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Perinatal Senior Community Practitioner
The closing date is 30 June 2025
Are you passionate about supporting women, birthing people, and families during one of the most critical stages of life? Do you have the clinical experience and leadership skills to help shape perinatal mental health services in the community? If so, we want to hear from you.
We are seeking a dynamic and compassionate Senior Perinatal Community Practitioner to join our specialist perinatal mental health team in York. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person centred care to women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during the perinatal period (from pregnancy to the baby's first year)
Candidate must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
Main duties of the job
* Deliver specialist assessments and interventions in a community setting.
* Work collaboratively with maternity services, health visitors, GPs, social care and voluntary sector organisations.
* Provide clinical leadership and supervision to junior staff.
* Contribute to service development, quality improvement and training initiatives.
* Ensure trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and inclusive care.
About us
We offer:
* A supportive, multidisciplinary team environment.
* Flexible working options and a commitment to work-life balance.
* Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
* Access to staff wellbeing initiatives and NHS pension scheme.
Job responsibilities
We are looking for:
* A qualified mental health professional (RMN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist) with current registration and at least 18 months post-qualifying experience.
* Strong communication, assessment, and risk management skills.
* Significant post-registration experience, ideally in perinatal, maternal, or adult mental health.
* A compassionate, non-judgmental approach and a commitment to holistic, family-focused care.
Please attached job description and person specification for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current registration with an approved professional body
* Evidence of continued professional development
* For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
* 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
* Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
* Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
* Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
* Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
* Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
* Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
* Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
* Working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Quality improvement activities
* Leadership or management experience
* Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment
Knowledge
* Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients inthe designated field.
* Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
* Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
* Detailed understanding of safeguarding and its application in practice
* Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
* Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
* Research and development methodology.
* Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
* The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)
Skills
* Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team.
* Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
* Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional / care co-ordinator responsibilities
* Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
* Write reports.
* Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings.
* Use approved breakaway techniques.
* Competency in venepuncture
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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