# Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-clinical-nurse-specialist/92db057d-f75a-41bd-9c42-027b7af4752b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-clinical-nurse-specialist/92db057d-f75a-41bd-9c42-027b7af4752b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust - **Location:** Springfield University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 11 months (Until 08/09/2027) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-21T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-07T15:32:47.432Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/South_West_London_St_Georges_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Perinatal_Services/Perinatal_Services-v8350880 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8350880?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity to join the South West London and St George's Perinatal Mental Health Service. We are seeking an experienced and motivated Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join our Wandsworth sub‑team. The successful candidate will ideally have essential perinatal mental health experience and be committed to delivering compassionate, trauma‑informed, family‑centered care. ### Main duties of the job As a Specialist Perinatal Nurse within the Perinatal Mental Health Service, you will provide a high standard of evidence-based assessment, formulation, and intervention for women experiencing complex and enduring mental health difficulties during the perinatal period. As a core member of our multidisciplinary team, you will hold a defined caseload, carry out timely assessments, deliver specialist interventions, and work collaboratively with the MDT and other services across the care pathway including maternity, HTT, inpatient units and the MBU. Your interventions will promote recovery, wellbeing, and the development of positive mother–infant relationships. The post holder will manage a defined caseload, undertake comprehensive risk assessments, and contribute to diagnostic and multidisciplinary care formulations. You will also participate in duty and triage functions, supporting the team to meet clinical and performance targets while ensuring safe and effective care. The role includes providing clinical supervision, mentoring and training to students. Collaboration with partner agencies is central to this role, and experience of inter-agency working and child protection procedures is desirable. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To have a working knowledge of the Perinatal pathway - To manage individual patient pathways to ensure high quality services and care planning outcomes are achieved - To deliver, or support the delivery of, highly specialist evidence-based assessment, care planning, treatment and review for women in the perinatal period. - To provide specialist consultation, advice and support on best practice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to one year old. - To provide case management to a caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to one year old. - To take action in respect of Safeguarding Policies and Procedures as required - Following robust assessment to recommend safe and effective care pathways, ensuring all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated - To support in the identification and reporting of deficits within current service provision. - Provide specialist nursing assessment, advice and consultation to colleagues in all the disciplines in the team. - To provide high quality written reports of any assessments undertaken, with clear plans for ongoing management. ### 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** - Considerable experience in adult mental health and community settings - Experience of working as an autonomous clinical practitioner and managing a complex case load. - Audit and research skills and ability to interpret and apply to practice - Knowledge of family/group/cognitive and behaviour therapies **Desirable** - Experience in the assessment and treatment of Perinatal mental health - Experience in children’s nursing ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - Proven ability working with adult women with mental health problems. - The ability to assess, plan and implement care programmes for adults presenting with complex difficulties/disorders - Management of case load by prioritising need and urgency - Excellent communication skills both written and verbal **Desirable** - Clinical skills working with Perinatal women - The ability to apply in practice interventions based in different theoretical frameworks e.g. psychodynamic (individual and/or group) family/systems, behavioural and cognitive. ### Training & Qualification **Essential** - NMC registered - Educated to degree level or equivalent. - Hold a teaching qualification to educate midwives GP’s and fellow mental health practitioners’ on perinatal risk issues. **Desirable** - Management Qualification - Additional Specialist training, e.g. Diploma in Perinatal Mental Health - Supervision Training ## Documents - [trust values (pdf, 785.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2069) - [staff benefits (pdf, 239.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2318) - [swlstg diversity (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2314) - [swlstg privacy notice (pdf, 106.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2510) - [dbs information for candidates (pdf, 109.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=627) - [anti racism values into actions (pdf, 815.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2865) - [perinatal clinical nurse specialist jd (pdf, 353.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10676247) ## 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.