Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

The Tower Hamlets Perinatal Community Team is a specialist mental health team that supports women and birthing people in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health difficulties using a multi-disciplinary approach. As a specialist service, it takes on complex cases in secondary mental health services.  The Perinatal Community Team has close links with the East London Mother and Baby Unit.

The successful post holder will be passionate about Perinatal mental health, and have experience in taking full bio-psychosocial assessment, possess safe risk assessment skills and be able to manage their time effectively in holding their own caselaod, provide duty cover for the service when required.  The post holder will supervise junior staff as well as provide teaching to the midwives.

Main duties of the job

To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:

• Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and ongoing reviews
• Training other staff
• Joint work with other staff within the team and also external.
• Advice and consultation to other staff
• Facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriate
• Liaison work with maternity services
• Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
• Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:

• Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and ongoing reviews
• Training other staff
• Joint work with other staff within the team and also external.
• Advice and consultation to other staff
• Facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriate
• Liaison work with maternity services
• Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
• Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality