Job summary
- Main area
- Menatl Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5)
- Job ref
- 363TH7233091
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tower Hamelts Perinatal Mental Health Team
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum Inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/06/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
The Tower Hamlets Perinatal Community Team is a specialist mental health team that supports women and birthing people in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health difficulties using a multi-disciplinary approach. As a specialist service, it takes on complex cases in secondary mental health services. The Perinatal Community Team has close links with the East London Mother and Baby Unit.
The successful post holder will be passionate about Perinatal mental health, and have experience in taking full bio-psychosocial assessment, possess safe risk assessment skills and be able to manage their time effectively in holding their own caselaod, provide duty cover for the service when required. The post holder will supervise junior staff as well as provide teaching to the midwives.
Main duties of the job
To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:
- Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and ongoing reviews
- Training other staff
- Joint work with other staff within the team and also external.
- Advice and consultation to other staff
- Facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriate
- Liaison work with maternity services
- Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
- Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:
- Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and ongoing reviews
- Training other staff
- Joint work with other staff within the team and also external.
- Advice and consultation to other staff
- Facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriate
- Liaison work with maternity services
- Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
- Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of professional qualification in nursing
- • Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- • Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Desirable criteria
- • Educated to degree level or equivalent • ENB 998 or equivalent • Clinical supervision training • Qualified non-medical prescriber • Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic/ psychological interventions
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Minimum 4 years post qualification experience
- • Minimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
- • Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- • Experience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- • Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
- • Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- • Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- • Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- • Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
- • Experience of supervising mental health professionals and/or practice teaching
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to provide supervision
- • Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- • Ability to implement evidence-based practice
- • Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- • Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
- • Ability to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
- • Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
- • Ability to use supervision effectively
- • Ability to work in stressful situations and demonstrate emotional resilience.
- • Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
- • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
- • Ability to work effectively from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation,exclusion and stigma.
- • IT literate
- • Ability to work autonomously and make decisions
- • Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and ‘virtual’ team
- • Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- • Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- • Up to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
- • Knowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
- • Understanding of clinical governance and audit issues
- • Understanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to child protection and children in need
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
- Parveen Bhatia
- Job title
- Operational lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 771 5826
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