Job summary
Are you passionate about perinatal mental health?
Do you have experience of caring for women with complex PMH concerns, and have the skills and ability to take on a specialist role at Band 7?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to cover a 12 month secondment, your role will include supporting the maternity team, facilitating training and education, working alongside the PMH and IAPT teams as well as the wider MDT.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the Perinatal mental health service.
- Provide expert care and support to women.
- Support colleagues to provide compassionate personalised care.
- Provide training to all staff within the maternity unit.
- Professional link within all mental health services for women and birthing people having maternity care.
About us
We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical / direct care practice
- Support, assist and advise women with, or at risk of, perinatal mental illness and their families to supplement the care provided by their midwives where necessary, for example working with women and their midwives to develop individual care plans, and making referrals to additional specialist support where required.
- Act as an advocate for women to ensure they get the specialist mental health care they need.
- Liaise with mental health services, and other services and partner agencies to ensure that women with severe mental illness are receiving active and effective care.
- Ensure relevant research findings relevant to mental health are integrated into the practices and policies of the hospital. Encourage and take an active role in the evaluation of new approaches to practice.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records of patients assessments, care and plans.
- Maintain competence and expertise, manage and co-ordinate emergency procedures which require knowledge and expertise whilst awaiting medical assistance.
- Abide by the Trust personnel, Nursing and Midwifery policies.
Leadership and Collaborative Practice
- Understand the impact of poor maternal mental health on infants and other family members, and the role that maternity services can play in mitigating this.
- Develop and maintain a basic working knowledge of mental health legislation, policy and guidance.
- Provide a link between midwives, GPs, health visitors, obstetricians, specialist mental health services and other agencies in relation to the care of pregnant women and new mothers with mental health problems.
- Develop comprehensive care pathways for women and families affected by mild, moderate and severe maternal mental health problems in active collaboration with specialist perinatal mental health services and other providers of health services (e.g. GPs, Health visitors, IAPT services, 3rd sector organisations).
- Have up to date knowledge of local services available to pregnant women in relation to their mental health needs.
- Maintain and develop up-to-date research-based professional knowledge and competence in accordance with NMC legislation and recommendation. Promote and provide positive professional leadership, including motivation of staff.
Improving Quality and Developing Practice
- Maintain knowledge of contemporary epidemiological, demographic, social, political and professional factors relevant to the specialist area of practice.
- Work with colleagues to ensure that there is routine screening and early identification of women with, or at risk of a mental illness.
- Work with colleagues to ensure that women and their families receive appropriate information about mental health and illness in a sensitive way.
- Continually evaluate and develop own role and competencies to meet the evolving needs of patients and the service.
- Use a reflective and questioning approach to practice, identifying potential opportunities for clinical or service changes.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical / direct care practice
- Support, assist and advise women with, or at risk of, perinatal mental illness and their families to supplement the care provided by their midwives where necessary, for example working with women and their midwives to develop individual care plans, and making referrals to additional specialist support where required.
- Act as an advocate for women to ensure they get the specialist mental health care they need.
- Liaise with mental health services, and other services and partner agencies to ensure that women with severe mental illness are receiving active and effective care.
- Ensure relevant research findings relevant to mental health are integrated into the practices and policies of the hospital. Encourage and take an active role in the evaluation of new approaches to practice.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records of patients assessments, care and plans.
- Maintain competence and expertise, manage and co-ordinate emergency procedures which require knowledge and expertise whilst awaiting medical assistance.
- Abide by the Trust personnel, Nursing and Midwifery policies.
Leadership and Collaborative Practice
- Understand the impact of poor maternal mental health on infants and other family members, and the role that maternity services can play in mitigating this.
- Develop and maintain a basic working knowledge of mental health legislation, policy and guidance.
- Provide a link between midwives, GPs, health visitors, obstetricians, specialist mental health services and other agencies in relation to the care of pregnant women and new mothers with mental health problems.
- Develop comprehensive care pathways for women and families affected by mild, moderate and severe maternal mental health problems in active collaboration with specialist perinatal mental health services and other providers of health services (e.g. GPs, Health visitors, IAPT services, 3rd sector organisations).
- Have up to date knowledge of local services available to pregnant women in relation to their mental health needs.
- Maintain and develop up-to-date research-based professional knowledge and competence in accordance with NMC legislation and recommendation. Promote and provide positive professional leadership, including motivation of staff.
Improving Quality and Developing Practice
- Maintain knowledge of contemporary epidemiological, demographic, social, political and professional factors relevant to the specialist area of practice.
- Work with colleagues to ensure that there is routine screening and early identification of women with, or at risk of a mental illness.
- Work with colleagues to ensure that women and their families receive appropriate information about mental health and illness in a sensitive way.
- Continually evaluate and develop own role and competencies to meet the evolving needs of patients and the service.
- Use a reflective and questioning approach to practice, identifying potential opportunities for clinical or service changes.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- First level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing/mentorship qualification
- Additional qualification in Mental Health or counselling
Experience
Essential
- Substantial recent experience of working as a Registered Midwife
- Experience of working with women with complex needs
- Evidence of an interest in developing specialist knowledge in the area of women's mental health
- Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups
Desirable
- Recent experience of research and audit
- Previous management experience
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- First level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing/mentorship qualification
- Additional qualification in Mental Health or counselling
Experience
Essential
- Substantial recent experience of working as a Registered Midwife
- Experience of working with women with complex needs
- Evidence of an interest in developing specialist knowledge in the area of women's mental health
- Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups
Desirable
- Recent experience of research and audit
- Previous management experience
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Queen Mary Maternity Unit, West Middlesex University Hospital
Twickenham Road
Isleworth
TW7 6AF
Employer's website
https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)