# Perinatal Community Care Co-ordinator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-community-care-co-ordinator/d01c259b-edad-4f59-b47c-5dda3bb7e23d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-community-care-co-ordinator/d01c259b-edad-4f59-b47c-5dda3bb7e23d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Leeds - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: (6 month FTC also available) - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-22T10:21:30.654Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Leeds/Leeds_York_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Perinatal_Community_Service/Perinatal_Community_Service-v8174133 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8174133?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Perinatal Community Care Co-ordinator is a Band 6 clinician working within the Leeds Perinatal Mental Health Service, providing specialist assessment, treatment, care co-ordination and support to women experiencing acute moderate to severe perinatal mental health difficulties. The post holder acts as an autonomous practitioner managing a complex caseload of mothers and infants, supporting women and their families in the community, facilitating discharge from inpatient services, and helping to prevent hospital admission where possible. The role involves multi-agency working with health, social care and third-sector partners, safeguarding children, delivering evidence-based interventions, participating in regional duty systems, supervising junior staff and students, and contributing to service development across Leeds and the wider Yorkshire and Humber region. The role includes supporting the Duty and Urgent Assessment Team (DUAT) by monitoring the duty inbox, reviewing referrals, undertaking telephone triages and determining suitability for the service prior to assessment. This vacancy is for 2 part-time positions (22.5 hrs p/w). One permanent and one 6m fixed term post. ### Main duties of the job The successful candidate will provide specialist perinatal mental health assessment, care co-ordination and treatment for women experiencing acute moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the postnatal period. They will manage a complex caseload, undertake risk and safeguarding assessments, develop and review care plans, and work closely with mothers, infants, families and partner agencies. The post holder will deliver evidence-based interventions, support recovery and parent-infant relationships, participate in regional duty systems, chair multi-agency meetings, provide supervision and mentorship to staff and students, and contribute to service development, quality improvement and safeguarding practice across the service. The role includes supporting the Duty and Urgent Assessment Team (DUAT) by monitoring the duty inbox, reviewing referrals, undertaking telephone triage and determining suitability for the service prior to assessment. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued. All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.net Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments. To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Able to demonstrate and evidence a broad range of therapeutic clinical skills for the post. - High level of written skills and ability to compile reports, assessments and maintain detailed and accurate service user records - Car Driver ### Knowledge **Essential** - Able to demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding children and how to manage these in a specialist mental health setting. ### Values Based **Essential** - 1. Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue. - 2. Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help. - 3. Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding. ### Qualifications **Essential** - RMN or professional qualification and registration with appropriate professional body. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 360.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10476714) - [employee specification (pdf, 359.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10476715) - [reasonable adjustments (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2928) - [guide to values based recruitment (pdf, 498.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2929) ## 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.