Job summary
Job summary
GP Care Group is delighted to announce exciting opportunities within the newly formed Waltham Forest Family Hubs Perinatal Mental Health and Parent-Infant Relationship Service. In partnership with the Family Hubs and the local authority, we are dedicated to providing a vital service for parents and babies, addressing mild to moderate perinatal and relationship difficulties. This service aims to make a lasting impact in the community and the lives of families we serve.
In addition to the roles in the above service, we are also recruiting for a Community Nursery Nurse - Infant Feeding. This role is part of the Infant Feeding Team within GP Care Group, working in collaboration with 0-19 services and HENRY to support mothers with infant feeding.
Opportunities for Growth:
This newly formed service is commissioned for a fixed term until March 2025 as a pilot programme. It presents a unique opportunity for individuals to develop their skills, whether through a secondment option from their current role or by stepping into a brand-new position. You'll be part of a dedicated team focused on making a tangible difference in the lives of parents and babies in Waltham Forest.
If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of parents and babies and are excited about this incredible opportunity to be a part of a newly formed pilot service, we encourage you to apply for one of the roles.
Main duties of the job
Aim of the role
- As a key member of the Waltham Forest Family Hub Perinatal Mental Health service the post holder willwork to receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby, promoting positiveattachment via 121 supports, intervention of referred children/families, via video intervention, andsupporting groups. The post holder will:
- To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. To support theexisting Mental Health services within Primary Care and act as a bridge for families and young infantswithin the borough of TH. This will be done through:
- Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and review.
- Training other staff
- Joint work with other staff
- Advice and consultation to other staff
- Liaison work with maternity services
- Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and otherrelevant staff Provide a professional assessment and treatment service to clients referred.
- Accountable, under supervision, for own clinical actions as a provider of a specialist psychologicalintervention.
- Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties and responsibilities
- To deliver, or support the delivery of, highly specialist evidence-based assessment, care planning,treatment and review for service users in the perinatal period within the Family Hub Programme.
- To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to Family Hub community services on bestpractice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to one year old.
- To work intensively with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or thosewith an infant up to one year old.
- To work with colleagues to establish a clear process and criteria for receiving referrals to undertakedirect work or information for advice and liaison work.
- To facilitate and Co-lead groups or 1:1 session for pregnant women who lack any attachment totheir unborn babies due to external stressor such as housing. DV, mental illness.
- Triage and signpost parents to the appropriate existing Perinatal services in the borough and wouldbe a liaison link/joint worker between the services.
- To assist in setting up structures that allows the dissemination of knowledge and skills regardingworking with perinatal service users in inpatient and community services.
- To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professionalresponsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist
- assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessmentof risk in terms of dangerousness, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, domestic violence andsafeguarding children.
- To be mindful of the needs of women, children, young people, families and individuals from a widerange of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues,sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
- To participate in multi-disciplinary ante-natal psychosocial meetings and any other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.
- To be a key lead within Pathway development and review.
- To work with Family hub partners in facilitating and delivering training programmes within scope.
- To provide expertise via supervision within the Family Hub teams in relation to perinatal mentalHealth.
- To be responsible for monitoring and recording and reporting on clinical work and communicatinghighly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients e.g., patients, families and carers,other professionals orally and in writing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties and responsibilities
- To deliver, or support the delivery of, highly specialist evidence-based assessment, care planning,treatment and review for service users in the perinatal period within the Family Hub Programme.
- To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to Family Hub community services on bestpractice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to one year old.
- To work intensively with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or thosewith an infant up to one year old.
- To work with colleagues to establish a clear process and criteria for receiving referrals to undertakedirect work or information for advice and liaison work.
- To facilitate and Co-lead groups or 1:1 session for pregnant women who lack any attachment totheir unborn babies due to external stressor such as housing. DV, mental illness.
- Triage and signpost parents to the appropriate existing Perinatal services in the borough and wouldbe a liaison link/joint worker between the services.
- To assist in setting up structures that allows the dissemination of knowledge and skills regardingworking with perinatal service users in inpatient and community services.
- To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professionalresponsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist
- assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessmentof risk in terms of dangerousness, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, domestic violence andsafeguarding children.
- To be mindful of the needs of women, children, young people, families and individuals from a widerange of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues,sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
- To participate in multi-disciplinary ante-natal psychosocial meetings and any other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.
- To be a key lead within Pathway development and review.
- To work with Family hub partners in facilitating and delivering training programmes within scope.
- To provide expertise via supervision within the Family Hub teams in relation to perinatal mentalHealth.
- To be responsible for monitoring and recording and reporting on clinical work and communicatinghighly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients e.g., patients, families and carers,other professionals orally and in writing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g., therapeutic/ psychological interventions.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness.
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register.
Other requirements
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g., therapeutic/ psychological interventions.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness.
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register.
Other requirements
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
