Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Are you an inspiring leader with a passion for Perinatal Mental health care?

Or would like to find out more about working in this specialism?

Would you like the flexibility of both home and work base working? The team operates as a "Hub and spoke model" across Hampshire, IOW and Farnham - this post holder would be based at Melbury lodge as "Hub" site.

Would you like to join a team where your voice will be listened to as we continue to improve on our service in line with the NHS longer term plan for perinatal services?

The Hampshire and IOW Perinatal Community Mental Health Team provides mental health support and services for women and their families during pregnancy and up to 24 months after birth. The team prioritises women with moderate to severe and complex mental health needs. The service also provides consultation for advice, information and signposting for women with a less severe mental illness in the perinatal period to primary care providers including GP's Health visitors and maternity services as well as the women themselves.

The successful post holder will be part of an innovative service providing specialist assessment, support and treatment for women and their families. The service is an early implementer site in developing a Maternity mental health service for women and has close links with IAPT services with the aim of ensuring a clear pathway for women in terms of their health and wellbeing during the antenatal and postnatal period.

Main duties of the job

The right applicant will be responsible for educating stakeholders throughout the Perinatal Pathway providing an awareness of service structure, processes, rationale and interventions. In addition to promote and train other key stakeholder role in delivery of the perinatal pathway.

Training regards red flag presentations and high-risk patients groups will also be included. This will be via mediums including but not exclusively to seminars, conferences, team meetings, student courses.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Melbury Lodge

Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Romsey Road

Winchester

Hampshire

SO22 5DG

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Melbury Lodge

Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Romsey Road

Winchester

Hampshire

SO22 5DG

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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