Main area Community Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Secondment: 9 months (Fixed term ends on July 2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 334-NUR-7173950-LF
Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Mapother House Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 08/07/2025 23:59
Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Worker
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Worker to join our Southwark Community Perinatal Team. You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You will also have experience of working with women who suffer from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.
You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.
You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of theopportunities challengesthat this brings.
Working closely with your colleagues in PMHT’s, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within SLaM and London wide. In addition, you will be partof the Pan London Community Perinatal Nurses network. This is a great opportunity to supervise juniorstaff, student nurses as well asimplementing new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.
Main duties of the job
* Service and Team responsibilities
* Clinical – Individual
* To undertake all duties in line with the professional Codes of Professional Conduct, and maintain professional registration requirements for the post according to discipline/profession.
* You will manage your own caseload and work within a team but will have freedom to act within the service framework and Trust operational policies.
* To participate and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families and other agencies as required.
Working for our organisation
The Southwark Perinatal Service provides a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service to service users residing within the Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth offering assessment, intervention and treatment to women who suffer from moderate to severe mental health disorders in the perinatal period.
You will be based at Mapother House, Maudsley Hospital, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF.
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Service and Team responsibilities
Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in the setting and reviewing of therapeutic aims, objectives, standards and strategies to provide a high standard of care to clients and their families. To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is timely, accurate, up to date and of good quality and within Perinatal services & professional standards of record keeping. To work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment. To assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems. To maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of mothers, infants and their families. To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other Generic Psychiatric Teams in terms of referrals and joint work. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication within the boundaries of confidentiality, with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
2. Clinical – Individual
To assume responsibility for own case list and case management of mothers (within the range of 15-30), infants and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk. To make a clinical formulation from a standard Perinatal assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention. To assess safeguarding issues for own cases, discuss with senior colleagues where necessary and refer appropriately to Child & Families Social Services. To deliver interventions for mother and infants and their families at home or in other satellite or statutory agency areas as required. To use evidence-based interventions that will be required with this group of clients. The treatment interventions provided will normally be based on NICE guidelines and evidence based practice. To use individual and multidisciplinary team advice to planning packages of care to mother and their infants.
3. To participate and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families and other agencies as required. Design, write and share a copy of the care plan with clients, families and other agencies involved in her care. Carry out the planned intervention with minimal supervision. To maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
4.To contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager. Supervise junior members of the team from any discipline.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
* First level nursing qualification/registration RMN with current NMC (A). Degree or/and Master level in mental health studies
* Evidence of ongoing professional development ENB 998 or equivalent
* Evidence of continuing professional development e.g. relevant training
Experience
* Relevant experience in psychiatric assessment, intervention and treatment service, liaison service or home treatment team
* Experience of working with people with complex needs and mental health problems in pregnancy and the post natal period
* Demonstrable experience of working with women with depression, anxiety, psychosis and personality difficulties using evidence based interventions and NICE guidelines
* Experience of using clinical and managerial supervision to effectively provide safe, evidence based psychological interventions
Knowledge/Skills
* Demonstrates an understanding of how mood, anxiety, psychosis and personality difficulties manifest itself and the impact on mental well being
* Transferable psychological skills and knowledge relevant to work with working age adults with severe and enduring mental health
* Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment
* Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with an appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision
* Partnership worker – supports and challenges people to work together to develop pathways that enhance service quality, care continuity and economy which may go across traditional boundaries
* Knowledge of QI and evidence based models of care for acute and community services
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online
* That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
* That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
* That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
* That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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