# Perinatal Duty Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-duty-mental-health-practitioner/45da82bc-8c9a-44a8-bd07-69f8a09ea796 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-duty-mental-health-practitioner/45da82bc-8c9a-44a8-bd07-69f8a09ea796.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-03T09:49:51.095Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8136791 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8136791?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The specialist perinatal trauma and loss service (PETALS) are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Duty Mental Health Practitioner (Band 6) to join our compassionate, supportive and innovative team. PETALS is supporting the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and integrate maternity, reproductive health and psychological therapy. PETALS provides therapeutic and psychological support and care to women/birthing people and families who experience significant fear of childbirth (tokophobia) and/or perinatal loss and trauma, directly as a result of their perinatal/neonatal/maternity journey. We are looking to recruit a practitioner from a variety of backgrounds including Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMN), Occupational Therapists (OT) and/or Social Work. Full support and training is available for this specialist role and therefore perinatal experience is not necessarily required. Particularly if you have experience in a previous mental health duty or triage roles. This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of psychological therapy and will be part of GMMH’s Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services delivering direct care to an identified caseload. The role of the Mental Health Practitioner is to receive all calls into the service that require clinical input and be able to provide immediate support, expert advice, signposting service users to the most appropriate service, triage and initial assessments, as well as leading and co facilitating PETALS group interventions. Effective risk management and confident workload prioritisation are essential within this fast‑paced, dynamic role ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits - Pay Enhancements. - 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years - Excellent pension - Cycle to work scheme - Salary sacrifice car scheme - Wellbeing programme - Blue Light Card Discounts fuel Genie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles ### 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 ### Other **Essential** - Ability to travel to a range of locations in a timely and efficient manner. **Desirable** - Experience of working within a multicultural framework. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to utilise evidence-based clinical assessments and therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group. - Keen interest in perinatal mental health. **Desirable** - Knowledge of policy and legislation in relation to service specialism and of relevant mental health legislation. - Awareness of current evidence practice within perinatal mental health ### Experience **Essential** - A demonstrable experience working as a qualified Mental Health Practitioner - Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team. **Desirable** - Experience of working with perinatal mental health clients. - Experience of working in a community setting. - Experience of duty/triage roles. - Experience of delivering co-produced services. ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Be able to provide care and therapeutic interventions to women in liaison with multiple stakeholders to support recovery. - Ability to use own initiative and plan workload effectively responding to changing priorities. - Demonstrate trauma informed practice through sensitive, attuned communication and an ability to maintain psychological safety in all interactions. - Ability to organise time effectively. - Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals. **Desirable** - Can demonstrate involvement in and contribution to implementation of change in response to service need ### Education / Qualifications **Essential** - Professional qualification Diploma/Degree (RMN/OT/SW). - Professional registration **Desirable** - Post graduate qualification, eg, mentorship. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 144.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10434949) - [person specification (pdf, 232.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10435204) - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) ## 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.