Perinatal Community Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner

Perinatal Community Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner

Our Norfolk & Waveney Perinatal service won the NSFT Staff Partnership award in 2024 and excellence award in 2022. Each member of the team shows compassion and care towards one another, supporting each other to help each other meet service user needs in a timely way.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of Consultant Psychiatrists, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, a Therapies team, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Assistant Practitioners, Peer Support Workers, Nursery Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Community Team Managers, a Matron and a Service Manager specializing in perinatal mental health. The team has access to specialist perinatal training.

As this is a Community post, it is expected most of our work is completed face to face in service user's homes or the Community, so a valid UK full driving licence is essential. Access to your own vehicle is preferred, though pool cars are available through the Trust's Hiyacar system.

We would consider both full-time and part-time applicants for this post.

If you're enthusiastic, person centred and have the skills needed to work in a community setting, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Perinatal Community Mental Health Team provides prevention, detection and management of mental health problems that complicate pregnancy and the postpartum year.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing a caseload of women with moderate to severe mental health needs within the perinatal period.
• Undertaking initial assessments.
• Formulating an appropriate plan of care/signposting to other services.
• Thinking about the parent infant relationship.
• Participating in Duty rota (1-2 days a month).
• Escalating concerns about safeguarding to ECFS/Children's Services.
• Ensuring all service users have a co-produced care plan and up to date combined assessment.

The team offers therapeutic interventions, nursery nurse interventions, medication reviews, Consultant appointments and advocacy through Peer Support.

We are a cohesive, friendly, and kind team and will support you every step of the way.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced B6 Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with relevant mental health and Community experience to join our Perinatal Community Mental Health team. This vacancy sits within the City and North locality offering a mix of working in both the beautiful Norfolk countryside and our "fine" City. Within our specialist service you can look forward to a supportive and collaborative team with low manageable caseloads, with friendly, visible and accessible senior staff and medics. We offer specialist perinatal training, line management, caseload and clinical supervision monthly.

Here's what our carers/service users have said about us: The team were fantastic in supporting me in my journey back to being well and being able to be a mum to my baby.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• Comprehensive in-house & external training programmes
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign-off Mentor
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical/therapeutic practice

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

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.

Mother and Baby Unit, Hellesdon Hospital

£37,338 to £44,962 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

Reference number

246-CEN

Job locations

Mother and Baby Unit, Hellesdon Hospital