# Perinatal Mental Health Occupational Therapist/Community Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-mental-health-occupational-therapistcommunity-practitioner/8e6a223d-9700-4842-bdfb-f8d7df4db791 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-mental-health-occupational-therapistcommunity-practitioner/8e6a223d-9700-4842-bdfb-f8d7df4db791.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Bethlem Royal Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £45,953 - £54,254 pro rata per annum Incl. of HCAs - **Contract type:** Secondment: 9 months (Management is willing to consider fixed term contract.) - **Employment type:** Full time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-07T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-23T16:11:05.837Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Beckenham/South_London_Maudsley_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8262825 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8262825?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.slam.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview About the role: We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident Community Practitioner / OT to join our Community Perinatal Teams across the Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark teams. You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You will also have experience of working with women who suffer from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period. ### Main duties of the job You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector. You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To be personally responsible and professionally accountable for a caseload as part of the perinatal community team and support/supervise the work of others as required. - Co-ordinating care, communicating with other professionals involved in the care and ensuring regular CPA reviews are held as required. This will include communication with other teams for example Maternity Services, Primary care, CAMHS services, Children’s Social Care - Independently carrying out assessment, care planning and care coordination with excellent interpersonal skills, ability to listen to others’ views, respect and value individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds. - Leading pre-birth planning meetings when necessary, with community team members, midwives and health visitors and social care to coordinate, in order to provide coordinated, comprehensive and supportive care plans for women and their families in the antenatal and postnatal period. - Recognising and addressing concerns about the physical health needs of service users with long term conditions (e.g. diabetes, asthma etc.); escalating these concerns as necessary to senior members of the multi-disciplinary team. ### 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - Current registration (NMC / OT / SW) ### Skills/Abilities **Essential** - Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user’s needs, without close supervision - Skills in clinical assessment/baseline mental health assessment - Skills in risk assessment and risk management and crisis management - Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others **Desirable** - Skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback. ### Experience/Knowledge **Essential** - Community Care coordination experience - Understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice. - Significant relevant clinical experience – 2 year minimum working in Mental Health settings. - An interest in working in Community Perinatal Mental Health Team - Experience as a preceptor / mentor / supervisor **Desirable** - Awareness/knowledge of the issues surrounding social inclusion for women with mental health issues during the perinatal period - Knowledge of how mental health problems impact on their babies/child development - Experience of working with children and/or families ## Documents - [slam staff benefits (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2341) - [jd and person spec (pdf, 560.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10576828) - [happy to talk flexible working (pdf, 680.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1723) ## 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.