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Job overview
NCEL Provider Collaborative are developing a pilot in-reach/outreach service from the East London Mother & Baby Unit (MBU).
We are looking for a dynamic leader who can both support and develop clinical peer support service across multiple agencies and teams and scope the future requirements of a full in-reach/outreach model.
This post is fully clinically supported by the Matron for the MBU and by the NCEL commissioning personnel in relation to service development.
The post holder will provide highly specialist, evidence-based perinatal mental health care to women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum who have previously been inpatients on the East London Mother & Baby Unit, including those with complex mental health, safeguarding, and psychosocial needs.
Main duties of the job
The role combines advanced clinical practice, comprehensive risk assessment and management, multi-agency collaboration, and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed care for mothers, infants, and families.
Working autonomously with complex and high-risk presentations, the post holder will provide specialist consultation, guidance, and support across acute inpatient and community services. They will contribute to admission prevention, facilitate timely and effective discharge planning, and promote continuity of care across perinatal mental health pathways.
The post holder will play a key leadership role within the service, providing clinical supervision, line management, and professional support to a small specialist multidisciplinary team, including Perinatal Peer Support Workers. Experience of working alongside, supervising, or supporting Peer Support Workers and embedding lived experience within service delivery would be advantageous.
The role also includes responsibility for service development, quality improvement initiatives, and maintaining effective partnerships with community mental health services and wider agencies across North Central and East London, ensuring seamless care coordination and integrated support for women and their families throughout the perinatal period.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification for full details outlining the roles and 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
Experience
Essential
- Working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
- Significant experience of management and leadership roles at band 6 level or above
- Supporting and supervising students and junior staff including recognising and managing stress in others
- Perinatal Mental Health Experience
- Undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
Desirable
- Experience in supporting Peer Support Workers
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- Mitigating and reducing clinical risk
- Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services
Desirable
- Knowledge of implementing strategy, change management and practice development
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- • Registered Mental Health Nurse
- • Masters qualification or equivalent experience
- • Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Desirable
- Leadership/Management Training
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This advert is for Senior Perinatal Nursing Practitioner with East London NHS Foundation Trust in East London Mother & Baby Unit. It is listed as a Band 7 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum Inc HCAs. The contract type is Secondment: 9 months. The application deadline is 31 Aug 2026.
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