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Community Perinatal Parent Infant Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 30 April 2025

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Job summary

Band 4 Progression post - post holder could go up to band 5 once experience, skills and competencies completed

30 hours per week

Location covered by post; East Hampshire

The Community Perinatal Mental Health Service currently has an exciting opportunity to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic parent infant practitioner to join the Team. The parent infant practitioner role is a pivotal one within the multidisciplinary perinatal team with a varied and diverse profile of interventions offered to women/birthing people and their families at a very crucial time of the parent and child life. This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance family wellbeing within this mental health specialist area

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Perinatal Community Mental Health Team provides mental health support and services for women/birthing people and their families during pregnancy and up to 24 months after birth. The team prioritizes women/birthing people with moderate to severe and complex mental health needs. The service also provides consultation for advice, information and signposting for women/birthing people with a less severe mental illness in the perinatal period to primary care providers including GPs 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/birthing people and their families

Main duties of the job

Your main responsibilities would be to work as a team player

Provide practical support to antenatal and postnatal women birthing people in the community

Support women birthing people in enhancing the attachment and bonding process

Always provide a high quality of care and emotional support

Provide families with best practice in baby care

Provide advice and support on all aspects of baby care

Participate in assessment of needs planning implementation and evaluation of care programmes for women birthing people and their babies

Maintain confidentiality and adhere the Trusts Policies and Procedures

Help supporting families to understand baby's perspective

You will have opportunity to work in a supportive and highly skilled Parent infant practitioner cohort within the wider perinatal multidisciplinary team

You will be expected to visit women birthing people in their own homes or at other premises therefore, car driver is essential for this role. You will need to be able to work autonomously in the community and use your own initiative

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Date posted

15 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year Based on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

348-SW-7777

Job locations

Fareham Community Hospital

Brook Lane, Sarisbury Green

Fareham

Hampshire

SO31 7DQ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma in Childcare and Education (NNEB) *
CACHE Level 3 *
Early Years Diploma *
Diploma in Childcare Studies (BTEC)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma in Childcare and Education (NNEB) *
CACHE Level 3 *
Early Years Diploma *
Diploma in Childcare Studies (BTEC)

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.