# Clinical Nurse Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist/09bd7db8-3aa1-4beb-937f-733bedc3b130 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist/09bd7db8-3aa1-4beb-937f-733bedc3b130.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-12T14:12:25.962Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Perinatal_Mental_Health/Perinatal_Mental_Health-v8017932 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8017932?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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 ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [perinatal clinical nurse specialist jd & person spec (pdf, 872.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10313997) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.