Perinatal Nurse Specialist

Job overview

Are you an RMN looking for an interesting and varied role where you can develop your career while providing a vital service?  No previous perinatal experience is required as full training is provided.

We can offer you full training, excellent support and the chance to be part of our well established, highly skilled and friendly team!

You’ll be keen to learn, empathetic, possess excellent communication skills, and be as passionate as we are about delivering excellent care to the parents and infants we look after.

What we offer:

• A stable, supportive and innovative working environment with the potential for future career development
• Significant training and development opportunities (we invest in our staff)
• Social hours – typically 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday with no weekend working.
• We promote a healthy work-life balance and operate a hybrid working week – typically 3 days each week working from a hospital, community setting, or conducting home visits, and 2 days working from home
• Full or part time opportunities available (minimum 4 days per week)
• Secondment will be considered.
• As a team our values of Togetherness, Responsibility, Excellence and Caring underpin how we look after each other and our patients
• Regular supportive line management and supervision

A comprehensive CPD and reflective practice program

Main duties of the job

This role is offered on a permanent basis, but we would also consider offering it on a secondment basis if this is something you would prefer.

In this role you’ll help us ensure women who are pregnant and booked for delivery, and/or have infants under 24 months, receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs, and that these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.

Using your initiative and knowledge you’ll liaise with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals’ meetings.

On a day to day basis you’ll effectively manage a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in children’s centres, joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals and care planning meetings.

As a team we cover three boroughs, Ealing, Hounslow, H&F.  The service has operational bases at St Bernard’s Hospital site (Ealing PMHS), Lakeside Mental Health Unit (Hounslow PMHS), and Hammersmith Hospital (H&F PMHS), and work in community settings (mental health unit / maternity units / children’s centres)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.