Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Midwife with a specialist interest in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health to join the Bridge Team. Perinatal Mental Health remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the perinatal period, with mental health problems affecting 1 in 4 women in the perinatal period. As Perinatal Mental Health Midwife you will take a key role in advocating for parents with perinatal mental health difficulties to ensure they received effective care, this will involve liaison with specialist and voluntary services and will require excellent communication skills. The post holder will be responsible for completing initial assessments, onward referrals into specialist services and providing targeted support. You should have an understanding of mental health conditions that can impact the maternity journey, be dynamic, well organised and an innovative practitioner with a passion for community based perinatal mental health care.

Main duties of the job

To act as a resource and advocate for all clients and staff within the Directorate in relation to Mental Health matters.

·         To ensure that all Trust Staff are proactive in promoting positive mental health and understand the links to nutrition, physical activity and harm reducing behaviour as part of the wider Public Health agenda.

·         To be fully conversant with the Mental Health pathways.

·         Through management of referrals, develop skills and knowledge necessary to ensure pregnant women with mental health problems are managed in the most appropriate

·         To explore opportunities to work with agencies to cascade the knowledge of the importance of positive maternal/parental and infant relationships.

·         To contribute to Training, Learning and Development Strategy in the Division.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.