Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Specialist Perinatal Service as a Clinical Lead for a fixed term of 12 months to cover maternity leave. The team is a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women and delivering high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants. The service has a key role in raising the profile and standards of mental health care for expectant and newly delivered mothers across universal and specialist services.
We are supportive service who offer training in perinatal mental health and a robust supervision model.
The post is to cover the Cheshire East part of our service with the base being in Macclesfield. There will be some requirement to travel to Ellesmere Port for duty and leadership cover on a rotational basis so willingness and ability to travel is essential.
We welcome applicants with a core professional qualification such as Nurses, Social Workers, Midwives, Occupational Therapists.
Shortlisting for this vacancy is due to commence on 13th April and the proposed interview date is 23rd April
Main duties of the job
To oversee the provision of expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within the MDT, which supports the staff to provide the highest quality care.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation. These principles will recognise the need to:
· Promote safe practices
· Value the aims of service users, and ethos of involvement and co-production
· Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice and shared decision making
· Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change, and recovery focussed
· Value social inclusion
The post holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in the delivery of clinical care. They will be responsible for delivering a high quality mental health service for service users and carers of the Specialist Perinatal service.
The post holder will play a role in assuring a healthy and happy team as part of the Trust quality strategy.
Working for our organisation
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.
Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.
At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.
An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or by calling 01244 393100.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Relevant professional qualification - e.g Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker
* Significant evidence of post registration experience in mental health settings
Desirable criteria
* Teaching qualification
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential criteria
* Ability to identify, assess, diagnose, treat and provide management plans for those presenting with significant mental health needs including crisis
* Understanding of adult/child safeguarding issues
* Competent in the use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
* Demonstrate the ability to work in a highly demanding environment
* Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
* Able to demonstrate imaginative and and effective use of resources
Desirable criteria
* Attachment theory and relevance to parent/infant mental health
* Competent in using databases and spreadsheets
Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups
* Undertaken a leadership programme
Desirable criteria
* Experience of presentations at local, regional, national level
* Experience of providing supervision to others and experience in a leadership role