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Job overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Duty Practitioner within the Greater Manchester Specialist Perinatal Service. This is a newly created role designed to strengthen our duty function and ensure timely, responsive care for mothers and birthing people during the perinatal period.
As a Duty Practitioner, you will act as the first point of contact for referrals and urgent queries, providing clinical triage, risk assessment, and advice to professionals and service users. You will work closely with our multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and effective care pathways.
We have a vacancy in Cluster 2 Bolton Office.
The Greater Manchester Specialist Perinatal Service is a well-established, expert multidisciplinary community team. We provide specialist mental health care and advice from pre-conceptual medication planning, throughout pregnancy, and up to the infant’s first birthday. Our service operates Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm (excluding bank holidays).
Main duties of the job
The role of the Perinatal community mental health duty practitioner will be to undertake duty triage appointments via video link or telephone, manage access to service for a complex caseload of service users, provide practical advice and support including risk management, psychological interventions and overseeing any safeguarding issues. Liaison with external stakeholders is a crucial part of this job to ensure patient led, collaborative, high quality care is being delivered.
The role will require the successful candidate to:
- To work in collaboration with both colleagues from Adult Mental Health services and staff from other perinatal services.
- To work collaboratively, Specialist Midwifery, Children and families’ services, Early attachment services and IAPT
- The post holder will work in a variety of settings undertaking assessments, using the agreed processes of women/birthing people with serious mental health conditions who have been referred to the team.
- They will also ensure that quality and timely care is delivered at all times.
- Supporting students and new team members with information and shadowing opportunities within the duty team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements: – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 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
- fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- • Have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of relevant clinical interventions to safely provide treatment within a community setting. • Have an in-depth knowledge of relevant risk assessment tools and risk management frameworks to sustain service users’ community placements. Knowledge of childcare legislation and practice and understanding of the impact of mental health upon parenting abilities / family interactions.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the needs of women/birthing people/birthing people suffering from perinatal mental illness through evidence of ongoing formal training.
Experience
Essential
- • Have recent experience of providing mental health care, working within a community setting, or a CMHT in order to demonstrate the required understanding of Risk Management
Desirable
- Previous Experience as a duty practitioner
Qualifications
Essential
- • Relevant professional qualification – Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) qualification/ Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy/ Certificate of qualification in Social Work/ or Diploma or Degree in Social Work. E.g., Dip SW, Ba Social work • Evidence of post registration development
Desirable
- Previous Perinatal Experience Previous Experience as a duty practitioner Postgraduate module in Perinatal mental health
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This advert is for Perinatal Duty Practitioner with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Aug 2026.
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