Job summary
- Main area
- PMOA directorate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7228089-LF
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham Old Town Hall
- Town
- Lewisham
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Perinatal Mental Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
About the team:
We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join our Community Perinatal Teams across the Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark teams due to further expansion of the Perinatal Community services. You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You will also have experience of working with women who suffer from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.
You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.
You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings.
Main duties of the job
About the role:
Working closely with your colleagues in PMHT’s, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within SLaM and London wide. In addition, you will be part of the Pan London Community Perinatal Nurses network. This is a great opportunity to supervise junior staff, student nurses as well as implementing new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.
The Lewisham Perinatal Service provides a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service to service users residing within the Borough of Lewisham offering assessment, intervention and treatment to women who suffer from moderate to severe mental health disorders in the perinatal period.
Working for our organisation
About the location:
You will be based at the Lewisham Perinatal Team, Old Town Hall, Catford, SE6 4RU.
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
We look forward to receiving your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN with current NMC registration and revalidation.
- Evidence of on-going professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an Inpatient or community setting
- Experience of working with Patients with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Understanding of Maternal Mental illness
- Skills in risk assessment, risk management and crisis management
Desirable criteria
- Use of the use of evidence-based interventions relating to the care of service users with severe and enduring mental health problems
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding children policies, Local and National
- Knowledge of Relevant legislation including MHA, Children Act 1989, Carers Act
- Different Interventions for patients with Perinatal Mental Health illness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sam Chong
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07964 763 766
List jobs with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors