Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Care co-ordinator - Community Perinatal Mental Health Team

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Care Co-Ordinator - Community Perinatal Mental Health Team

Full time - 37.5 hours (part-time hours considered) - 5 posts.

Permanent posts

Specialist Mother and Baby Mental Health Service (SMABS) is a community perinatal mental health service commissioned with the Bradford District Care Foundation Trust (BDCFT). We cover the catchment area of Bradford, Airedale and Craven there are approximately 8,000 live births per year. The main maternity hospital sites being Bradford (6,000 births) and Airedale (2,000 births).

We are currently looking to recruit experienced and highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health professionals/practitioners to join our team with a specialist interest in improving care for women and their families in the area. Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable; a keen interest in this specialist area is essential.

Main duties of the job

To be part of SMABS team and provide specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions to women experiencing perinatal mental health ill health across Bradford & Airedale & Craven, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.

Assess the impact of a parent's mental ill-health on baby and older siblings within the individual household, notifying relevant agencies of concerns if appropriate.

To work in a sensitive and attuned way with women, infants, partners and wider families that enable containment during highly emotive transition period in parental lives; to delicately balance the needs and wellbeing of the women whilst simultaneously ensuring infant health, wellbeing and safety is paramount and centred in all care delivery.

To create robust risk management plans in line with the organisational and local policy/guidelines and CPA framework

The Perinatal community mental health clinician/care co-ordinator will attend, participate and in some cases lead clinical/patient related meetings such as professionals meetings, CPA, and MDT

To support the supervision of the MDT.

To support the consultation, advice and training relating to peri natal mental health

Provide clinical consultation and advice to professionals & stakeholders as clinically indicated.

To contribute to the Service's on-going development and service delivery.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Details

Date posted

01 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

453-23-5527127

Job locations

Fieldhead CAMHS

2-8 St Martin’s Avenue

Bradford

BD7 1LG


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.

Closing Date- 27th August 2023

Shortlisting Date- 29th August 2023

Interview Date- 1st September 2023

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.

Closing Date- 27th August 2023

Shortlisting Date- 29th August 2023

Interview Date- 1st September 2023

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oProfessional Qualification (RMN, Social Work, Occupational Therapist) to degree level or equivalent.
  • oMaintains current registration with the NMC or HCPC
  • oMinimum requirement of two years post basic training.

Desirable

  • Psychological Therapy Qualification in a relevant modality

Experience

Essential

  • oCan demonstrate skills in assessing and managing people experiencing mental health problems
  • oWorking within an integrated multi-disciplinary environment and co-working with other teams and professions within team meetings, case conferences and professional meetings

Desirable

  • Experience of working with Peri Natal Mental Health Problems, substance misuse and/or emotional dysregulation.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oProfessional Qualification (RMN, Social Work, Occupational Therapist) to degree level or equivalent.
  • oMaintains current registration with the NMC or HCPC
  • oMinimum requirement of two years post basic training.

Desirable

  • Psychological Therapy Qualification in a relevant modality

Experience

Essential

  • oCan demonstrate skills in assessing and managing people experiencing mental health problems
  • oWorking within an integrated multi-disciplinary environment and co-working with other teams and professions within team meetings, case conferences and professional meetings

Desirable

  • Experience of working with Peri Natal Mental Health Problems, substance misuse and/or emotional dysregulation.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Fieldhead CAMHS

2-8 St Martin’s Avenue

Bradford

BD7 1LG


Employer's website

https://www.bdct.nhs.uk/current-vacancies/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Fieldhead CAMHS

2-8 St Martin’s Avenue

Bradford

BD7 1LG


Employer's website

https://www.bdct.nhs.uk/current-vacancies/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Team Leader

Minna Ylatalo

minna.ylatalo@bdct.nhs.uk

07860528417

Details

Date posted

01 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

453-23-5527127

Job locations

Fieldhead CAMHS

2-8 St Martin’s Avenue

Bradford

BD7 1LG


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