Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Practitioner to join our growing Parent and Child Wellbeing Team, part of the Health Visiting Service within East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

This innovative service supports parents and their babies during the perinatal period and up to two years post‑birth, promoting emotional wellbeing, sensitive caregiving, and secure early relationships. You will play a key role in delivering high‑quality early intervention to families, supporting colleagues across Health Visiting teams, and contributing to developing Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) pathways across East Sussex.

As a Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Practitioner, you will:

• Deliver compassionate, culturally sensitive 1:1 and group interventions focused on parent and infant wellbeing.
• Work with families experiencing a range of emotional, relational, or perinatal mental health challenges.
• Provide duty support: responding to queries, screening referrals, and escalating complex cases appropriately.
• Build strong therapeutic relationships with parents, promoting strengths‑based, trauma‑informed practice.
• Advise and support Health Visiting colleagues with complex cases.
• Maintain excellent, contemporaneous records and contribute to audits, service improvement, and evaluation.

Main duties of the job

• Be part of a developing, forward‑thinking Parent and Child Wellbeing Team.
• Work within a supportive, reflective and compassionate culture.
• Access regular clinical and safeguarding supervision.
• Contribute to shaping Perinatal and Infant Mental Health provision within East Sussex.
• Opportunities for training in specialist parent–infant and perinatal approaches.
• Make a meaningful difference to families during a critical period of development.

About the Service

The Parent & Child Wellbeing Team sits within the Early Help 0–19 Service and works closely with Health Visiting teams, Family Hubs, Midwifery and Mental Health Services. Our vision is to ensure that every parent and infant receives timely, accessible, and relationship‑focused support, with a commitment to equity, inclusion and trauma‑informed practice.

Interested?

If you are passionate about early relationships, emotionally attuned practice, and supporting families during the perinatal period, we’d love to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.