Job summary
- Main area
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-TH8017932
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tower Hamlets Perinatal Mental Health Team, Burdett House, Mile End Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist
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
Main duties of the job
To deliver highly specialist evidence based assessment, care planning, treatment and review for service users in the perinatal period.
To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to inpatient and community services on best practice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to two years old.
To work intensively with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to two years old.
To liaise and work with the Trust Mother and Baby Unit.
To work as a member of the MDT exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of dangerousness, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
To be mindful of the needs of women, children, young people, families and individuals from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
To ensure that all service users have a perinatal plan, which may require pre-birth and post-birth meetings.
To attend Safeguarding Children meetings as appropriate and provide written and verbal reports.
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
See attached the Job description and Person specification for further details on the role for the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Registered mental health nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Evidence of Perinatal Mental health training and Safeguarding children practice
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Practice Assessor training or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 4 years post qualification experience and 2 years 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 undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Ability to provide supervision
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
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
- Rebekah Rawding
- Job title
- Senior Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0204 558 7417
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