Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly
ambitious, innovative, energetic, friendly, and high achieving 0-19 Public
Health Nursing Service (PHNS) to support the delivery of the Start for
Life/Family Hubs programme of work. This is
a fixed term post until March 2025 to develop and support the transformation
and delivery of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health support services to families
across Barnsley.We recognise that our greatest asset is our
employees, which is why for successful nursing candidates we will recognise
your NHS continuous service for the purposes of annual leave and sickness
absence, and you can continue to access the NHS Pension Scheme if you are an
existing scheme member.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly
motivated individual who is keen to be involved in the transformation and
delivery of perinatal and infant mental health support services across
Barnsley. The post holder will work
in collaboration with others to improve perinatal and infant mental health
service provision for families. The emphasis will be on early intervention,
prevention of mental health difficulties, and the promotion of positive
relationships between parents and their infants.
Main duties of the job
In the
role as Specialist Health Visitor -Perinatal and Infant Mental Health you will
support the key strand of the Start for
Life/Family Hub Programme to improve perinatal mental health and parent-infant
relationships.
lead on perinatal and infant mental
health-based projects, provide clinical advice and supervision, and take on an
education, training, and consultation role across multi-agency teams to improve emotional health and wellbeing
outcomes for children, young people and families.
This will be crucial in driving and supporting
integrated approaches to ensure a continuum of service delivery between
universal and more specialised services with a focus upon mental and emotional
health improvement, prevention of mental health problems and early intervention
when problems arise.
About us
Why its great to work in Barnsley.
Barnsley
is a place of possibilities. Our Barnsley 2030 Strategy details how we will
work together to make Barnsley the best place it can be. This is an exciting
time to join us, and the team has strong working relationships
with internal and external stakeholders, making our work more effective in
meeting the needs of our population and tackling health inequalities.
Here at
Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork,
excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. Our 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service is
rated Outstanding by CQC. As part of our team, you can be
sure well do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. We offer a
full induction programme, and excellent training packages to enable you to have
the right skills to do your job, including regular supervision to help you
recognise your continued professional development needs and support you to
achieve your potential.
We offer
working conditions that are flexible and agile that support good life work
balance. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can
take pride in improving lives. There is so much happening in our thriving
Borough and your talent and skills will help make Barnsley a place of
possibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Specialist Health Visitor Perinatal and Infant Mental Health will be responsible for developing and leading Perinatal and Infant Mental Health services across the health and care system. The emphasis will be on providing clinical leadership across multiagency teams to ensuring the children and family workforce deliver effective mental health care to mothers, fathers, parents and their infants, thereby increasing early intervention, prevention of mental health difficulties, and the promotion of positive relationships between parents and their infants.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Specialist Health Visitor Perinatal and Infant Mental Health will be responsible for developing and leading Perinatal and Infant Mental Health services across the health and care system. The emphasis will be on providing clinical leadership across multiagency teams to ensuring the children and family workforce deliver effective mental health care to mothers, fathers, parents and their infants, thereby increasing early intervention, prevention of mental health difficulties, and the promotion of positive relationships between parents and their infants.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- Sound evidence of learning through CPD and applying this in practice
- Training in providing clinical and restorative supervision
- Teaching/mentoring qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding
- children to level 3-4
Desirable
- Recorded Nurse Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification experience in a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- role
- Experience supporting mothers with their perinatal mental health, including children and families
- Evidence of successful experience of working with complex children, young people and families in a Safeguarding multi-disciplinary/agency context and across professional
- boundaries
- Evidence of ability to analyse information to determine and plan interventions and decide a course of action, with minimum support
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
Desirable
- Experience of delivering training to a range of health and social care professionals
General and Special Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge base of current legislation and national plans which impact on Perinatal/Infant mental health
- In depth knowledge and understanding of the Child and Family workforce and related policies and pathways
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of poor perinatal mental health on infants and other family members and links to public health and prevention strategies.
- Understanding of clinical governance and the application of research and evidence-based practice in delivery of services.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of principles and benefits of reflection and use of models and tools to enhance understanding of complex clinical practice and safeguarding supervision.
- Knowledge of care pathway development and continuous improvement of service quality and it implications for practice
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively at an advanced level, both verbally and in writing, to a range of audiences including children, young people, parents/carers and professionals
- Ability to plan and prioritise a team workload, demonstrating workload management skills to others
- Ability to establish a professional network that promotes learning and practice development for self and others
- Proven ability to transfer knowledge and skills to colleagues through training, coaching, mentoring and co-working
- Ability to provide critical reflection and challenge in supporting service improvement and delivery of quality services.
- Ability to use electronic records and other IT processes for maintaining case recording, diary management and for other systems and processes appropriate for the service and
- council.
- Ability to use information systems to evaluate and analyse practice, using evidence to inform good practice
- Ability to demonstrate professional accountability with due regard to NMC professional code of conduct
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrate a full commitment to develop information technology skills as appropriate to undertake the duties of the role
- Willing to work flexibly in accordance with policies and procedures to meet the operational needs of the council.
- Willing to undertake training and continuous professional development in connection with the post.
- Work in accordance with the council's vision, priorities, values and behaviours.
- Able to undertake any travel in connection with the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- Sound evidence of learning through CPD and applying this in practice
- Training in providing clinical and restorative supervision
- Teaching/mentoring qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding
- children to level 3-4
Desirable
- Recorded Nurse Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification experience in a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- role
- Experience supporting mothers with their perinatal mental health, including children and families
- Evidence of successful experience of working with complex children, young people and families in a Safeguarding multi-disciplinary/agency context and across professional
- boundaries
- Evidence of ability to analyse information to determine and plan interventions and decide a course of action, with minimum support
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
Desirable
- Experience of delivering training to a range of health and social care professionals
General and Special Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge base of current legislation and national plans which impact on Perinatal/Infant mental health
- In depth knowledge and understanding of the Child and Family workforce and related policies and pathways
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of poor perinatal mental health on infants and other family members and links to public health and prevention strategies.
- Understanding of clinical governance and the application of research and evidence-based practice in delivery of services.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of principles and benefits of reflection and use of models and tools to enhance understanding of complex clinical practice and safeguarding supervision.
- Knowledge of care pathway development and continuous improvement of service quality and it implications for practice
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively at an advanced level, both verbally and in writing, to a range of audiences including children, young people, parents/carers and professionals
- Ability to plan and prioritise a team workload, demonstrating workload management skills to others
- Ability to establish a professional network that promotes learning and practice development for self and others
- Proven ability to transfer knowledge and skills to colleagues through training, coaching, mentoring and co-working
- Ability to provide critical reflection and challenge in supporting service improvement and delivery of quality services.
- Ability to use electronic records and other IT processes for maintaining case recording, diary management and for other systems and processes appropriate for the service and
- council.
- Ability to use information systems to evaluate and analyse practice, using evidence to inform good practice
- Ability to demonstrate professional accountability with due regard to NMC professional code of conduct
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrate a full commitment to develop information technology skills as appropriate to undertake the duties of the role
- Willing to work flexibly in accordance with policies and procedures to meet the operational needs of the council.
- Willing to undertake training and continuous professional development in connection with the post.
- Work in accordance with the council's vision, priorities, values and behaviours.
- Able to undertake any travel in connection with the post.
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).
