# Perinatal Mental Health Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-mental-health-nurse/23ba4c41-ee9d-4cfd-a8e0-b104aa8cbb90 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-mental-health-nurse/23ba4c41-ee9d-4cfd-a8e0-b104aa8cbb90.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, St Mary's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa, pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 30 hours per week (22.5, 30 or 37.5 hours per week) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-25T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-11T11:11:31.168Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Northamptonshire/Northamptonshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8236172 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8236172?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Northamptonshire Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service provides assessment and treatment to women experiencing or at an increased chance of experiencing a moderate to severe mental health condition during pregnancy and up to the child’s 1st birthday. The service provides assessment and high quality evidence based interventions to an increasing number of women in Northamptonshire in line with the 5 Year Forward View and NHS Long Term Plan. ### Main duties of the job We have an opportunity for two Band 6 roles as a Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner to cover Maternity Leave (1 x 0.6 wte and 1 x 1.0 wte or 2 x 0.8 wte). Please state on your application your preferred hours. We are looking to recruit two Mental Health Nurses with significant experience who have a passion for delivering evidence based interventions. Applicants will need to have a genuine interest in Perinatal Mental Health and the development of the service, excellent communication skills, the ability to provide supervision to junior staff and mentorship to students. The Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service also offers pre-conception advice for woman with a known mental illness wishing to conceive and provide training and education to professionals alongside experts by experience. Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable as is knowledge of Perinatal Mental Health Conditions, prevalence rates, treatment interventions and Safeguarding Policies and Procedures. A keen interest and passion for working with women and their families is a must, as is the ability to work closely with a range of professionals from health visiting, Maternity, Children’s Services and the Third Sector. If you want to work as part of our expanding specialised multi-professional team, we want to hear from you. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document. ### 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** - Experience working with women with serious mental illness - Experience of risk assessment and risk management - Experience of undertaking detailed mental health assessments and developing care plans - Experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working including with statutory agencies - Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems **Desirable** - Experience of working with women in the perinatal period - Experience of liaison working with obstetrics and maternity services - Experience of previous innovative practice, leading change or service development - Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs ### Qualification **Essential** - RMN qualification and evidence of current registration on NMC register - Qualification to degree level or equivalent - Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people or willingness to undertake - Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake **Desirable** - Specialist training in perinatal and infant mental health ### Skills & Knowledge **Essential** - Specialist knowledge of perinatal mental health conditions and interventions or willingness to undertake training. - Specialist knowledge in attachment and infant mental health or willingness to undertake training. - Ability to provide specialist assessments and interventions to women in the perinatal period/willing to undertake training **Desirable** - Knowledge regarding risk within the perinatal period, red flags and MBRRACE-UK confidential enquiries in to maternal deaths - Knowledge of National policy and service development issues relating to perinatal mental health ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 568.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10590985) - [your guide to nhft (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3047) ## 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.