Job summary
The Tower Hamlets Perinatal Community Team is a specialist mental health team that supports women and birthing people in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health difficulties using a multi-disciplinary approach. As a specialist service, it takes on complex cases in secondary mental health services. The Perinatal Community Team has close links with the East London Mother and Baby Unit.
The successful post holder will be passionate about Perinatal mental health, and have experience in taking full bio-psychosocial assessment, possess safe risk assessment skills and be able to manage their time effectively in holding their own caselaod, provide duty cover for the service when required. The post holder will supervise junior staff as well as provide teaching to the midwives.
Main duties of the job
To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:
- Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and ongoing reviews
- Training other staff
- Joint work with other staff within the team and also external.
- Advice and consultation to other staff
- Facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriate
- Liaison work with maternity services
- Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
- Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:
- Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and ongoing reviews
- Training other staff
- Joint work with other staff within the team and also external.
- Advice and consultation to other staff
- Facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriate
- Liaison work with maternity services
- Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
- Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:
- Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and ongoing reviews
- Training other staff
- Joint work with other staff within the team and also external.
- Advice and consultation to other staff
- Facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriate
- Liaison work with maternity services
- Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
- Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- oEvidence of professional qualification in nursing
- oEvidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- oEvidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Desirable
- oEducated to degree level or equivalent oENB 998 or equivalent oClinical supervision training oQualified non-medical prescriber oQualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic/ psychological interventions
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum 4 years post qualification experience
- oMinimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- oExperience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
- oExperience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- oExperience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- oExperience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Desirable
- oExperience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- oExperience of contributing to policies and procedures
- oExperience of supervising mental health professionals and/or practice teaching
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- oAbility to provide supervision
- oAbility to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- oAbility to implement evidence-based practice
- oAbility to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- oAbility to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
- oAbility to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
- oAbility to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
- oAbility to use supervision effectively
- oAbility to work in stressful situations and demonstrate emotional resilience.
- oAbility to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
- oExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
- oAbility to work effectively from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation,exclusion and stigma.
- oIT literate
- oAbility to work autonomously and make decisions
- oAbility to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and 'virtual' team
- oUp to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- oKnowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- oUp to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
- oKnowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
- oUnderstanding of clinical governance and audit issues
- oUnderstanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to child protection and children in need
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- oEvidence of professional qualification in nursing
- oEvidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- oEvidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Desirable
- oEducated to degree level or equivalent oENB 998 or equivalent oClinical supervision training oQualified non-medical prescriber oQualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic/ psychological interventions
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum 4 years post qualification experience
- oMinimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- oExperience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
- oExperience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- oExperience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- oExperience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Desirable
- oExperience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- oExperience of contributing to policies and procedures
- oExperience of supervising mental health professionals and/or practice teaching
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- oAbility to provide supervision
- oAbility to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- oAbility to implement evidence-based practice
- oAbility to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- oAbility to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
- oAbility to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
- oAbility to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
- oAbility to use supervision effectively
- oAbility to work in stressful situations and demonstrate emotional resilience.
- oAbility to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
- oExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
- oAbility to work effectively from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation,exclusion and stigma.
- oIT literate
- oAbility to work autonomously and make decisions
- oAbility to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and 'virtual' team
- oUp to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- oKnowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- oUp to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
- oKnowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
- oUnderstanding of clinical governance and audit issues
- oUnderstanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to child protection and children in need
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tower Hamelts Perinatal Mental Health Team
Burdett House, Mile End hospital, Bancroft rd,
London
E1 4DG
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
