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Job overview
Main duties of the job
To deliver highly specialist evidence based assessment, care planning, treatment and review for service users in the perinatal period.
To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to inpatient and community services on best practice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to two years old.
To work intensively with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to two years old. To liaise and work with the Trust Mother and Baby Unit. To work as a member of the MDT 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 ensure that all service users have a perinatal plan, which may require pre-birth and post-birth meetings.
To attend Safeguarding Children meetings as appropriate and provide written and verbal reports.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached the Job description and Person specification for further details on the role for the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 4 years post qualification experience and 2 years working with women with serious mental illness
- Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- Experience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Ability to provide supervision
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered mental health nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Evidence of Perinatal Mental health training and Safeguarding children practice
Desirable
- Evidence of Practice Assessor training or equivalent
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This advert is for Clinical Nurse Specialist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Jun 2026.
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