# Senior Midwifery Practitioner - Perinatal Mental Health Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-midwifery-practitioner-perinatal-mental-health-specialist/3b8de1ff-270f-4b58-be50-c32a8d585a40 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-midwifery-practitioner-perinatal-mental-health-specialist/3b8de1ff-270f-4b58-be50-c32a8d585a40.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Southampton General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-30T12:40:49.255Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8333400 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8333400?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for detailed job description of the role. Job Type: Permanent Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week ### Main duties of the job This is an exciting opportunity to join our team for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable midwife. Are you passionate about perinatal mental health? Do you want to enhance your skills in supporting the mental health of women and birthing people throughout their maternity journey? Are you committed to providing personalised and compassionate care to women, birthing people, and families with complex social needs? Our maternity service embodies the Trust Values, placing women, birthing people, and their families at the heart of our care and we strive for excellence in everything we do, continually improving and working together. Our maternity team is dedicated to delivering safe, high-quality, and efficient care, regardless of background or needs, providing you with extensive experience across the entire pregnancy journey. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities In this role, your key responsibilities will include supporting individuals with mental health and other complex needs, improving their outcomes and experiences for the most vulnerable families, including working alongside safeguarding, domestic violence, and other perinatal mental health teams. You will bridge the services for maternity with other mental health care providers, including local IAPT providers and specialist mental health teams (MMHS, CMHT, PMHT). You will act as an expert and role model in perinatal mental health provision of care, providing clinical and professional leadership within the maternity service. Your key responsibilities will include supporting teams, developing and maintaining high standards of care for women and birthing people with mental health complexities during pregnancy and the postnatal period. This role encompasses specialist clinical, consultative, training, practice development, and strategic responsibilities. ### 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 ### Trust Values **Essential** - Patients First - Always Improving - Working Together ### Qualifications, knowledge and experience **Essential** - Registered Midwife on relevant part of the NMC register - Significant clinical experience - Evidence of continual professional development - Associate/mentorship qualification or equivalent experience - Relevant and recent clinical experience or with the ability to demonstrate significant experience in midwifery practice and responsibility for managing a clinical team - Have ability to network, initiate and develop sound relationships with senior colleagues within and external to the Trust - Expert clinical skills relevant to speciality and achievement of all midwifery competencies - Synthesise information quickly and able to communicate and escalate **Desirable** - Experience of writing protocols, guidelines and integrated care pathways - High dependency course - Team leadership role - Evidence of audit - Experience of leading change management programmes - Examination of the newborn qualification - Willingness to teach practice in a formal setting - Understanding of local and national NHS initiatives ## Documents - [job description + person spec (docx, 142.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10656631) ## 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.