Job summary
Aim of the role
As a key member of the Start for Life Workforce Pilot, the post holder will work to receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby, promoting positive attachment via 121 supports, intervention of referred children/families, via video intervention, and supporting groups. The post holder will:
To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. To support the existing Mental Health services within Primary Care and act as a bridge for families and young infants within 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 other relevant staff Provide a professional assessment and treatment service to clients referred.
Accountable, under supervision, for own clinical actions as a provider of a specialist psychological intervention
Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we
receive sufficient applications for the role.
Main duties of the job
- To deliver effective strategic and operational and clinical delivery in line with expectation of their Job Description and model of practice within the workforce Pilot .
- To support through practice the development of the pilot working in line with with national policies and locally identified health needs within defined role.
- To support delivery of service transformation in line with role requirements and development of integrated clinical care pathways in response to latest evidence-based practice.
- To work with a range of processes and systems, across the service to support the effective running of the service and clinical care pathways.
- To work within a culture in which innovative ideas can flourish and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver support effectively.
- To always act as a positive role model and advocate both for individual staff and the THGPCG.
This is a fixed term contract role ending in March 2025
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 best practice 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 those with an infant up to one year old.
To work with colleagues to establish a clear process and criteria for receiving referrals to undertake direct 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 to their 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 would be a liaison link/joint worker between the services.
To assist in setting up structures that allows the dissemination of knowledge and skills regarding working with perinatal service users in inpatient and community services.
To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of dangerousness, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
To be mindful of the needs of women, children, young people, families and individuals from a wide range 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 multi-disciplinary 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 mental Health.
To be responsible for monitoring and recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating highly 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 best practice 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 those with an infant up to one year old.
To work with colleagues to establish a clear process and criteria for receiving referrals to undertake direct 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 to their 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 would be a liaison link/joint worker between the services.
To assist in setting up structures that allows the dissemination of knowledge and skills regarding working with perinatal service users in inpatient and community services.
To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of dangerousness, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
To be mindful of the needs of women, children, young people, families and individuals from a wide range 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 multi-disciplinary 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 mental Health.
To be responsible for monitoring and recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating highly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients e.g., patients, families and carers, other professionals orally and in writing.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of evidence-based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health, to include knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Evidence of networking with the field of perinatal mental health.
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register.
- Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to implement evidence-based practice and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
- Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence, to use supervision effectively.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of evidence-based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health, to include knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Evidence of networking with the field of perinatal mental health.
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register.
- Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to implement evidence-based practice and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
- Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence, to use supervision effectively.
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
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
