Perinatal Senior Community Practitioner

Job overview

Are you passionate about supporting women, birthing people, and families during the perinatal period? Do you have the clinical expertise and leadership skills to help deliver high-quality perinatal mental health care? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Senior Perinatal Community Practitioner to join our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team. Based primarily within the York and Selby locality, you will provide specialist assessment, intervention, and support for women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and up to the baby's first year.

As a senior team member, you will work closely with families, maternity services, primary care, and partner agencies to deliver person-centred care. You will also contribute to service development, promote best practice, and support colleagues in providing excellent care.

Although mainly based in York and Selby, the role requires travel across the Trust footprint to support service delivery, attend meetings, training, and development opportunities.

We are committed to staff development and offer access to specialist perinatal mental health training, leadership programmes, and ongoing professional development to support career progression.

Applicants must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the point of application.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Perinatal Community Practitioner, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality specialist mental health care to women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during the perinatal period.

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertaking specialist assessments
• Developing, implementing, and reviewing evidence-based care plans
• Delivering specialist therapeutic interventions and coordinating care within a community setting.
• Providing consultation, advice, and support to professionals across maternity services, primary care, health visiting, social care, and voluntary sector organisations.
• Working collaboratively with women, birthing people, families, carers, and partner agencies to promote positive outcomes for both parent and infant.
• Contributing to safeguarding processes and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of service users, infants, and families.
• Acting as a lead professional where appropriate and maintaining responsibility for a defined caseload of service users with complex needs.
• Ensuring care is delivered in a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, person-centred, and inclusive manner that values diversity and promotes equality.
• Contributing to service development, quality improvement projects, audit activity, and the implementation of evidence-based practice

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, we are committed to creating a compassionate, inclusive, and supportive workplace where our staff can thrive. As a valued member of our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team, you will be joining a service that is passionate about improving outcomes for women, birthing people, babies, and families during the perinatal period.

We recognise that our staff are our greatest asset and are committed to supporting your wellbeing, professional development, and career aspirations.

We offer:

• A welcoming, supportive, and highly skilled multidisciplinary team environment where collaboration and shared learning are actively encouraged.
• Access to specialist perinatal mental health training, ongoing professional development, leadership programmes, and opportunities to develop expertise within a nationally recognised specialist service.
• Excellent opportunities for career progression within a forward-thinking and innovative NHS Trust.
• Regular clinical supervision, reflective practice, and support from experienced senior clinicians and leaders.
• Opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, research, and workforce development projects.
• A comprehensive staff wellbeing offer
• The opportunity to work across a diverse geography, predominantly within the York and Selby locality, while gaining wider experience through collaboration across the Trust footprint.

We are looking for:

• A qualified mental health professional (RMN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist) with current registration and at least 18 months post-qualifying experience.
• Strong communication, assessment, and risk management skills.
• Significant post-registration experience, ideally in perinatal, maternal, or adult mental health.
• A compassionate, non-judgmental approach and a commitment to holistic, family-focused care.

Please attached job description and person specification for full details.

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

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.