Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

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  3 x Perinatal Practitioners (OT, Social Worker or RMN) to cover the SW team at Berkeley House in Godalming, and 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.