental health challenges during pregnancy and postpartum. This full-time role offers competitive pay, training, and opportunities for career advancement in a supportive team environment focused on high-quality patient care.

Benefits

Fully funded lifelong learning opportunities

Supportive work culture focused on career development

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification essential.
• Continuing professional development evidence required.
• Experience in adult mental health is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health service for individuals with perinatal mental health issues.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams for assessment and treatment.
• Participate in training and supervision tailored to the role.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Education

First Level Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Job description

Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (FTC / Secondment to 16th June 2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 354-CS-21708

Employer Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Employer type NHS Site Swandean Town Worthing Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/07/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Come and join us

We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

We are excited to be an expanding service and are looking to recruit a practitioner - RMN to join the Coastal West Sussex Team - this post is full time maternity cover throughto 16thJune 2026 as fixed term contract or secondment.

Full training, support and supervision given- and this role can build on previous mental health experience. This is an exciting time to join a developing, innovative specialist service!

Main duties of the job

As a practitioner in the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health service you will be working closely with psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinical practitioners, as well as management and administration colleagues, to provide a mental health service for individuals with perinatal mental health problems. We offer assessment and treatment in clinic community settings as well as in the home. The service also works closely with other agencies such as children and family services, primary care as well as non-statutory organisations.

This role comes with specialist perinatal training as well as a package of supervision and reflective practice and lead nurse support.

Working for our organisation

The Long Term Plan for Mental Health sets out national and local ambitions to improve care for people in pregnancy through the first stages of the babies life who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental health difficulties.

One in five women experience post or ante natal depression, anxiety or in some cases psychosis, during pregnancy or in the first year after childbirth.

Perinatal community mental health services provide specialist care for women (and their babies) with moderate to severe mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or severe depression. The long-term benefits of this kind of specialist care offers early help and support to parents and babies to help with a range of perinatal issues including parent infant bonding.

Sussex Partnership have a Perinatal Mental Health Service that covers Sussex. This is delivered by four teams across the area. The service is committed to delivering a high quality service with a strong focus on staff wellbeing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description for outlines of the main duties and responsibilities of this post, and the person specification which lists the requirements necessary to perform the job. Candidates will be assessed according to the extent to which they meet the specification.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• First Level Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience in Adult Mental Health
• Working within a multi-professional and cross organisational environment

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

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.