Job overview
The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for motivated and dynamic Band 7 Nurses to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term basis. This role is ideal for individuals seeking to develop their clinical expertise and leadership skills within the specialist field of perinatal mental health.
The postholder (1.0 WTE) will be based in the Hammersmith and Fulham Borough, providing maternity leave cover. This presents an excellent opportunity for a one-year secondment for those wishing to broaden their experience and explore new professional challenges within West London NHS Trust.
Our service operates across three main sites: St Bernard’s Hospital (Ealing PMHS), Hounslow House (Hounslow PMHS), and Hammersmith Hospital (Hammersmith & Fulham PMHS). The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Team collaborates closely with a range of partner agencies, including community mental health services, maternity units, children’s centres, and Mother and Baby Units.
As the service transitions towards greater on-site working, there is an expectation that staff will maintain a regular office presence to support effective collaboration, supervision, and team cohesion.
Main duties of the job
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·Ensuring women (age 18+) who are pregnant and booked for delivery and/or have infants under twenty-four monthsreceive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs and these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.
·Actively liaising with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals’ meetings.
·Efficiently managing a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in community sites (children’s centres), joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals, home visits and care planning meetings.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
1. •RMN qualification and evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent (AF)
2. •Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice (AF)
3. •ENB 998 or equivalent practice / placement educator course (AF)
Desirable criteria
4. •Educated to degree level or equivalent (AF)
5. •Dual qualified as RGN, Midwife or Health Visitor (AF)
6. •Specialist training in perinatal and/or infant mental health (AF)
7. •Clinical supervision training (AF)
8. •Qualification / training in additional specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions (AF)
Experience
Essential criteria
9. •Evidence of networking within the Perinatal specialty
10. •Experience working with women with serious mental illness
11. •Significant post qualification experience working in mental health services
12. •Experience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
13. •Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
14. •Experience of undertaking complex mental health and mental state, risk and needs assessments
15. •Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Desirable criteria
16. •Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning for women with serious mental illness
17. •Experience of working in obstetrics and gynaecology
18. •Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
19. •Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
20. •Experience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals
21. •Experience of delivering both individual and group based interventions
Skills
Essential criteria
22. •Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options
23. •Team/self management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
24. •Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
25. •Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
26. •Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
27. •Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
28. •Ability to work effectively from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation, exclusion and stigma
Desirable criteria
29. •Computer literate to an intermediate level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
30. •Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry
31. •Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
32. •Up to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
33. •Knowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
34. •Understanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to Child Protection and Children in Need
35. •Knowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
36. •Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
37. •Ability to demonstrate to empathise towards individuals with a mental health problem as well as show a positive attitude towards mental health care
38. •Able to work seamlessly with other professional groups
39. •Ability to deal with stress appropriately and work under pressure
40. •Commitment to life-long learning
41. •Good attendance record