Job summary
We are looking for a Perinatal Mental Health Nurse in Acute Mental Health Care to work in the Mother and Baby Unit.
The unit aims to care and support mothers with babies under 1 year old and ladies in the last trimester of pregnancy.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will have a special interest in perinatal mental health, be enthusiastic, caring and a good team worker.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate that they can work the 24/7 shift pattern.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN\Dip (Mental)
- Live registration with NMC
Desirable
- Appropriate post registration qualification Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
Skills\knowledge
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of legislation and practise guidelines concerning Adult Acute Mental Health
- Ability to develop professional relationships with staff, service users and all other stakeholders
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Provision of effective clinical supervision
- Excellent communications skills - written, verbal and able to complete computer data entry and recording
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good team worker, able to demonstrate organisational skills
- Awareness of budgetary needs of the service
Desirable
- Ability to participate in training of others - students and other team members
- Working with people detained under the Mental Health Act (1983)
Aptitude
Essential
- Ability to identify priorities of service and the need to deliver a high standard of care
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility in approach to solutions of service needs
Desirable
- Demonstrate ability to manage ward on a shift by shift basis
Professional
Essential
- Maintains a high standard of care delivery
- Detailed awareness of current issues in Acute Mental Health
- Ability to support and educate others in their professional development
- Ability to act as a mentor to students, nurses and healthcare assistants
Other
Essential
- Willingness to develop skills in ward shift management
- Able to maintain 'Passport to Practice' portfolio
- Participation in staff supervision and ability to identify own skills deficits, and plan with supervisor Personal Development Plan to meet these
- Knowledge and commitment to Improving Working Lives
- Ability to work under pressure and within agreed timescales
- Flexibility to work on a 24 hour rota basis
- Car driver essential, or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN\Dip (Mental)
- Live registration with NMC
Desirable
- Appropriate post registration qualification Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
Skills\knowledge
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of legislation and practise guidelines concerning Adult Acute Mental Health
- Ability to develop professional relationships with staff, service users and all other stakeholders
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Provision of effective clinical supervision
- Excellent communications skills - written, verbal and able to complete computer data entry and recording
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good team worker, able to demonstrate organisational skills
- Awareness of budgetary needs of the service
Desirable
- Ability to participate in training of others - students and other team members
- Working with people detained under the Mental Health Act (1983)
Aptitude
Essential
- Ability to identify priorities of service and the need to deliver a high standard of care
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility in approach to solutions of service needs
Desirable
- Demonstrate ability to manage ward on a shift by shift basis
Professional
Essential
- Maintains a high standard of care delivery
- Detailed awareness of current issues in Acute Mental Health
- Ability to support and educate others in their professional development
- Ability to act as a mentor to students, nurses and healthcare assistants
Other
Essential
- Willingness to develop skills in ward shift management
- Able to maintain 'Passport to Practice' portfolio
- Participation in staff supervision and ability to identify own skills deficits, and plan with supervisor Personal Development Plan to meet these
- Knowledge and commitment to Improving Working Lives
- Ability to work under pressure and within agreed timescales
- Flexibility to work on a 24 hour rota basis
- Car driver essential, or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995)
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
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).
