Senior Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Join our dynamic and compassionate Community Perinatal Mental Health Team in Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and in their postnatal period.

If you are passionate about maternal mental health, early intervention, and making a lasting impact on the birthing population and their families, this is an opportunity to grow your career in a forward-thinking and supportive environment.

This role is 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday Service. The Team’s base is at Resource house in Wokingham where you are surrounded by local cafés and shops. The role combines both remote, community and office working with hot desking bases across Berkshire.

Main duties of the job

• In this rewarding role, you will act as a Care Coordinator, delivering high-quality, trauma-informed, and evidence-based interventions to birthing people and their families at a crucial stage of life.
• You’ll undertake comprehensive specialist assessments, develop collaborative care plans, and provide or transfer into therapeutic interventions that promote recovery, resilience, and positive parent–infant relationships.
• You will be working autonomously and collaboratively within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team—including other MH practitioners’ psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health wellbeing practitioner’s nursery nurses and support workers and closely linked to specialist midwives, health visitors, other community MH teams and social care partners.
• You’ll contribute your expertise to risk management, safeguarding, and case formulation. You’ll also liaise closely with maternity services, health visiting, adult MH services, primary care, and community agencies to ensure seamless, holistic care and recovery in the community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• You must be a Registered Mental Nurse (RMN) or Social Worker to apply for this role.
• Experience of working effectively with a range of professional staff and external agencies.
• Knowledge and experience of working in a care environment and with service users who have complex mental health needs.
• Experience of working effectively in a multidisciplinary team and multi-agency environment.
• A passion for supporting patients and their families recovery in the community with strong support plans that support long term stability.
• The ability to independently manage and organise personal workload and identify in-efficiencies that support overall improvements of personal workload and of the team.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Victoria Derrett on 0300 365 2000 or email: victoria.derrett@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application 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.