Job overview

Advertised pending Royal College Approval

Our Brockington Parent and Baby Unit is welcoming applications to their post of Consultant in Perinatal Psychiatry  in Stafford.

The Brockington Parent and Baby Unit is located within the grounds of St George’s Hospital. This is an 8-bed unit which accepts referrals locally, regionally and nationally.

MPFT are the lead provider for the West Midlands Perinatal Provider Collaborative and Brockington Parent and Baby Unit is one of two inpatient units. Therefore, the Consultant will play an integral role in shaping this development.

You will be responsible for providing specialist mental health services to pregnant and postnatal women on the Brockington Parent and Baby Unit based at St George’s Hospital in Stafford.  You will take responsibility for all admitted patients.

The unit works as part of a whole Perinatal Service incorporating two perinatal community teams across South Staffordshire and Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin as well as, a maternal mental health service.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the post consist of the following:

• Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management of issues relating to mental and physical health for acutely ill adult female inpatients and their infants. You will take responsibility for patients who are detained under a section of the Mental Health Act (1983), consider the patient’s capacity and consent to treatment at all times and ensure all care planning is completed in line with legal documentation.  All clinical work will be done in the context of the trauma informed and recovery approach, placing the service user at the centre of the planning and decision making.  The consultant will be available to review patients and attend the community MDT.
• Provide clinical leadership to the community / outpatient / liaison perinatal mental health team as required.
• Provide pre-pregnancy counselling to women referred to the service from within the Trust catchment area.
• Lead on the delivery of high-quality care in all settings and to be mindful of quality targets set by the Trust and those set nationally.
• To carry out the clinical duties within this post, it is a requirement that the post holder can understand the prediction, detection, prevention and management of mental disorder in pregnant and postnatal women, the inter relationship between mental disorder and pregnancy and the postpartum period, and the wider effects of mental disorder on child development and the mother-infant relationship.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) 
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people. 

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.  

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications