Job overview

The North London NHS Foundation Trust Perinatal Services comprise of the Maternal Mental Health Service, Maple and the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS).

The Maple Service is for people whose trauma symptoms have a moderate to severe impact on their mental health. This may be due to a traumatic birth experience, pregnancy loss, neonatal death, or the loss of a baby as a result of social care procedures due to safeguarding concerns. The trauma may also exist prior to conception, e.g. when tokophobia prevents a woman from achieving a wanted pregnancy. The service has been running since 2021 and is a service which primarily offers psychological therapy.

The aim of the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS) team is to detect, prevent and treat perinatal mental health needs to improve the experience of pregnancy and the two years postpartum for service users, the babies and their families. The service has been running since 2017 and delivers care utilising skills from a multi disciplinary staff group.

The North London NHS Foundation Trust Perinatal Services provide care across five boroughs in the North Central London area; Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey.

Main duties of the job

Maple and SPMHS operate across 3 clinical sub-teams:

• South Team (Camden & Islington): Team base: First Floor, West Wing, St Pancras Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, NW1 0PE
• East Team (Enfield & Haringey): Team base: Forest Road Primary Care Centre, Ground Floor, 308A Hertford Road, London, N9 7HD
• West Team (Barnet): Team base: Cedar Place, North London Partners NHS, 890 High Road, North Finchley, N12 9RH

Services offered by the post-holder will include providing psychological assessments and interventions to service users in line with the evidence base and NICE guidelines. They will conduct individualised therapy sessions as well as group sessions alongside other MDT colleagues. They will also offer advice and consultation based on psychological formulation to referrers, staff of the Maple Service and other professional and non-professional groups. 

This post will be based in the South Team working with service users who live in Camden & Islington.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4.  We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.