Overview
An excellent opportunity awaits to become part of our dedicated Outreach Team. As part of this committed and professional team, you will work within a supportive and compassionate environment, collaborating closely with women who access our services and their families to make a meaningful difference.
The Mother and Baby Unit Outreach Service provide assessment and intensive support/treatment of women who would otherwise be admitted to the MBU, and facilitates early discharge from the MBU in order to prevent relapse and readmission.
The Outreach Service works with mums who are experiencing a severe episode of mental illness. This includes mums who might benefit from an admission to our Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) - Jasmine Lodge, Exeter - and require additional support.
Our Outreach Practitioners are based across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset and this post will cover Cornwall. They work collaboratively with other local health services to ensure mums and their families receive joined-up care, when and where they need it.
Details
Date posted: 30 October 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: C9369-25-0809
Job locations: Jasmine Lodge, Dryden Road, Exeter, EX25SN
Job responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
* Work closely with key internal and external personnel and stakeholders
* Coordinate and investigate complaints, ensuring that any clinical lessons learned are identified and disseminated to the relevant teams
* Act as a point of contact for agencies outside Devon Partnership Trust seeking information about the team, or wanting to refer to it
* Present information, some of which may be contentious, to staff groups, service user groups, carers groups and other stakeholders using a range of techniques and media
* Demonstrates communications which are professional, and act as role model for peers and wider staff group
Analytical and Judgement Skills
* Role model clinical leadership
* Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery
* Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for users of services
* Promote a duty of care to users of services; encompassing safe and competent care
* Take personal accountability for own practice; answerable for actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another professional
* Remain professionally competent by participating in own and others clinical supervision
* Demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills, not only relating to the care of users of services, but also in depth knowledge of the roles and functions of other professionals across services
Planning and Organisational Skills
* Assess, plan & deliver complex care packages to admission vulnerable & discharged women from the Mother & Baby Unit, ensuring high quality liaison with other professionals, families & carers at every stage of care
* Actively participate in multi-agency forums to ensure the identification of need and the development and delivery of integrated local services in line with local need
* Ensure that activity is delivered in accordance with agreed quality standards and to service level agreements and in line with relevant national guidance
* Work within the service Clinical Governance framework, which includes with care pathways/clinical practice; provide expert professional advice with regards to clinical care, incidents and complaints
* Contribute to the ongoing operation and development of the service
* Promote the service locally and nationally as appropriate
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care
* Promote, develop and role model high standards of clinical care
* Develop and implement care plans, ensuring active involvement of service users and their carers
* Ensure the availability of choice that meets the needs of the local population
* Provide expert advice pertaining to complex cases
* Have enhanced clinical skills
* Work closely with other teams within the Trust and the Voluntary, Statutory and independent sectors to ensure effective discharge planning which incorporates implementation of key success criteria for NICE guidance e.g. NICE 192 Antenatal Postnatal Mental Health, CPA, Information Sharing etc
* Participate in Safeguarding Adults and Children to Level 3 Enhanced as set out in Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff
Responsibility for Service Development
* Identify and implement best practice in the delivery of the MBU Outreach Service
* Undertake programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings
* Promote the NHS programme; right person has the right care, in the right place, at the right time, making the best use of available resources
* Provide clinical leadership to the Community Perinatal Teams as required
* Promote and be involved in reflective recovery focused practice
* Provide specialist Perinatal Mental Health training to staff within the Perinatal Service, DPT & to external agencies
* At all times follow Codes of Professional Conduct, ensuring all staff within sphere of responsibility also adhere to codes of conduct
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience working with admission vulnerable cohorts of people
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment
* Extensive experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
* Substantial experience of working at a senior clinical level
* Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector
Desirable
* Providing clinical supervision and managing staff
Knowledge
* Knowledge and experience of working in acute mental health settings
* An excellent understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements, CPA Process
* Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes
Desirable
* Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health
* Specialist knowledge and experience in working in perinatal mental health
Qualifications
* A professional mental health nursing qualification e.g. RMN, Nursing Degree, Qualified Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with extensive mental health experience
* Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism or commitment to work towards
* Training to Level 3 Enhanced in Safeguarding Adults, Children and Young People: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff, or commitment to work towards
* Management qualification
Analytical & Judgemental Skills
* Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions
* Ability to manage risk
Planning & Organisation Skills
* Supervisory skills
* Negotiation skills
* Ability to manage own time and that of the teams
* Ability to work flexibly
Communication & Working Relationships Skills
* Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with large groups who may be antagonistic
* Able to produce well written reports
* Ability to chair and participate in meetings which encompass complex organisational structures
Physical Skills
* Ability to be mobile across a geographical area
* Computer literacy
Other information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information see the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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