# Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Farnham Road Hospital (Mental Health Unit)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £41,957 - £50,387 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Monday - Friday 9-5pm
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 9-5)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-30T07:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16T08:50:43.471Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Epsom/Surrey_Borders_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health_Perinatal_Care/Mental_Health_Perinatal_Care-v8208779
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8208779?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sabp.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Do you aspire to change peoples lives for the better?

To work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners.

Ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally.

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.

We are looking for a Perinatal Practitioner (OT, Social Worker or RMN) to cover the East team at Horizon House in Epsom.

You'll be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of the women accessing the service and lead the care for a specified caseload. You'll mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.

### Main duties of the job

- Be accountable and responsible for a defined caseload that reflects the priorities of the local population and carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs, under the supervision of the Clinical Lead Nurse.
- To ensure effective daily management of referrals, including appropriate triage and assessment within specified timescales across the service.
- To ensure appropriate response to emergency referrals, supporting referrals within the acute care pathway and liaising with services involved including HTT, inpatient services and MBU.
- Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment of women with mental health problems living in the community, by providing a community perinatal mental health nursing perspective and expertise.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached Job description and Person specification for further information about the role and responsibilities.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload or service users with a range of mental health conditions
- Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment

**Desirable**

- Understanding of Perinatal mental health difficulties
- Experience of clinically supervising junior and unqualified staff and mentoring students

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree in health/social care or equivalent qualification/experience
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker

**Desirable**

- Evidence of continued professional development

## Documents

- [vacancy links (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2727)
- [carers information (pdf, 604.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2716)
- [pension scheme booklet (pdf, 5.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3102)
- [conflict of interest - esr (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3101)
- [perinatal practitioner jd (pdf, 547.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10618143)
- [sabp competency profile map (pdf, 672.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2714)
- [mindful employer information (pdf, 195.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2715)
- [benefits of nhs pension scheme (pdf, 264.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2717)

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